Re: PersianComputing Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6 (fwd)

2005-02-25 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: I'm not sure how the date data type can be representation agnostic. What ever the OS provides (via a system call) is in reference to a starting point in some calendar. On UNIX systems, this is traditionally the number of seconds since January 1,

Re: PersianComputing Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6 (fwd)

2005-02-24 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, mohsen ali momeni wrote: Now something else , For AddDate and DateDiff functions, I need an algorithm which calculates the number of leap years between two given Date. Is there any such algorithm or at least a documentation for the above algorithms (jalali.c) so that i

Re: PersianComputing Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6 (fwd)

2005-02-24 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, mohsen ali momeni wrote: Now something else , For AddDate and DateDiff functions, I need an algorithm which calculates the number of leap years between two given Date. Is there any such algorithm or at least a documentation for the above algorithms (jalali.c) so that i

Re: PersianComputing Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6 (fwd)

2005-02-22 Thread mohsen ali momeni
Hi , I talked to Roozbeh Pournader about your mail. Seems like you are using an old version of the code, which has the problem as you mentioned. Our latest code is available from address below and doesn't have that problem: http://www.farsiweb.info/jalali/jalali.c Thanks for your

Re: PersianComputing Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6

2005-02-19 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, mohsen ali momeni wrote: No. Wrong. So you say we should still fight about our calender name? I mean yes, if we have not come up with a name yet, we can continue discussion, of course you are free to call it fight or whatever. No. They simply are not interested in