Calendar Description
The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar used throughout the Arabic and Muslim areas.
Use Case
This version is used in some Microsoft applications, notably Excel.
Definition
| Record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | month | day | wsday |
The year consists of twelve lunar months which in a common year alternate between of 30 and 29 days. In a leap year, the 12th month has 30 days instead of the usual 29. A common year has 354 days and a leap year 355 days.
Leap years occur on a 30 year cycle in years 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26 and 29.
The Epoch is set at the astronomical epoch, which is:-
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| i | year | month | day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| j | year | month | day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 622 | 7 | 15 |
| jdn | day |
|---|---|
| 1948439 |
Script
| Default Script |
|---|
| scheme ims { name "Islamic Microsoft Hijri"; base islamic IIa; grammar i; } |
The scheme uses the "i" grammar as defined for the Islamic Tabular calendar.
