Rich Wales wrote: > > Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> Islam has its own calendar (with a particularly painful Leap Year >> calculation that gives very marginally more accuracy than the >> Gregorian). > > > Are you perhaps thinking about the Iranian (Persian) calendar here? > > The Islamic calendar, AFAIK, is a 12-month lunar calendar which makes > =no= attempt whatsoever to stay in sync with the seasons. > >> I'm not sure how the Chinese, Hindu, Japanese and Jewish calendars >> handle leap years. > Here is some descriptions of the traditional Chinese calendar (the lunar calendar) http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-chinese.html Note that Chinese farming is based on the lunar calender. > > The Jewish calendar uses a 13th lunar month in seven out of every > 19 years. Additionally, some months can have either 29 or 30 days, > depending on complex calculations. > > Rich Wales > Palo Alto, CA, USA > richw_at_richw.org > http://www.richw.org Regards, David XuReceived on Tue Jan 03 2006 - 01:24:26 UTC
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