Hi,
Thank you for the refinements and clarifications. Maybe I've used to the old Mac OS calendar API which used to correctly support dates way before Gregorian calendar existed (even before Christian era). On the other hand, even if you reduce my suggested number to 2000 days, you'll find differences and it won't be unreasonable to expect an OS to support it.
On May 17, 2004, at 8:05 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 11:55, Hooman Mehr wrote:It comes upwith an initial estimate (or best guess) of the *adjusted* calendarwhich is usually only re-adjusted for Ramadan.
... and Shawwal.
This pre-adjustedcalendar is not the same as the basic table in MSDN, nor the mostlyobservational Hijri calendar meant by MSDN and common in Saudi Arabia.
The Microsoft Hijri base calendar is acutally based on the Kuwaiti one. I guess I saw it on the Wikipedia, but I can find the reference if it proves to be important.
Please note that a good calendar software service in an operatingsystem or application should be able to tell you precisely what wasthe date say 100,000 days ago at a specific location (within the rangeof validity of the calendar, of course) or what date it estimates tobe at a specific location 100,000 days in the future.
I don't agree. An operating system rarely allows any date calculation for 270 years into the past or the future. Even for Gregorian.
roozbeh
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