Talk:Lunar calendar
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Question: If the Islamic calander can not be used to determine season then how do farmers sow the seeds in different Islamic countries.
Today I can understand they can use the Gregorian calendar because both are available, but how was the situation a centuries back?
Any idea?
I have no idea what was actually used, but do have ideas about possible ways. For example one could reckon the same time of solar year to occur 11 days later next lunar year. If this puts that date into the next month of the lunar year one works it out as though the month had 30 days. About once every 21 lunar years it would need to b 12 days later rather than 11 days later.
Example:
9 Safar 1426, 20 Safar 1427, 1 Rabi I 1428, 12 Rabi I 1429, 23 Rabi I 1430, 4 Rabi II 1431, etc..
Karl 3 November 2005 (UT)
It has been suggested that the article Lunar year which is about a 12-month lunar year be merged with this article. I point out that a lunar calendar can in principle have a year of any number of months or no year at all. If the need to merge is very strong, I'd suggest placing its own contents in a section headed 'Lunar Year or 12 Month Lunar Year. Also the article links Lunar Year when mentioning the Islamic Calendar.
I'm happy for the articles to remain separate.
Karl Palmen 8 September 2006 09:10 UT
