L.1.18.5 Use of Different Calendar Systems

Office Open XML supports the use of the following calendars:

Gregorian Hebrew Lunar Hijri Lunar Japanese Emperor Era Korean Tangun Era Saka Era Taiwanese Thai Buddhist

These calendars are enumerated in the ST_CalendarType simple type, and can be used in WordprocessingML, e.g.:

Structured Document Tag calendar formats (17.5.2.3)

Date-based Fields (17.16.5.11, 17.16.5.13, 17.16.5.47, 17.16.5.53)

As an illustration, the calendars supported by ST_CalendarType (22.9.2.1) can be displayed through the date and time fields as shown below:

Calendar Type

Field Instructions

Result (on 2007-12- 17T00:00.00)

Gregorian

17 December 2007

Hebrew Lunar

The language component of the BCP 47 language code used by the lang element (17.3.2.20) on the run containing the field instructions equals he.

8 Tevet 5768

Hijri Lunar

The language component of the BCP 47 language code used by the lang element (17.3.2.20) on the run containing the field instructions equals ar.

8 Thoul Hijjah 1428

Japanese Emperor Era

Korean Tangun Era

17 December 19

The language component of the BCP 47 language code used by the lang element (17.3.2.20) on the run containing the field instructions equals ko.

17 December 단기

Saka Era

Taiwanese

26 Agrahayana 1929 17 December 平成

The lang element (17.3.2.20) on the run containing the field instructions equals zh-TW.

Thai Buddhist Era

17 ธนวาคม ั 2550