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ccal -- display both solar and lunar calendar

Usage: ccal month [4-digit-year]
Acceptable date range: 2/1900 -- 12/2049

I wrote this short Python script is because I often need check which day is a lunar holiday, so that I can send greetings to my family/friends on time. It is based on "lunar-2.1.tgz" (1992) of Fung F. Lee and Ricky Yeung. Python (2.0 or above) is required to run it. Recent ccal (version 0.3.1) is here.

2 example outputs of `ccal` are as follows:

    

For users' reference, the original "lunar" program is here: lunar-2.1.tgz (size: 10k). It can also calculate the mystical birthday 8-Character used by most Chinese fortune-tellers. A sample output of `lunar` is:


Last updated on Mar/28/2002 by Changsen Xu.