CalendarAlgorithmType Enumeration
Specifies whether a calendar is solar-based, lunar-based, or lunisolar-based.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
| Member name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| LunarCalendar | A lunar-based calendar. | |
| LunisolarCalendar | A lunisolar-based calendar. | |
| SolarCalendar | A solar-based calendar. | |
| Unknown | An unknown calendar basis. |
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, thus using 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.
using namespace System; using namespace System::Globalization; namespace CalendarTypeExample { static void Display(Calendar^ genericCalendar) { String^ calendarName = genericCalendar->ToString()->PadRight(50, '.'); Console::WriteLine("{0} {1}", calendarName, genericCalendar->GetType()); } } int main() { GregorianCalendar^ gregorianCalendar = gcnew GregorianCalendar(); HijriCalendar^ hijriCalendar = gcnew HijriCalendar(); JapaneseLunisolarCalendar^ japaneseCalendar = gcnew JapaneseLunisolarCalendar(); CalendarTypeExample::Display(gregorianCalendar); CalendarTypeExample::Display(hijriCalendar); CalendarTypeExample::Display(japaneseCalendar); return 0; } /* This code example produces the following output. System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar............ System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar System.Globalization.HijriCalendar................ System.Globalization.HijriCalendar System.Globalization.JapaneseLunisolarCalendar.... System.Globalization.JapaneseLunisolarCalendar */
Available since 2.0