Comments on: Japan Calendar Converter Dashboard Widget

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:19:26 +0000

Oops just read other comments and there is a site that does this, oh well shigata ga nai ne!

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:17:52 +0000

I believe today would be the old new year’s day or the beginning of spring. I would be interested to know if important dates in the Japanese year such as Obon changed when the gregorian calendar was adapted in Meiji. Is it true that the Japanese just did not have a twelfth month one year so as to adapt?
I live in Japan and would love to know what month and day it is now according to the old calendar. I have a feeling that the Japanese lost so many
things when they changed calendars. Thank you for all your hard work!

By: claytonian

claytonian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:29:09 +0000

cool idea

By: Durf

Durf — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:17:58 +0000

Should have made these into one comment: Just downloaded the widget and installed it with no problems on 10.5.2. I also played around with ATOK and noted that it will also offer a converted year if you input a Japanese era year from Meiji onward. No idea if this is something Kotoeri will also do for you, but it’s worth a shot.

By: Durf

Durf — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:12:56 +0000

Back in the dark days of OS 9 I used to use an app called こよみちゃん:

http://www.nagi-p.com/eraconv.html

This had some nice features like conversion of the old calendar dates to new ones. There’s a Windows version somewhere on that same site, too.