Jalali Calendar (was: Persian Language)

[David T.]

I don't know if this would help, but the link below shows C# code for a converter:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/PersianDateInSQLServer.aspx

David

--- On Tue, 1/12/10, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:

> From: Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>
> Subject: Re: Jalali Calendar (was: Persian Language)
> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Cc: "Mehdi Alidoost" <mehdi at ashian.ir>
> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 1:17 PM
> Hello,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 schrieb Mehdi Alidoost:
> > You can Convert Persian Calendar to or From Gregorian
> Calendar.
> > 
> > http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/
> 
> thanks for this pointer - the explanation there is
> tremendously good.
> 
> > we use this scenario on our Persian software: on db
> side and all BLL of our
> > codes we used date as original DateTime objects so we
> can use db and
> > language date time functions.
> > 
> > Just when we want to display dates or calendar we
> convert it to Persian
> > calendar .
> 
> This is fine and would work in gnucash as well - with two
> big exceptions: 1. 
> The display widget of the calendar needs to be adapted as
> well. And 2. the 
> recurrence intervals for Scheduled Transactions would have
> to be extended to 
> this calendar as well, see a similar discussion here
> http://old.nabble.com/Non-Gregorian-Calendar-Systems-in-KOrganizer-
> td26782246.html
> 
> I'm not saying this is technically impossible. I'm just
> saying this is 
> definitely a non-trivial task. The programming effort is
> rather on the order 
> of 4 person-weeks, which is more than what the current
> volunteers have 
> available right now. Sorry.
> 
> > By attachment I send a simple C# code, it's a date
> convert class that
> > mojoportal ( http://www.mojoportal.com ) use for
> supporting Persian
> > Calendar.
> > 
> > I'm a c# programmer but if I can , I want to help on
> this issue.
> 
> First we would need a C implementation of the date
> conversion, preferrably as 
> a conversion of GDate from and to jalali.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
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