Date and time macros in Chinese

Question

Is there a way to get time and date stamps, or other standard counters, to appear in Chinese? I am using xeCJK.

Package babel (with \selectlanguage{french} etc. in context) makes it simple for the major European languages.

Can you explain, what you want to do and how the output should look like? A minimal working example (MWE) would be helpful. Have you seen Use of Chinese numers similar to \Roman and \Arabic. \zhdate{\year/\month/\day} (or \zhtoday) produces “2013 年 2 月 1 日” with the zhnumber package. — Qrrbrbirlbel, Feb 01 '13 at 21:58
@Qrrbrbirlbel: The various commands in the zhnumber package solve all of my problems — thank you! Why don't you submit this as the answer and I'll approve it. — brannerchinese, Feb 01 '13 at 22:56

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

The package zhnumber provides many macros to convert numbers, counters, dates and times into their Chinese representation.

Unfortunately, I can only understand the macro and option names in the manual.

In Use of Chinese numers similar to \Roman and \Arabic you can find another example that uses LaTeX counters.

Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{SimSun}
\usepackage{zhnumber}
\begin{document}
Date: \zhtoday

Time: \zhcurrtime

\zhnumsetup{time=Chinese}
Date: \zhtoday

Time: \zhcurrtime

\zhnumsetup{time=Arabic}
1586/08/17: \zhdate{1586/08/17}
\end{document}

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Date and time macros in Chinese

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