Subject: Hijri dates
> Hello to you all... is there anybody that has found a way to get other > modes of dates such as Hijri using perl...!? there are other calendar > system that are not wildly used throughout the world but are still used > indeed. the hijri system is based on lunar calculations and is about ten > days less per year. It's main problem thought is that the month number of > days is unpredictable (based on the moon of course) Microsoft has somehow > been able to figure out a way to calculate the hijri date and made it > available in Windows. > Please advice if you know of a way to get perl to provide Hijri dates.. > > Regards, > Khalid,,, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick Measham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ben Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 3:54 AM > Subject: Re: "local" timezone - no more offset only stuff > > > > >As a Redhat Sucker I figured I would give it a try (I did a full > > >refresh of the DateTime modules and upgraded my installed copies of > > >DateTime and DateTime::TimeZone). Below is the full output from > > >running the script, and below that are various pieces of info that > > >might help with debugging. > > > > Thanks Ben, that's a known problem (which I'm guessing you figured): > > > > On Tue, 20 May 2003, Rick Measham wrote: > > > I'm not sure about everyone else's RedHat but mine stores the > > > timezone in /etc/sysconfig/clock. Attached is a patch for TimeZone.pm > > > and for 04local.t > > > > At 2:22 PM -0500 24/5/03, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > >I've applied a variation of this patch. Can some Red Hat suckers^W, > ahem, > > >I mean users try this out ;) > > > > I'm guessing Dave is talking about the CVS version of TimeZone.pm so > > you might be best to grab that. Once a few of us 'suckers' test it > > out, Dave will release it to the world at large. > > > > Cheers! > > Rick > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > There are 10 kinds of people: > > those that understand binary, and those that don't. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck > > is the day they start selling vacuum cleaners > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > "Write a wise proverb and your name will live forever." > > -- Anonymous > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > >
