Hi Hooman, Thanks for the question. I go with "Iranian Islamic Calendar". I think Primary/Secondary and Solar/Lunar are both very bad names. And Islamic makes sense since that's what this calendar is called in English, so ours is the *Iranian* Islamic Calendar. And then "Iranian Calendar" and "Iranian Islamic Calendar" should be clear enough that which one's primary and which secondary.
behdad On Sun, 16 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: > Hi Behdad, > > I have a question (targeting you and everybody else working on Persian > locale projects such as .Net) > > The lunar Hijri calendar used in Iran is also an official calendar and > is calculated independent from other Hijri calendars used in other > islamic countries. It is an important calendar, since it determines > half of the holidays on our calendar. We also know that it has slightly > different month lengths than other Hijri calendars. > > Are you going to identify and support that calendar as well? Then what > would you call it in English? The answer to this question may affect > "Iranian Calendar" term as well. > > If you ask me, we can keep "Iranian Calendar" and call the Hijri > calendar "Iranian Secondary Calendar" or "Iranian Religious Calendar" > or something like that. I think we should avoid solar / lunar > designations in the English name to make it more meaningful and less > confusing for none-Iranians. With the same logic one may suggest using > "Iranian Primary Calendar" instead of "Iranian Calendar" to emphasize > the fact that more than one official regional calendar exists in Iran. > > My final verdict? I need to sleep on it for a while. > > Hooman Mehr > > On May 15, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Just trying to close an item in the long open agenda of the list. > > So we've reached a consensus on using "Iranian Calendar" for the > > term referring to the solar calendar in action in Tehran, right? > > So we forget about Jalali name, and call it Iranian Calendar, > > quite like Chinese, Japanese, and other countries. > > > > As for the rules, we at FarsiWeb have found enough evidence that > > the 2820-year periodic calendar of Birashk. We will later > > release the codes for that and replace our different ports. > > > > Please send your comments. > > > > Hamed, you are supposed to work on this, right? > > > > Thanks, > > > > --behdad > > behdad.org > > _______________________________________________ > > PersianComputing mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing > > > > _______________________________________________ > PersianComputing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
