Claus Tondering's calendar FAQ[1] has some information about this in
sections 4.2 and 4.5.
4.5 says that Saudi Arabia has adopted a calendar based on a
calculated astronomical moon (at Mecca).
This is actually the reason that I wanted to get a Moonrise package
working...
Hi Ben,
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This is actually the reason that I wanted to get a Moonrise package
working...
-ben
I tried, I failed, I surrender!!
Ron
Subject: Hijri dates
Hello to you all... is there anybody that has found a way to get other
modes of dates such as Hijri using perl...!? there are other calendar
system that are not wildly used throughout the world but are still used
indeed. the hijri system is based on lunar
Khalid, you might want to check out the following URLs. The first
talks about the difficulty you talk about. The second provides an
algorithm for determining the visibility of the new moon (although it
is based in Makkah). The algorithm could easily be converted to perl,
and I imagine you'd
