Thus spake Ali Abdin: > * Nils Barth (nils_barth post harvard edu) wrote at 02:45 on 01/12/00: > > Are any other (than emacs/windows) solutions widespread in the Middle East? > > Not really. 99.9999% of people (maybe more) have never heard of emacs ;) As > far as I know the windows platform is the only Islamic calendar solution for > the middle east (and possibly proprietary implementations by consultants, > and/or "internal" implementations). Hmmm....didn't you say Saudi Arabia uses the Islamic calendar for everyday functions/official functions? If so, it must be obnoxious changing the date on one's computer every few months (the equivalent of the blinking 12:00 on the VCR, eh?). > Also - Islamic calendar is not used for "everyday" work. It is mainly used for > religious holidays nowadays. Most people just use Gregorian for everyday use. While we're at it, shouldn't we implement Easter too? (and I suppose Chinese calender things). Also for past dates we'd likely need a lookup table for when the months started (in various countries) -- though we'd actually need this for past dates in Gregorian in some locales (though only for VERY past dates, in general) -- -nils Public key: http://www.nbarth.net/~nbarth/pub-key.txt
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