AKICILJ: Programmable Calendar

[kiya]

In my ongoing goal of distracting myself from my catastrophic meltdown with painfully ludicrous levels of nerdery, I have been attempting to make sense of the Egyptian ritual calendar again. After acquiring sufficient beer to pad the landing, I am left wondering:

Does anyone know of software that can handle scheduling events in relationship to phases of the moon and other astronomical events? (In an ideal world, this would include the capacity to define and distinguish between twelve-lunar-month and thirteen-lunar-month years according to a ruleset.)

So, suggestions?

Comments

[ardaniel]

I believe I have a lead on a way to do this in Python, but I'm not near Cortana right now. It won't be GUI or pretty, probably, either, much like mute's solutions.

(Learning a language for this is likely overkill, given your schedule and slate of concerns and the number of coders you already know who take bribes.)

[ardaniel]

Bleah, Python dev working on that hasn't actually finished his code for the Egyptian system. KDE has a project out there trying to make KCalendar think that way, but not for event scheduling, I don't think.

You might try looking around the public iCal sharing sites for astronomical calendars, importing those into your copy of iCal, and working backwards from there. Google Calendar has public calendars for moon phase and public sunrise/ sunset that you can load into iCal, for instance.

[kiya]

I was poking at iCal and Google calendar both a bit, and I can get the moon data in fine but I can't find anything that will let me do stuff based on it. Frustrating!