On Saturday 10 July 2010 19:50:48 narendra sisodiya wrote: > > Like if we know > > at a certain time , the bikram sanvat date was such and such then we can > > find dates before and after it upto certain dates. But , that kind of way > > won't be useful if I want to find a date in real past or future, say > > Birth of Christ in Bikram samvat. > > As, it was told, that it has 60 years cycles. I do not find the difficulty > (logical). >
it does not follow what westerners call logic - within the sixty years, wise men look at the stars and moon and decide what starts when. This was about 20 years ago, so I am hazy about the details, but a concrete example is the month of Ramazan in the muslim calendar - that ends when a certain designated person in each part of the world sights the new moon - so at the most a computer program can predict the date with a margin of error of two days. Multiply that error by sighting the position of stars etc - better to program a killy. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
