🪔 Ponjika – Traditional Bangla Calendar for Dart

📦 Package: ponjika

✨ Tagline (Free Palestine 🇵🇸):

Traditional Bangla Calendar, Modern API.

📄 Overview

Ponjika is a lightweight and accurate Dart utility for converting Gregorian (English) dates into the traditional Bangla calendar—known as Bongabdo. With its modern, extensible API, Ponjika empowers developers to bring Bengali cultural context to their apps, including dates, months, seasons, and days of the week—formatted exactly the way you want.

Whether you're building a Bangla news app, event tracker, or calendar-based utility, Ponjika brings your users one step closer to home.

✅ Features

  • 🔢 Converts English digits to Bangla numerals
  • 🗓️ Converts any Gregorian date to traditional Bongabdo format
  • 🌸 Includes season (SS) and weekday (WW) formatting
  • 🎯 Fully customizable output format
  • 🧪 Accurate leap year support (Falgun has 31 days in leap years)
  • 🌐 Bangla text output with Bengali Unicode support
  • 💡 Lightweight and dependency-free

🚀 Quick Start

🕰️ Basic Usage

final result = Ponjika.format(date: DateTime(2025, 4, 17));
// Output: ৪ বৈশাখ, ১৪৩২

📅 Custom Format

final custom = Ponjika.format(
  date: DateTime(2025, 4, 17),
  format: "DD MM, YY (WW) - SS",
  showSeason: true,
  showWeekDays: true,
);
// Output: ৪ বৈশাখ, ১৪৩২ (বৃহস্পতিবার) - গ্রীষ্ম

🔢 Bangla Number Conversion Only

final banglaNumber = Ponjika.format(
  date: DateTime(2025, 4, 17),
  format: "YY",
);
// Output: ১৪৩২

🎭 Emojis for Seasons ( 🌤️)

Ponjika comes with a tiny helper to show seasonal emojis based on the current date:

final emoji = Ponjika.getSeasonEmoji(DateTime.now());
// Output: ☀️ (for গ্রীষ্ম)

final emojiWithName = Ponjika.getSeasonEmoji(DateTime.now(), showName: true);
// Output: ☀️ গ্রীষ্ম

📘 Format Tokens Reference

Token Description Example
DD Bangla date ৪
MM Bangla month name বৈশাখ
YY Bangla year (Bongabdo) ১৪৩২
WW Weekday (Bangla) বৃহস্পতিবার
SS Season (Bangla) গ্রীষ্ম

⚠️ You must enable showSeason or showWeekDays to activate SS and WW.

🔍 Use Cases

  • Bangla calendar or date picker
  • News, event, or reminder apps
  • Bengali astrology and cultural planners
  • Educational tools for learning the traditional calendar

📚 License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0. You are free to use this package in personal and commercial projects with proper attribution.

Libraries

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