From: eden li <eden.li@...>
Date: 2006-10-09T17:09:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing Islamic date

Hrm, looking around it looks like there's not much out there for Ruby.

Maybe you can port the Perl version to Ruby?
http://search.cpan.org/src/APLEINER/Date_Hijri-0.02/Hijri.pm

It doesn't look too hairy, and you could score community points by
posting it back to RAA or rubyforge or something.

Peter Szinek wrote:
> Is it possible to parse an Islamic date in Ruby by any means? I have
> found nothing but this:
>
> (from date.rb):
>
> ... Alternative calendars such as the Chinese Lunar Calendar, the
> Islamic Calendar, or the French Revolutionary Calendar are not supported
> by the Date class; ...