Re: Islamic calendar, was: The mil as a unit of angle.
Subject: Re: Islamic calendar, was: The mil as a unit of angle.
From: Richard M. Pisko (rmpisko1@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 17:16:02 EST
Back before the dawn of time (on Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:23:04
-0400, to be exact), "Trevor J. Kenchington"
<Gadus@XXX.XXX> 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 ...
