On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 22:50, hameed afssari wrote:
> 1. Jalali is the offical calendar of Afghanestan (although they may be
> using different month name).
They use different month names, yes, but they officially call it the
same as Iran: "Hejri-e Shamsi" or "Hejri-e Khorshidi". That can be
confirmed by looking at any calendar published in Afghanistan.
To find some information about the calendars of Afghanistan, please see
page 23 of the CLRA report:
http://evertype.com/standards/af/af-locales.pdf
> 2. By calling it Persian or Iranian Calendar you are be default
> limiting it's use to a country or region and that is not correct.
Actually, that will make it very correct. The actual computation of the
leap year in this calendar is based on the Iranian coordinates. To quote
the text of the official Iranian law of 1925, "the first day of the
year, is the day that sun passes the spring equinox point between the
noon of that day and the noon of its previous day". You can see that it
refers to *noon*, which is defined differently in different parts of the
world. Iraj Malekpour, the previous guy in charge of the official
calendar of Iran, used the noon of the 52.5 degree meridian
(nesf-on-nahaar) that defines the official time of the country. I don't
know the current practice.
roozbeh
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