On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 02:09, Omid K. Rad wrote: > I totally agree with you that the name "Jalali" keeps away all that > confusion and debate around Farsi/Persian/Iranian and also > Shamsi/Khorshidi.
There remains another confusion also: that the Afghan calendar is different from the Iranian one in leap year calculation. And since the origin of both is the Jalali calendar .... > But as far as I'm advised, the "Jalali Calendar" > refers to an era other than the "Hejrie Shamsi" which is in use today, > and the calculations are not exactly the same. This is what some people > have told me, I don't know about the details though. Can anybody clarify > please? I confirm. The leap year calculation rule is supposedly that same, but the lengths of the months is different. roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing