Date::Japanese::Era - Conversion between Japanese Era / Gregorian calendar
use utf8;
use Date::Japanese::Era;
# from Gregorian (month + day required)
$era = Date::Japanese::Era->new(1970, 1, 1);
# from Japanese Era
$era = Date::Japanese::Era->new("昭和", 52); # SHOWA
$name = $era->name; # 昭和 (in Unicode)
$gengou = $era->gengou; # Ditto
$year = $era->year; # 52
$gregorian = $era->gregorian_year; # 1977
# use JIS X0301 table for conversion
use Date::Japanese::Era 'JIS_X0301';
# more DWIMmy
$era = Date::Japanese::Era->new("昭和五十二年");
$era = Date::Japanese::Era->new("昭和52年");
Date::Japanese::Era handles conversion between Japanese Era and Gregorian
calendar.
- new
-
$era = Date::Japanese::Era->new($year, $month, $day);
$era = Date::Japanese::Era->new($era_name, $year);
$era = Date::Japanese::Era->new($era_year_string);
Constructs new Date::Japanese::Era instance. When constructed
from Gregorian date, month and day is required. You need Date::Calc to
construct from Gregorian.
Name of era can be either of Japanese / ASCII. If you pass
Japanese text, they should be in Unicode.
Errors will be thrown if you pass byte strings such as UTF-8
or EUC-JP, since Perl doesn't understand what encoding they're in. Use
the utf8 pragma if you want to write them in literals.
Exceptions are thrown when inputs are invalid, such as
non-existent era name and year combination, unknwon era-name, etc.
- name
-
$name = $era->name;
returns era name in Japanese in Unicode.
- gengou
- alias for name().
- name_ascii
-
$name_ascii = $era->name_ascii;
returns era name in US-ASCII.
- year
-
$year = $era->year;
returns year as Japanese era.
- gregorian_year
-
$year = $era->gregorian_year;
returns year as Gregorian.
use utf8;
use Date::Japanese::Era;
# 2001 is H-13
my $era = Date::Japanese::Era->new(2001, 8, 31);
printf "%s-%s", uc(substr($era->name_ascii, 0, 1)), $era->year;
# to Gregorian
my $era = Date::Japanese::Era->new("平成", 13); # HEISEI 13
print $era->gregorian_year; # 2001
- Currently supported era is up to 'meiji'. And before Meiji 05.12.02,
gregorius calendar was not used there, but lunar calendar was. This module
does not support lunar calendar, but gives warnings in such cases
("In %d they didn't use gregorius
calendar").
To use calendar ealier than that, see
DateTime::Calendar::Japanese::Era, which is based on DateTime framework
and is more comprehensive.
- There should be discussion how we handle the exact day the era has changed
(former one or latter one?). This module default handles the day as newer
one, but you can change so that it sticks to JIS table (older one) by
saying:
use Date::Japanese::Era 'JIS_X0301';
For example, 1912-07-30 is handled as:
default Taishou 1 07-30
JIS_X0301 Meiji 45 07-30
- If someday current era (reiwa) is changed, Date::Japanese::Era::Table
should be upgraded.
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, 2001-
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
DateTime::Calendar::Japanese::Era, Date::Calc, Encode