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> Eventually somebody will have to deal with this The Islamic calendar drifts by about 10 days a year, and Muslims seems to be able to cope fine with their hol
by School-Cotton 4y ago
> Eventually somebody will have to deal with this
The Islamic calendar drifts by about 10 days a year, and Muslims seems to be able to cope fine with their holidays not consistently being in the same season.
- foolswisdom 4y agoWell to be fair, I don't think the Muslim calendar is _meant_ to have any solar correspondence anyway. But more importantly the holidays, is the use of the calendar in having a natural sense of time (that is, corresponding with the seasons / sun). Which is why most Islamic countries use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes (or so claims Wikipedia, at least).
- School-Cotton 4y agoOrthodox Christian countries also use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes.
- GreenWatermelon 4y agoMany Islamic countries do in fact use the Gregorian calendar for Civic purposes, at the very least Egypt does which I can confirm by virtue of living here.