Re: Hijri Library

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu>]

Just for the record:

1. Neither me nor Behdad is interested in prayer times. We are only
interesting in official Hijri calendars of the countries who do have an
official Hijri calendar. We believe a library implementing those
calendars has a good chance to get incorporated in mainstream Linux
distribution like Red Hat, while a prayer times tool doesn't have any. 

2. We are still waiting for the result of an Iranian government project
for a free specification and a free reference implementation for Iran's
Solar and Lunar Hijri calendars. Until then, we can't contribute much,
but we can work on the the common infrastructure. (I am not on the
'general' mailing list, only on 'developer', so I appreciate if the
discussion about this moves there or a new mailing list gets created for
the issue.)

Thanks for re-raising the issue,

roozbeh

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:38, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> I hope the same guys that have had an interest in the Prayertime library
> (as there have been a number of threads on that topic on this mailing-list)
> would look into this topic as well (it's semi-related).  I believe there
> are a number of Hijri libraries (and means to calculate them) out there;
> it would be ideal if we can (akin to what is being done for the prayertime
> effort) unify the Hijri library to a single instance and a single algorithm.
> 
> Do please read this post,
> 
>   http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2003/May/msg00053.html
> 
> Can we list out the various implementations out there so that a few people
> could take up the task of collecting the code and dissecting the algorithm
> used ?  The ITL project, again, is meant to cradle such topics/issues.
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim