Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Islamic Calendar

On 12/08/16 10:57 AM, toki wrote:
> On 12/08/2016 13:27, Gary Dale wrote:
> > I note that a similar issue occurred in Europe when the start of the new
> > year was moved from Easter to January 1. Historians deal with it by
> > listing both years for dates prior to switch. I suspect that they
> > probably do something similar, or cite the calendar in use, for dates
> > using a Julian calendar after the invention of the Gregorian.
> In looking for an explanation of why only those four Arabic locales have
> an Islamic calendar, I stumbled across a guy that was fed up with trying
> to convert between calendar systems, so he created a database whose
> index key is the Julian Day. Then he reconciled the Gregorian and Julian
> Calendar dates to Julian Days, to populate the database.  As his focus
> in history changes, he adds other calendars, as appropriate, to the
> database.
>
> jonathon
And of course the Julian day (day in the year) has nothing to do with 
the Julian calendar. It's merely a historical accident that the names 
are the same.  :)

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