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Hijri calendar
« Thread started on: Aug 4th, 2015, 01:04am » |
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I was asked to write a program to find the date according to the Hijri (Islamic) calendar. It took a lot of Googling to discover how to do it; here's the answer in case anybody else is interested. It needs Windows Vista or later:
Code: CAL.HIJRI = 6
global CAL.HIJRI
struct SYSTEMTIME, wYear as word, wMonth as word, _
wDayOfWeek as word, wDay as word, wHour as word, _
wMinute as word, wSecond as word, wMilliseconds as word
struct CALDATETIME, CalId as long, Era as long, _
Year as long, Month as long, Day as long, DayOfWeek as long, _
Hour as long, Minute as long, Second as long, Tick as long
calldll #kernel32, "GetSystemTime", SYSTEMTIME as struct, _
result as long
calldll #kernel32, "ConvertSystemTimeToCalDateTime", _
SYSTEMTIME as struct, CAL.HIJRI as long, _
CALDATETIME as struct, result as long
print "Today's date in the Hijri calendar is:"
print "Year "; CALDATETIME.Year.struct;", ";
print "Month "; CALDATETIME.Month.struct;", ";
print "Day "; CALDATETIME.Day.struct
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Re: Hijri calendar
« Reply #1 on: Aug 12th, 2015, 1:56pm » |
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Gregorian-to-Hijri and Hijri-to-Gregorian conversion functions (the parameters are not checked for validity).
Edit: Corrected HijriToGregorian function.
Code: CAL.HIJRI = 6
global CAL.HIJRI
struct SYSTEMTIME, wYear as word, wMonth as word, _
wDayOfWeek as word, wDay as word, wHour as word, _
wMinute as word, wSecond as word, wMilliseconds as word
struct CALDATETIME, CalId as long, Era as long, _
Year as long, Month as long, Day as long, DayOfWeek as long, _
Hour as long, Minute as long, Second as long, Tick as long
year = 1952 : month = 5 : day = 3
call GregorianToHijri year, month, day
print year, month, day
call HijriToGregorian year, month, day
print year, month, day
wait
end
sub GregorianToHijri byref year, byref month, byref day
SYSTEMTIME.wYear.struct = year
SYSTEMTIME.wMonth.struct = month
SYSTEMTIME.wDay.struct = day
calldll #kernel32, "ConvertSystemTimeToCalDateTime", _
SYSTEMTIME as struct, CAL.HIJRI as long, _
CALDATETIME as struct, result as long
year = CALDATETIME.Year.struct
month = CALDATETIME.Month.struct
day = CALDATETIME.Day.struct
end sub
sub HijriToGregorian byref year, byref month, byref day
CALDATETIME.Year.struct = year
CALDATETIME.Month.struct = month
CALDATETIME.Day.struct = day
CALDATETIME.CalId.struct = CAL.HIJRI
CALDATETIME.Era.struct = 1
for dow = 1 to 7
CALDATETIME.DayOfWeek.struct = dow
calldll #kernel32, "ConvertCalDateTimeToSystemTime", _
CALDATETIME as struct, SYSTEMTIME as struct, _
result as long
next
year = SYSTEMTIME.wYear.struct
month = SYSTEMTIME.wMonth.struct
day = SYSTEMTIME.wDay.struct
end sub
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Re: Hijri calendar
« Reply #2 on: Aug 13th, 2015, 9:24pm » |
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I found this note about Gregorian-Hijri conversions generally:
"The same Gregorian date may actually have up to four Hijri equivalent dates according to the PLACE & TIME. The 1st of Ramadan in Jordan for example could be the 30th of Shaban in some other parts of the world according to the sighting of the moon, also 1st of Ramadan at an instance in San Francisco could be equivalent to the 2nd of Ramadan in China because of time zone difference. To add on top of that, the Islamic & Hebrew days begin at sunset, so the 1st of August before sunset & after sunset will correspond to two different Islamic & Hebrew days."
I don't know what assumptions the Windows API routines make, so don't be surprised if the conversion functions above give a different result from other converters you might find.
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Re: Hijri calendar
« Reply #3 on: Aug 14th, 2015, 09:04am » |
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Sorry, I discovered that the HijriToGregorian function didn't work. Now corrected in the post above.
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