Class IndianCalendar

java.lang.Object
com.ibm.icu.util.Calendar
com.ibm.icu.util.IndianCalendar
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Cloneable, Comparable<Calendar>
public class IndianCalendar extends Calendar
IndianCalendar is a subclass of GregorianCalendar that numbers years since the birth of the Buddha. This is the civil calendar which is accepted by government of India as Indian National Calendar. The two calendars most widely used in India today are the Vikrama calendar followed in North India and the Shalivahana or Saka calendar which is followed in South India and Maharashtra.

A variant of the Shalivahana Calendar was reformed and standardized as the Indian National calendar in 1957.

Some details of Indian National Calendar (to be implemented) : The Months Month Length Start date (Gregorian) ================================================= 1 Chaitra 30/31 March 22* 2 Vaisakha 31 April 21 3 Jyaistha 31 May 22 4 Asadha 31 June 22 5 Sravana 31 July 23 6 Bhadra 31 August 23 7 Asvina 30 September 23 8 Kartika 30 October 23 9 Agrahayana 30 November 22 10 Pausa 30 December 22 11 Magha 30 January 21 12 Phalguna 30 February 20

In leap years, Chaitra has 31 days and starts on March 21 instead. The leap years of Gregorian calendar and Indian National Calendar are in synchornization. So When its a leap year in Gregorian calendar then Chaitra has 31 days.

The Years Years are counted in the Saka Era, which starts its year 0 in 78AD (by gregorian calendar). So for eg. 9th June 2006 by Gregorian Calendar, is same as 19th of Jyaistha in 1928 of Saka era by Indian National Calendar.

The Indian Calendar has only one allowable era: Saka Era. If the calendar is not in lenient mode (see setLenient), dates before 1/1/1 Saka Era are rejected with an IllegalArgumentException.

This class should not be subclassed.

IndianCalendar usually should be instantiated using Calendar.getInstance(ULocale) passing in a ULocale with the tag "@calendar=Indian".

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Status:
Stable ICU 3.8.

  • Field Details

    • CHAITRA

      public static final int CHAITRA
      Constant for Chaitra, the 1st month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • VAISAKHA

      public static final int VAISAKHA
      Constant for Vaisakha, the 2nd month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • JYAISTHA

      public static final int JYAISTHA
      Constant for Jyaistha, the 3rd month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • ASADHA

      public static final int ASADHA
      Constant for Asadha, the 4th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • SRAVANA

      public static final int SRAVANA
      Constant for Sravana, the 5th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • BHADRA

      public static final int BHADRA
      Constant for Bhadra, the 6th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • ASVINA

      public static final int ASVINA
      Constant for Asvina, the 7th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • KARTIKA

      public static final int KARTIKA
      Constant for Kartika, the 8th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • AGRAHAYANA

      public static final int AGRAHAYANA
      Constant for Agrahayana, the 9th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • PAUSA

      public static final int PAUSA
      Constant for Pausa, the 10th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • MAGHA

      public static final int MAGHA
      Constant for Magha, the 11th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • PHALGUNA

      public static final int PHALGUNA
      Constant for Phalguna, the 12th month of the Indian year.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IE

      public static final int IE
      Constant for the Indian Era. This is the only allowable ERA value for the Indian calendar.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

  • Constructor Details

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar()
      Constructs a IndianCalendar using the current time in the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar(TimeZone zone)
      Constructs a IndianCalendar based on the current time in the given time zone with the default FORMAT locale.
      Parameters:
      zone - the given time zone.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar(Locale aLocale)
      Constructs a IndianCalendar based on the current time in the default time zone with the given locale.
      Parameters:
      aLocale - the given locale.
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar(ULocale locale)
      Constructs a IndianCalendar based on the current time in the default time zone with the given locale.
      Parameters:
      locale - the given ulocale.
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar(TimeZone zone, Locale aLocale)
      Constructs a IndianCalendar based on the current time in the given time zone with the given locale.
      Parameters:
      zone - the given time zone.
      aLocale - the given locale.
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar(TimeZone zone, ULocale locale)
      Constructs a IndianCalendar based on the current time in the given time zone with the given locale.
      Parameters:
      zone - the given time zone.
      locale - the given ulocale.
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar(Date date)
      Constructs a IndianCalendar with the given date set in the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.
      Parameters:
      date - The date to which the new calendar is set.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar(int year, int month, int date)
      Constructs a IndianCalendar with the given date set in the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.
      Parameters:
      year - The value used to set the calendar's YEAR time field.
      month - The value used to set the calendar's MONTH time field. The value is 0-based. e.g., 0 for January.
      date - The value used to set the calendar's DATE time field.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • IndianCalendar

