Microsoft Lunar Hijri calendar is based on Calculation of Saudi Arabian Authority and not Kuwait as Saudi Arabia is the only country that relies heavily on LUnar Hijri calendar instead of gregorian in all Arab and Islamic world. In fact SA authority usually request built in customization for practical and Civic( planning holidays,...) for this calendar.
>From: Roozbeh Pournader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Hooman Mehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "'PersianComputing'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Iranian Calendar
>Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 20:05:33 +0430
>
>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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