On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 01:40, Ordak D. Coward wrote:
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
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 05:03, Ordak D. Coward wrote:
Farsiweb should prepare -- if that is in the scope of FarsiWeb's work
-- a draft of a recommended practice for implementing date conversion
involving calendars used in Iran. This document will of course change
over time, as long as better
So, to conclude, I think we better don't touch the 33
implementations we have until we've got a real calendar. Just
talking about FarsiWeb of course. Other people are free about
what they choose.
behdad
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote:
I did some more research on the accuracy of
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
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
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote:
I guess the best thing to do:
- is get an archive of the last 50 years of official times of
vernal equinox, or saal tahveel, and compute the length of
year for each year. Fit them with linear or quadratic curves.
Look at Birashk's method and
On Thu, 20 May 2004 22:30:33 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote:
Ordak's 2820 year method:
bool isLeap2820ODC = ((683*year+542) % 2820) 683;
in comparison to:
Birashk's 2820 year method:
bool isLeap2820Birashk = ((year %
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote:
Ordak's 2820 year method:
bool isLeap2820ODC = ((683*year+542) % 2820) 683;
in comparison to:
Birashk's 2820 year method:
bool isLeap2820Birashk = ((year % 2820) == 474) ||
(((31 * ((year+2345) % 2820)) %
