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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:10:38 -0600
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On 1/17/25 5:15 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> owever, I do suspect that the problem of accurately rectifying Julian
> dates to various solar/lunar calendars has been solved long ago.


Of course. It's just that instead of sitting down and doing a back of 
the envelop calculation to convert dates every time I encountered a lazy 
ass author who would use lunar and solar dates in the same article, 
confusing the heck out of readers, I decided to program the calculations 
once and for all. When I wrote the calendar program no such software 
accessible to people in general existed to do that. Years later some 
Arab wrote the "Hdate" program and provided it free to public, but It 
could not go back as far as I would need, and it only converted to and 
from Iranian solar and Islamic lunar calendars (if I remember it 
correctly). For something like a few decades after that I could not 
still find one suitable enough for me, and kept using my own program.

And now I'm here, still using it :) I'm not sure anymore cause I've not 
checked it out recently, that there is or there isn't a calendar 
converter as good as my own, that's available free to public.

Mine has minimal user interface of course. It is very utilitarian. Uses 
the same screen that you see in DOS.

I have two versions of it. One that runs on Windows, and one that only 
runs on DOS. Once I asked Relf how that was possible. He didn't, or 
couldn't, answer it.