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Re: Islamic calendar, was: The mil as a unit of angle.
From: Richard M Pisko
Date: 2003 Mar 18, 15:16 -0700
From: Richard M Pisko
Date: 2003 Mar 18, 15:16 -0700
Back before the dawn of time (on Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:23:04 -0400, to be exact), "Trevor J. Kenchington"wrote: >It is, however, entirely possible for a new month to start in, say, >California one day (of the Western calendar) before it does in Saudi >Arabia, as the moon moves that bit further from the Sun during the >roughly 12 hours between the time of sunset at the two places. In more >familiar terms, that probably means that the Islamic religious calendar >uses a different "dateline" to the Western one and, moreover, a >"dateline" that varies in longitude from month to month. > Well put, even if difficult for me to calculate. -- Richard ...