I recommend augmenting the documentation of any calendar
implementation with a clear description of limitations and range of
accuracy of the implementation. Otherwise, many people -- at least I
was until a few days ago -- are going to get deceived into trying to
assume a 2820 year period is more co
I downloaded and tested a few dates with the Win32 executable of
Jalali (the one at sourceforge). The bad news is that, the conversion
is not correct.
The conversion is wrong for 20 March 2005, and similarly a few other
dates that should convert to 30 Esfand Year YYLP, instead all such
dates conver
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 23:13, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
>
> > and Notepad is not an HTML editor
>
> What is notepad? A text editor? Text editors should not insert a UTF-8
> BOM either. The problem is that Microsoft sometimes invents non-standard
> things a
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 19:46, Hooman Mehr wrote:
> One more thing, the reason that I may seem talented for story telling
> is that I am an INFP (http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP.html), so
> be-warned.
Ah, I can't confirm that, since it's too psychological. But Hooman talks
a lot! ;) I can't f
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 04:47, hameed afssari wrote:
> Microsoft Lunar Hijri calendar is based on Calculation of Saudi
> Arabian Authority and not Kuwait ...
I can't confirm that. Please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar
where it specifically mentions that: Microsoft uses the "Ku
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:28, Ordak D. Coward wrote:
> Another way to interpret this email is that Birashk's method fails to
> correctly predict the year 1403, and hence if we use that mehtod, all
> dates in year 1404 will be off by one day. On the other hand, using
> the 33 year period mentioned a
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 16:07, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> > You can re-live its creation here in the archives:
> > http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/persiancomputing/2003-June/0
> 00538.html
> [snip]
>
> Thanks for the links. Seems like a very handy keyboard. BTW, why the
> Shift-Space combination doe
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 01:48, C Bobroff wrote:
> Roozbeh, is it not time to remove the "experimental" from its name?
No. This has not become a national standard yet. When it becomes a
national standard (and possibly changing a little at the time), we'll
remove experimental from the name.
roozbeh
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:05, Hooman Mehr wrote:
> The fact that Iranian authorities in this regard act as if they are
> directly appointed by God is another story...
Don't get hot, please.
roozbeh
PS: Where is this admin hat? I left it just here last time! :'-(
roozbeh
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On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 10:25, C Bobroff wrote:
> Is there any way to type a hyphen
> that will resist break-up during wrapping?
Use the "Insert | Symbol" menu in MS Word for lots of other things also,
copyright symbols, non-breaking spaces, longer dashes, ...
roozbeh
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On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 23:13, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> and Notepad is not an HTML editor
What is notepad? A text editor? Text editors should not insert a UTF-8
BOM either. The problem is that Microsoft sometimes invents non-standard
things and then pushes it so hard that Unicode adds it to parts of
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 16:02, Omid K. Rad wrote:
> I don't have many calendars in hand here, but when I was in Iran I found
> many calendars that use 'Amordad' instead of 'Mordad'. I took a photo of
> the only Iranian calendar I have here for you too see an instance.
Ah, that's an "Eghbal" calenda
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