This application is a simple set and forget email reminder tool that will send an email out to remind you of an event in the lunar calendar. It is useful for getting reminders for Asian parents or grandparents that celebrate their birthday in the lunar calendar or to remind you of any other lunar calendar events. You can also use this to find out your lunar birthday by entering in your western birthday with the year.
I could not find this functionality in google calendar so I wrote this application very quickly to fill in this gap. This application will work until 2050 and then it will stop working because of a limitation in the lunar conversion library I am using. Hopefully I will update it before then!
To use this app, click the log in button and fill out the form to indicate what date you would like to receive a reminder for. You can enter a Western calendar date (be sure to specify correct year) and it will track the Asian/lunar calendar date or you can just enter the Asian/lunar calendar date directly. Once you click submit, you will see your reminder show up in the table above the form and you can see when the next reminder will be sent. On the appropriate date, you will receive an email with the reminder that you have set. When you no longer want to receive the reminder, simply click delete and the reminder will no longer be sent every year.
I'm no expert at this, but I found this:
Born on Leap Month
Based on the usual chinese fortune-telling practice, people who born on the first 15th days of a leap month should be counted as born on the previous month, and people who born on or after the 16th date of a leap month should be counted as born on the month followed.
So, if you were born on 1st June, 1982, your birth month should be counted as the 4th lunar month of 1982. On the other hand, if you were born on 15th June, 1982, your birth month should be on the 5th lunar month of 1982.
Conceive on Leap Month
By the same token, if you conceive on the first 15 days of a leap month, then the month of conception should be counted as the previous month, and the rest of the leap month should be counted as the next month. Having said that, there are some chinese fortune tellers argue that the entire leap month should be counted as the previous month. The conclusion is that If you are serious about gender selection, don't choose to conceive on leap months.
If you are interested in running your own Lunar Calendar Email Reminder server, feel free to download the code at github and place one up on AppEngine for yourself. It's pretty simple if you are a developer.
If you have any problems with this application or suggestions, shoot me an email at jc@jmccc.com.
NOTE: If you get a HTTP 500 "Error: Server Error" when logging in and you are using multiple google account login, please try logging out of all your accounts or try using a Google Chrome incognito window to log in with only one account. There is a bug with Google AppEngine and multiple user accounts. Sorry!