Buddha's birthday

[solbjerg]

Hi All

Buddha's birthday is often seen as the day of his enlightenment.

This is by default the first full moon in may.

This can differ a bit according to where you are.

For Thailand MsOutlook says 28-4-10 (this is wrong)

Some see it as the full week leading up to the first full moon in May, and seen that way Wikipedia's 21-05-10 is the first day of that week

The Thai embassy closed the embassy on 28-05-10 in reverence of Buddha's birthday this year. Usually the Thai and the Chinese are in accordance on this point I think. (543 B.C)

(some operate with a year 0 some with year 1 perhaps to confuse the issue further)

So the lunar date-keeping is hard to figure out, - same goes for the Jews and the Arabs and our Easter.

Japan has decided on a date in the Gregorian calender (8. of April).

It would be easier if if dates, measurements and temperature conformed to the same universal standard.

Cheers

solbjerg

p.s. Napoleon defeated Austria and Russia at Austerlitz - primary reason was that Austria and Russia decided on a date to coordinate their attack on Napoleon, but as Austria saw the date as Gregorian and Russia saw it as Julian - the actual dates were a week apart and the Russians first turned up a week after the Austrians had started the attack. (Russia first adopted the Gregorian calender after the revolution - Turkey in 1925 during Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk))

p.p.s. The Immaculate conception is the 8. of December - this means that Virgin Mary was either just pregnant 17 days or 1 year and 17 days (which is about the pregnancy period of a horse, a camel or a dromedary) :-)

But the birth of Jesus was decided at the church council in Nicæa in 325 A.D. and the logic was apparently not an issue. :-)

[solbjerg]

Excel command

 

Hi all

If you write =today() in Excel you will get todays date.

It is usually (except in the us) shown as dd-mm-yyyy (if you format it as a date)

Try user formatting the cell with dd-mm-bbbb

and you will get the year according to the Buddha calender.

That is now 2010+543 = 2553

Except perhaps in Burma where they use year 1 as the birthyear of Buddha.

Cheers

solbjerg

 

Hi All

Buddha's birthday is often seen as the day of his enlightenment.

This is by default the first full moon in may.

This can differ a bit according to where you are.

For Thailand MsOutlook says 28-4-10 (this is wrong)

Some see it as the full week leading up to the first full moon in May, and seen that way Wikipedia's 21-05-10 is the first day of that week

The Thai embassy closed the embassy on 28-05-10 in reverence of Buddha's birthday this year. Usually the Thai and the Chinese are in accordance on this point I think. (543 B.C)

(some operate with a year 0 some with year 1 perhaps to confuse the issue further)

So the lunar date-keeping is hard to figure out, - same goes for the Jews and the Arabs and our Easter.

Japan has decided on a date in the Gregorian calender (8. of April).

It would be easier if if dates, measurements and temperature conformed to the same universal standard.

Cheers

solbjerg

p.s. Napoleon defeated Austria and Russia at Austerlitz - primary reason was that Austria and Russia decided on a date to coordinate their attack on Napoleon, but as Austria saw the date as Gregorian and Russia saw it as Julian - the actual dates were a week apart and the Russians first turned up a week after the Austrians had started the attack. (Russia first adopted the Gregorian calender after the revolution - Turkey in 1925 during Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk))

p.p.s. The Immaculate conception is the 8. of December - this means that Virgin Mary was either just pregnant 17 days or 1 year and 17 days (which is about the pregnancy period of a horse, a camel or a dromedary) :-)

But the birth of Jesus was decided at the church council in Nicæa in 325 A.D. and the logic was apparently not an issue. :-)

[Petit]

The first full moon day in may are different time in different location.

In Thailand Myanmar and Cambodia It's in 28th of May.

[solbjerg]

Hi Petit

Yes the date can vary (one day) if locations are sufficiently far apart and the full moon occurs close to midnight.

The full moon can easily occur during daytime, but you won't see it unless you climb down a deep well (hole in the ground) and look up at the stars and the moon.

(Eratosthenes)

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/moonphases.html

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Cheers

solbjerg

 

The first full moon day in may are different time in different location.

In Thailand Myanmar and Cambodia It's in 28th of May.