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Do computer systems in the Kingdom of Saud report date/times according the lunar calendar? Or did they?
by valarauca1 10y ago
Do computer systems in the Kingdom of Saud report date/times according the lunar calendar?
Or did they?
- sleepychu 10y agoThe Islamic Calendar has had support in Java since 8 introduced the Date and Time API. I don't know if OS support was around, Wikipedia is sparse on the topic. [#] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar#Computer_support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar#Computer_supp...
- douche 10y agoAt least the Saudi Arabian bank that I've worked with did not use a lunar calendar on their servers. At least as far as I know, and I'm sure it would have come up, our application doing lots of date/time manipulation and scheduling.
- robotmlg 10y agoCalendar on Mac, and I'm pretty sure on iOS too, lets you show the Islamic, Chinese, or Hebrew calendar along with the Gregorian calendar
- Lanthanide 10y agoThey did and still do- optionally. But the system probably uses Gregorian underneath it all, using the Hijri calendar just for display and maybe file timestamps (been a while since I had mine set to Hijri so I'm not certain). It can be enabled pretty easily in Windows 10: http://windowsclan.com/switch-to-hijri-calendar-in-windows-10/ http://windowsclan.com/switch-to-hijri-calendar-in-windows-1...