LeapVariant

LeapVariant[n]

represents a repeated calendar element caused by a leap period.

Details

  • LeapVariant is typically used in lunisolar calendars, where the lunar cycles of months or days need to be periodically adjusted to maintain alignment with the solar cycles of other calendar elements.
  • Calendars that use LeapVariant elements maintain sequentially numbered calendar elements (such as months or days), and the LeapVariant element is used to insert a repeated element before or after a given number in that sequence (e.g. months sequenced as 1, 2, 3, 4, LeapVariant[4], 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12).

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

The Chinese lunisolar calendar includes leap variant months when two lunar cycles fall within the same solar month:

The modern Hindu lunisolar calendar has both leap variant months and days:

Scope  (1)

LeapVariant may be returned as a value from DateValue for any element where it applies:

Wolfram Research (2020), LeapVariant, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LeapVariant.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2020), LeapVariant, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LeapVariant.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2020. "LeapVariant." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LeapVariant.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2020). LeapVariant. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LeapVariant.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_leapvariant, author="Wolfram Research", title="{LeapVariant}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LeapVariant.html}", note=[Accessed: 28-March-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2023_leapvariant, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={LeapVariant}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LeapVariant.html}, note=[Accessed: 28-March-2024 ]}