Parsing Islamic date

Ruby
1

Hello all,

Is it possible to parse an Islamic date in Ruby by any means? I have
found nothing but this:

(from date.rb):

… Alternative calendars such as the Chinese Lunar Calendar, the
Islamic Calendar, or the French Revolutionary Calendar are not supported
by the Date class; …

but no hint for the solution.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Peter
http://www.rubyrailways.com

2

Hrm, looking around it looks like there’s not much out there for Ruby.

Maybe you can port the Perl version to Ruby?
http://search.cpan.org/src/APLEINER/Date_Hijri-0.02/Hijri.pm

It doesn’t look too hairy, and you could score community points by
posting it back to RAA or rubyforge or something.

3

On 10/9/06, Peter S. [email protected] wrote:

Hello all,

Is it possible to parse an Islamic date in Ruby by any means? I have
found nothing but this:

I would look at the various localization libraries for Ruby. Don’t
know them off hand, but date/calendar localization is pretty important
for any l10n/i18n library.