--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Lennart Lopin" <lenni_lop@...> wrote:

>
> Dear Bhante,
>
> Maybe this one can help:
>

http://www.nibbanam.com/pali_language_tools.htm#Buddhist%20Calendar%20Library

>
> regards,
>
> Lennart
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bh.santi
> To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:33 AM
> Subject: [Pali] What month is this in Pali?
>
>
> Dear Friends,
>

> I'm particularly not sure about whether this is Phagguna or Citta
> maasa: does the new month begin on the new moon or on the full moon?
>
> Thanks, Bhikkhu Santi.

Thankyou very much Lennart,

that's a very handy little tool you made. It clearly tells me what
month it is but I noticed that the way it calculates the Uposatha is
not the traditional way.

The difference is this:

it calculates the maximum and minimum segment of the moon and takes
the maximum as 'Full moon' and the minimum as 'New moon', which is
fine, but then it counts the day that the Full moon/ new moon occurs
by the Western method, i.e. midnight on Friday is 'Friday', whereas in
the Indian system midnight on 'Friday' is still 'Thursday', the new
day begins at dawnrise.

I think this would be relatively easy to fix. You can get a mozilla
plugin that tells you the time of dawnrise (aru.naggamana - aka civil
morning twilight), which is called 'Suncult'. Perhaps if you connected
up the time of dawnrise that Suncult generates to the Uposatha
calculating thingee you could make it count the day correctly. In the
meantime I will just press 2 to get the chart of moon segment vs. date
and work it out.

Thanks,

Bhikkhu Santi.