Re: Prayer time

[Moustafa Elqabbany <elqabbany at yahoo dot com>]

Assalamu alaikum,

As was pointed out, there are existing, reliable
command line utilities called praytime, hcal, and
hdate.  I emailed a tar ball to Ahmed.  I suggest we
start with the copy I have, rather than the copy
you'll find on the Internet since a couple of us
modified the one I have to support a few more things,
like:

o flexibility in choosing the degree of the sun for
computing isha and fajr 
o the ability to compute fajr and isha times for
latitudes between 48-66 degrees using an algorithm put
forth in a paper by the Muslim World League.  I'm not
100% comfortable with the algorithm.  (The code works,
but I'm not sure that any ulema confirmed the details
of the algorithm itself.)
o the ability to have different criteria for daylight
savings time, since the Middle East and South America
aren't the same as North American in this regard. 
(This was done by Amr Wassal.)

Salam,
Moustafa

--- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:54:53PM +0300, Thamer
> MAhmoud wrote:
> > 
> > So is it "Akim Salatk" or  "Akem Salatak" ? :)
> > 
> 
> I think the latter makes more sense.
> 
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be more interesting if we have a
> collection of small,
> > command-line only utilities, with only the basic
> dependencies that
> > other large and separate programs (like Akim
> Salatak) could depend
> > on? I'm thinking of something similar to parted
> (the command line
> > partition editor) and QTparted (parted + GUI using
> QT toolkit).
> 
> I would tend to agree with you here. Let us see how
> Ahmed would like to
> take this and form a plan as to how to proceed. The
> ITL project badly
> needs a revival and some serious re-organization. 
> As it is, it seems
> very chaotic.
> 
> > 
> > Now, to my utter surprise, looks like these tools
> already exist:
> > 
> > [..]
> >
> > It would be much better to extend or continue the
> ongoing efforts
> > instead of duplicating it. Is anyone familiar with
> this tool?
> > 
> 
> I am personaly not familiar with 'hdate', however, I
> have known about it
> from Aymen Negm. He is currently taking over
> maintaninership of the
> debian package since the maintainer seems to have
> vanished. In my
> conversation with Aymen some time back, we have
> agreed that Aymen would
> try to hunt down the original author and see if what
> his future plans
> are for 'hdate'. If he is nowhere to be found, then
> we would integrate
> it somehow into the ITL project. The last thing we
> need is for it to be
> orphaned.
> 
> Good of you to have brought it up ;)
> 
> Regards
> -- 
>
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