Re: Request for improving 'date' command

2008-06-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for those contributions, but my understanding is that the Persian calendar is astronomical, which means any numeric calculation would be an approximation, right? What approximation is being used here? Does the code work for dates arbitrarily in the past or future, when time_t is 64 bits fo

Request for improving 'date' command

2008-06-19 Thread Ghassem Tofighi
Hi I'm a Persian Linux user. I saw in date manual that you are the developer of date. As you know there are some other calendars in the world that are used vastly. In Iran and some another country we use jalali calendar, in Israel people use jewish calendar and in Arabic country people use hijri ca