      public IndianCalendar(int year, int month, int date, int hour, int minute, int second)
      Constructs a IndianCalendar with the given date and time set for the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.
      Parameters:
      year - The value used to set the calendar's YEAR time field.
      month - The value used to set the calendar's MONTH time field. The value is 0-based. e.g., 0 for January.
      date - The value used to set the calendar's DATE time field.
      hour - The value used to set the calendar's HOUR_OF_DAY time field.
      minute - The value used to set the calendar's MINUTE time field.
      second - The value used to set the calendar's SECOND time field.
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      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

  • Method Details

    • handleGetExtendedYear

      protected int handleGetExtendedYear()
      Returns the extended year defined by the current fields. This will use the EXTENDED_YEAR field or the YEAR and supra-year fields (such as ERA) specific to the calendar system, depending on which set of fields is newer.
      Specified by:
      handleGetExtendedYear in class Calendar
      Returns:
      the extended year
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • handleGetYearLength

      protected int handleGetYearLength(int extendedYear)
      Returns the number of days in the given extended year of this calendar system. Subclasses should override this method if they can provide a more correct or more efficient implementation than the default implementation in Calendar.
      Overrides:
      handleGetYearLength in class Calendar
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • handleGetMonthLength

      protected int handleGetMonthLength(int extendedYear, int month)
      Returns the number of days in the given month of the given extended year of this calendar system. Subclasses should override this method if they can provide a more correct or more efficient implementation than the default implementation in Calendar.
      Overrides:
      handleGetMonthLength in class Calendar
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • handleComputeFields

      protected void handleComputeFields(int julianDay)
      Subclasses may override this method to compute several fields specific to each calendar system. These are:
      • ERA
      • YEAR
      • MONTH
      • DAY_OF_MONTH
      • DAY_OF_YEAR
      • EXTENDED_YEAR
      Subclasses can refer to the DAY_OF_WEEK and DOW_LOCAL fields, which will be set when this method is called. Subclasses can also call the getGregorianXxx() methods to obtain Gregorian calendar equivalents for the given Julian day.

      In addition, subclasses should compute any subclass-specific fields, that is, fields from BASE_FIELD_COUNT to getFieldCount() - 1.

      The default implementation in Calendar implements a pure proleptic Gregorian calendar.

      Overrides:
      handleComputeFields in class Calendar
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • handleGetLimit

      protected int handleGetLimit(int field, int limitType)
      Subclass API for defining limits of different types. Subclasses must implement this method to return limits for the following fields: 
      ERA
YEAR
MONTH
WEEK_OF_YEAR
WEEK_OF_MONTH
DAY_OF_MONTH
DAY_OF_YEAR
DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH
YEAR_WOY
EXTENDED_YEAR
      Specified by:
      handleGetLimit in class Calendar
      Parameters:
      field - one of the above field numbers
      limitType - one of MINIMUM, GREATEST_MINIMUM, LEAST_MAXIMUM, or MAXIMUM
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • handleComputeMonthStart

      protected int handleComputeMonthStart(int year, int month, boolean useMonth)
      Returns the Julian day number of day before the first day of the given month in the given extended year. Subclasses should override this method to implement their calendar system.
      Specified by:
      handleComputeMonthStart in class Calendar
      Parameters:
      year - the extended year
      month - the zero-based month, or 0 if useMonth is false
      useMonth - if false, compute the day before the first day of the given year, otherwise, compute the day before the first day of the given month
      Returns:
      the Julian day number of the day before the first day of the given month and year
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.

    • getRelatedYearDifference

      @Deprecated protected final int getRelatedYearDifference()
      Deprecated.
      This API is ICU internal only.
      Overrides:
      getRelatedYearDifference in class Calendar
      Status:
      Internal. This API is ICU internal only.

    • getType

      public String getType()
      [icu] Returns the calendar type name string for this Calendar object. The returned string is the legacy ICU calendar attribute value, for example, "gregorian" or "japanese".

      See type="old type name" for the calendar attribute of locale IDs at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Key_Type_Definitions

      Overrides:
      getType in class Calendar
      Returns:
      legacy calendar type name string
      Status:
      Stable ICU 3.8.