GregorianCalendar Class
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
'Declaration <SerializableAttribute> _ <ComVisibleAttribute(True)> _ Public Class GregorianCalendar Inherits Calendar 'Usage Dim instance As GregorianCalendar
/** @attribute SerializableAttribute() */ /** @attribute ComVisibleAttribute(true) */ public class GregorianCalendar extends Calendar
SerializableAttribute ComVisibleAttribute(true) public class GregorianCalendar extends Calendar
Not applicable.
The Gregorian calendar recognizes two eras: B.C. or B.C.E., and A.D. or C.E. This implementation of the GregorianCalendar class recognizes only the current era (A.D. or C.E.).
A leap year in the Gregorian calendar is defined as a year that is evenly divisible by four, except if it is divisible by 100. However, years that are divisible by 400 are leap years. For example, the year 1900 was not a leap year, but the year 2000 was. A common year has 365 days and a leap year has 366 days.
The Gregorian calendar has 12 months with 28 to 31 days each: January (31 days), February (28 or 29 days), March (31 days), April (30 days), May (31 days), June (30 days), July (31 days), August (31 days), September (30 days), October (31 days), November (30 days), and December (31 days). February has 29 days during leap years and 28 during common years.
Each CultureInfo supports a set of calendars. The Calendar property returns the default calendar for the culture, and the OptionalCalendars property returns an array containing all the calendars supported by the culture. To change the calendar used by a CultureInfo, the application can set the Calendar property to a new Calendar.
GetEra ignores punctuation in abbreviated era names, only if the GregorianCalendar is selected in DateTimeFormatInfo.Calendar and the culture uses "A.D." as the era name, that is, "A.D." is equivalent to "AD".
The following code example shows that DateTimeFormatInfo ignores the punctuation in the era name, only if the calendar is Gregorian and the culture uses the era name "A.D.".
Imports System Imports System.Globalization Public Class SamplesGregorianCalendar Public Shared Sub Main() ' Creates strings with punctuation and without. Dim strADPunc As [String] = "A.D." Dim strADNoPunc As [String] = "AD" Dim strCEPunc As [String] = "C.E." Dim strCENoPunc As [String] = "CE" ' Calls DTFI.GetEra for each culture that uses GregorianCalendar as the default calendar. Console.WriteLine(" ----- AD ----- ----- CE -----") Console.WriteLine("CULTURE PUNC NO PUNC PUNC NO PUNC CALENDAR") Dim myCI As CultureInfo For Each myCI In CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.SpecificCultures) Console.Write("{0,-12}", myCI) Console.Write("{0,-7}{1,-9}", myCI.DateTimeFormat.GetEra(strADPunc), myCI.DateTimeFormat.GetEra(strADNoPunc)) Console.Write("{0,-7}{1,-9}", myCI.DateTimeFormat.GetEra(strCEPunc), myCI.DateTimeFormat.GetEra(strCENoPunc)) Console.Write("{0}", myCI.Calendar) Console.WriteLine() Next myCI End Sub 'Main End Class 'SamplesGregorianCalendar 'This code produces the following output. This output has been cropped for brevity. ' ' ----- AD ----- ----- CE ----- 'CULTURE PUNC NO PUNC PUNC NO PUNC CALENDAR 'ar-SA -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.HijriCalendar 'ar-IQ 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-EG 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-LY 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-DZ 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-MA 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-TN 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-OM 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-YE 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-SY 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-JO 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-LB 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-KW 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-AE 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-BH 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ar-QA 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'bg-BG 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'ca-ES -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'zh-TW -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'zh-CN -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'zh-HK -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'zh-SG 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'zh-MO 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'cs-CZ -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar 'da-DK 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
import System.* ;
import System.Globalization.* ;
public class SamplesGregorianCalendar
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Creates strings with punctuation and without.
String strADPunc = "A.D.";
String strADNoPunc = "AD";
String strCEPunc = "C.E.";
String strCENoPunc = "CE";
// Calls DTFI.GetEra for each culture that uses GregorianCalendar as
//the default calendar.
Console.WriteLine(" ----- AD ----- ----- CE -----");
Console.WriteLine("CULTURE PUNC NO PUNC PUNC NO PUNC CALENDAR");
for (int iCtr = 0; iCtr < (CultureInfo.GetCultures(
CultureTypes.SpecificCultures).length); iCtr++) {
CultureInfo myCI = CultureInfo.GetCultures(
CultureTypes.SpecificCultures)[iCtr];
Console.Write("{0,-12}", myCI);
Console.Write("{0,-7}{1,-9}", System.Convert.ToString(
myCI.get_DateTimeFormat().GetEra(strADPunc)),System.Convert.
ToString(myCI.get_DateTimeFormat().GetEra(strADNoPunc)));
Console.Write("{0,-7}{1,-9}", System.Convert.ToString(
myCI.get_DateTimeFormat().GetEra(strCEPunc)),
System.Convert.ToString(myCI.get_DateTimeFormat().
GetEra(strCENoPunc)));
Console.Write("{0}", myCI.get_Calendar());
Console.WriteLine();
}
} //main
} //SamplesGregorianCalendar
/*
This code produces the following output. This output has been cropped
for brevity.
----- AD ----- ----- CE -----
CULTURE PUNC NO PUNC PUNC NO PUNC CALENDAR
ar-SA -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.HijriCalendar
ar-IQ 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-EG 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-LY 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-DZ 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-MA 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-TN 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-OM 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-YE 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-SY 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-JO 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-LB 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-KW 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-AE 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-BH 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ar-QA 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
bg-BG 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
ca-ES -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
zh-TW -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
zh-CN -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
zh-HK -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
zh-SG 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
zh-MO 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
cs-CZ -1 -1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
da-DK 1 1 -1 -1 System.Globalization.
GregorianCalendar
*/
Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.