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Program performs date conversion between the Gregorian Solar Calendar and the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The program also outputs the corresponding “shengxiao” (animal of the year) and “ganzhi” characters. The date range currently covered is from about 1900 A.D. to 2100 In the Lunar Calendar, a normal year has 12 months, and a leap year (run-nian) has 13 months, where the extra month is called a “leap month” (run-yue). For example, the leap month that follows immediately the 6-th lunar month is called the 6-th leap month. For those of you who don't know, a (leap) month can be a short or a long one, which have 29 or 30 days respectively. . There are 10 gan’s and 12 zhi’s. The ganzhi labeling of the year, month, day and hour of a date is a member of the Cartesian product GxGxGxG, where G = {1,2,…,60}. For example, “jia-zi” is 1, “yi-chou” is 2, and so on. The ganzhi of the j-th leap month is the same as that of the j-th month.
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