net.time4j.engine

Interface CalendarEra

public interface CalendarEra

Represents an era in a calendar system.

An era is date-related and defines a reference date which can be interpreted as start or end of an era. Not all calendar systems know an era concept, however. Especially all ISO-calendar systems have no era according to ISO-8601-standard. If an era exists in a given calendar system then the meaning of a year changes such that it means the year of an era counting as positive number from >= 1.

Author:

Meno Hochschild

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getValue() Deprecated. no replacement in next major release because it is not useful
String	name() Yields the canonical non-localized name.

Method Detail

name

String name()

Yields the canonical non-localized name.

Returns:

String

getValue

@Deprecated
int getValue()

Deprecated. no replacement in next major release because it is not useful

Yields an ordinal number which is scaled such that every era which contains the ISO-date of UTC-epoch [1972-01-01] will have the associated value 1.

Attention: This number is neither necessarily unique nor does it imply any chronological order.

Returns:

int