Sexagenary Year (CST)
| Epoch | Confidence | Associated with |
|---|---|---|
| 19 January 2696 BCE +16:00:00 | High | Beijing |
Overview
The Sexagenary Cycle is a system of counting years in the Chinese calendar (and several other aspects of life). It is a multiplication of the 10 Heavenly Stems and the 12 Earthly Branches (Chinese Zodiac) with half of the combinations left out, leading to a total cycle length of 60. The cycle moves to the next combination on the day of the New Year in the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
Info
| 10 Heavenly Stems | 12 Earthly Branches |
|---|---|
| 甲 (Jia) | 子 (Zi) |
| 乙 (Yi) | 丑 (Chou) |
| 丙 (Bing) | 寅 (Yin) |
| 丁 (Ding) | 卯 (Mao) |
| 戊 (Wu) | 辰 (Chen) |
| 己 (Ji) | 巳 (Si) |
| 庚 (Geng) | 午 (Wu) |
| 辛 (Xin) | 未 (Wei) |
| 壬 (Ren) | 申 (Shen) |
| 癸 (Gui) | 酉 (You) |
| 戌 (Xu) | |
| 亥 (Hai) |
Accuracy
This calendar system should be very accurate. It may be off by a few days at the start of a given year, or rarely an entire month, due to the inaccuracies from the Chinese lunisolar calendar calculations. However, it corrects itself by the next new moon.
Source
Some general information was taken from the Wikipedia article for this calendar, but the general calculation is derived from the Chinese lunisolar calendar.