CalendarAlgorithmType Enumeration
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
A date calculation for a particular calendar depends on whether the calendar is solar-based, lunar-based, or lunisolar-based. For example, the GregorianCalendar, JapaneseCalendar, and JulianCalendar classes are solar-based; the HijriCalendar and UmAlQuraCalendar classes are lunar-based; and the HebrewCalendar and JapaneseLunisolarCalendar classes are lunisolar-based, which means that they use solar calculations for the year and lunar calculations for the month and day.
A CalendarAlgorithmType value, which is returned by a calendar member such as the Calendar.AlgorithmType property, specifies the foundation for a particular calendar.
The following code example demonstrates the AlgorithmType property and the CalendarAlgorithmType enumeration.
' This example demonstrates the Calendar.AlgorithmType property and ' CalendarAlgorithmType enumeration. Imports System Imports System.Globalization Class Sample Public Shared Sub Main() Dim grCal As New GregorianCalendar() Dim hiCal As New HijriCalendar() Dim jaCal As New JapaneseLunisolarCalendar() Display(grCal) Display(hiCal) Display(jaCal) End Sub 'Main Shared Sub Display(c As Calendar) Dim name As String = c.ToString().PadRight(50, "."c) Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", name, c.AlgorithmType) End Sub 'Display End Class 'Sample ' 'This code example produces the following results: ' 'System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar............ SolarCalendar 'System.Globalization.HijriCalendar................ LunarCalendar 'System.Globalization.JapaneseLunisolarCalendar.... LunisolarCalendar '
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