Please can somebody translate the following date

15.9.15

 

this is the last oil change my car had and was wondering what it meant

Just do another anyway, better safe than sorry ;)

Just do another anyway, better safe than sorry

Oh yea im doing this. Just asking out of interest

The year 2003 corresponds to Heisei 15 - It is the year of the Sheep http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2272.html

 

The first year of an emperor's reign begins on his accession to the throne and ends on December 31; thereafter a new year of the reign begins each January 1. Strictly speaking, days in the first part of the year in which a new emperor takes the throne would be dated with his predecessor's nengō, and of course that is how contemporary records are dated. Scholars, however, have tended to label every day in such a year as year 1 of whatever nengō applied at the year's end. Years prior to the adoption of the nengō system are often dated by the official posthumous name of the emperor and the year of reign. To distinguish such dates from true nengō, the word tennō (“sovereign”) is usually added to them. Unlike nengō dates, the first year of reign is the first full year of reign.

 

Recent nengō are:

 

Kyōwa, 1801–1804

Bunkwa, 1804–1818

Bunsei, 1818–1830

Tempo, 1830–1844

Kōkwa, 1844–1848

Kaei, 1848–1854

Ansei, 1854–1860

Man-en, 1860–1861

Bunkyū, 1861–1864

Genji, 1864–1865

Keio, 1865–1868

Meiji (“Enlightened Rule”), 1868–1912

Taishō (“Great Righteousness”), 1912–25 December 1926

Shōwa (“Enlightenment and Harmony”), 25 December 1926–7 January 1989

Heisei (“Achieving Peace”), 7 January 7 1989–

To convert a Japanese year to a Western year, find the year in the common era of the first year of the nengō from a table like the one above, subtract 1, and add the number of the Japanese year. For example Showa 23 would be (1926 − 1 = 1925, 1925 + 23 = 1948).

How complicated is that?! :mac1:

No wonder the DVLA couldn't tell me if my car was a H or J reg! :rofl:

How complicated is that?! :mac1:

No wonder the DVLA couldn't tell me if my car was a H or J reg! :rofl:

 

 

My is apparently a 'G' but is on a 'H' plate.

Please can somebody translate the following date

15.9.15

 

this is the last oil change my car had and was wondering what it meant

 

15th September 1915, no sweat ;)

15th September 1915, no sweat ;)

 

Better do that oil change ASAP.