Thread: [Announce] Multi-calendar Date Widget (Persian, Islamic/Hijri and other calendars)
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farhadi is offline farhadi
2010-05-17 , 06:44
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Originally Posted by niqbal View Post
ya i also wanted to mention that. islamic-civil worked. I still fail to understand how can a lunar cycle calendar output 31 and also what is the difference between Islamic calendar and Islamic-civil calendar? the developer would know exactly why he gave two Islamic calendars?
Actually I didn't write the calendar algorithms myself. I'm just using libicu for calendar calculations.
The only thing that I could understand from documentations is that the Islamic one is a religious/astronomical calendar while the Islamic-civil is a fixed-cycle civil calendar.

For more information see the below link:
http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j/...cCalendar.html