The usage for a Calendar must also be considered. In addition to changes depending on country, culture, religion and all the other considerations mentioned, there is the issue of moment in time. Genealogy and History (including dependent disciplines such as archeology, et. al.) require a lot more knowledge.
Even those who share the "same" calendar (such as the Gregorian) don't always have the same view of what date it is. For someone in Germany, the 3rd of September 1752 followed the 2nd of September 1752. In the American Colonies however, the day after Wednesday September 2nd was Thursday September 14th. (Unix/Linux systems support this; try typing "cal 1752" at the command line and, depending on locale, you may be surprised.) Other countries using the Gregorian calendar "corrected" its accumulated errors at quite different times, but they all have similar burps in their calendars. And don't forget the French revolutionary calendar. Napoleon's greatest contribution to France might just have been his abolishment of that unusual thirteen month calendar. Ben Franklin, who traveled between France and the American colonies in those years likely experienced far worse jet lag than any of us ever had from air travel. The point is, I suppose, that we must settle for the 99% of needs we have; it seems unlikely that any software will ever support *every* such variation. Right now, we're probably in the upper 80% range, but that's all we're likely to see. Have a great day, whatever date you suspect it might be. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Islamic-Calendar-tp4190641p4190688.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
