Hi, On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Pratik Anand <[email protected]> wrote: > > unfortunately, the hindu calendar varies much from the our de-facto system > in no. of days in months. > So, I am looking for an algorithm which does it effectively , otherwise, I > will have to write it from scratch which may have some bugs(in dates). > the app first calculates the time in seconds(unix epoch way) then converts > it to gregorian. This info be of help,if any. >
Why writing from scratch should be difficult ? >From the wiki link provided by Sudheer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_national_calendar Chaitra 1, 1879 Saka Era, == March 22, 1957 Consider this as your 'epoch'. 1. Calculate no of days from epoch (ndays) e.g: 31 Aug, 2010 is '19521' http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=31&m1=08&y1=2010&d2=22&m2=03&y2=1957 <http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=31&m1=08&y1=2010&d2=22&m2=03&y2=1957>2. Add 'ndays' to Chaitra 1, 1879 using the Indian calendaring system. the table gives number of days for each month and conditions for leap years / leap months are also given. Both subtraction of dates and adding a duration to date, are standard exercise problems for first course in C programming. Regards, Sourabh -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
