I recommend augmenting the documentation of any calendar implementation with a clear description of limitations and range of accuracy of the implementation. Otherwise, many people -- at least I was until a few days ago -- are going to get deceived into trying to assume a 2820 year period is more correct and may try implementing a supposedly more correct algorithm. This document needs to refute all majorly accepted sources of information on this subject.
Farsiweb should prepare -- if that is in the scope of FarsiWeb's work -- a draft of a recommended practice for implementing date conversion involving calendars used in Iran. This document will of course change over time, as long as better conversion methods are derived. On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:37:58 +0430, Roozbeh Pournader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:28, Ordak D. Coward wrote: > > > Another way to interpret this email is that Birashk's method fails to > > correctly predict the year 1403, and hence if we use that mehtod, all > > dates in year 1404 will be off by one day. On the other hand, using > > the 33 year period mentioned above works fine until year 1468. > > That's it! I was waiting for someone to raise this. :) > > roozbeh > > _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
