SolarTerms
Chinese solar terms, extension Date Class, Time Class and DateTime Class.
"小寒","大寒","立春","雨水","惊蛰","春分","清明","谷雨","立夏","小满","芒种","夏至","小暑","大暑","立秋","处暑","白露","秋分","寒露","霜降","立冬","小雪","大雪","冬至"
Date range from 2012-01-06 to 2030-11-22.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'solar_terms'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install solar_terms
Usage
Time.now.solar_term #get the index number of current solar term, between 0 and 23
Time.now.solar_term_name #get current solar term name in chinese words
Time.now.solar_term_time #get current solar term begin time in
Time.now.solar_term_seconds #get seconds form current solar term beginning
Time.now.solar_term_minutes #get minutes form current solar term beginning
Time.now.solar_term_hours #get hours form current solar term beginning
Time.now.solar_term_days #get days form current solar term beginning
Date.today.solar_term
Date.today.solar_term_name
Date.today.solar_term_time
Time.new(2012,11,22,5,50,07,"+08:00").solar_term \# return 21
Time.new(2012,11,22,5,50,07,"+08:00").solar_term_name \# return 小雪