Mondtag – a free lunar calendar

Index:

Introduction

News

System Requirements

Download

Known Bugs

License

Tools used

Thanks

Links

Support & contact

Introduction:

Mondtag is a lunar calendar which calculates lunar phase, signs of the zodiac and interprets them.

Currently available interpretations are:

• Flower plants

• Fruit plants

• Leaf plants

• Root plants

• Gardening

• Agriculture

• Forestry

• Household

• Personal hygiene

Also included are calculation of sunrise and sunset, and Mondtag, a notification tool that shows the data of one day.

Supported languages: english, german

Click here to view a screen shot.

News:

23.02.2005 Mondtag v0.82 fixes many problems and got created with Java 1.5.0_01

26.08.2004 Mondtag v0.8 has got the new interpretation methods agriculture and forestry

23.08.2004 Mondtag v0.73 fixes some small bugs concerning timezones and daylight savings time

19.08.2004 Mondtag v0.72 released. Bug fixed, that caused crashes on non-german Windows-installations

18.08.2004 Mondtag v0.71 released with minor bug fixes

17.08.2004 Mondtag v0.7 is finished! It can now calculate rise- and set-times of the sun. Also new is MondTip, a tool that shows the data of one day when executed.

24.06.2004 Mondtag v0.6 is the first public release

(For more see the CHANGELOG)

System Requirements:

Nothing special, but you need an installed Java Runtime Environment (I use JRE 1.5.0_01). If you don't have any, visit http://java.sun.com

Download:

NOTE: If you have v0.6 installed, uninstall it before installing v0.7/0.8 to avoid problems.

Actual and most stable release:

Mondtag v0.82 for Windows

Mondtag v0.82 platform independent (JAR)

Mondtag v0.82 source code

Licence:

This program is open source and released under the General Public Licence (GPL) (visit http://www.gnu.org for further information)

Tools used:

• eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/)

• Xenoage JEStart (http://www.xenoage.com)

• Nullsoft Installer (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/)

• HM NIS Edit (http://hmne.sourceforge.net/)

• 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/)

• OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org)

• The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/)

Thanks:

• Richard Wimmer and Erling Poulsen for giving me a very effective algorithm for lunar phase calculation

  (http://www.familie-wimmer.com/ , http://www.rundetaarn.dk/personale/epe.htm)

• Liam Girdwood for LibNova, which I use for lunar position calculation

  (http://libnova.sourceforge.net)

• Udo Mark for helping me getting the zodiac signs from lunar position

  (http://www.ginko.de/user/udomark)

• Johanna Paungger and Thomas Poppe for writing the excellent book „Vom richtigen Zeitpunkt“, which I used to create the interpretation functionality

  (http://www.paungger-poppe.com)

Other Links:

• http://mondhandy.de A lunar calendar for mobile phones.

Support & contact:

If Mondtag doesn't start, please read the FAQ first.

If you like to contact me, you can write to

Stephan Kahle