To: quidnunc
do they use the same calendar in their offical work as we do??
july 1 2001??
420 posted on
12/14/2003 12:18:58 PM PST by
camas
To: camas
They may use the hijra calendar-it is the lunar cycle based on Mohammads pilgrimage to Mecca.
To: camas
camas wrote:
do they use the same calendar in their offical work as we do?? july 1 2001??The memo was undoubtedly in Arabic so everything is a translation.
Even if they call it something different it would have to be translated into English and the Julian calender to be understandable to us.
427 posted on
12/14/2003 12:33:38 PM PST by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: camas
do they use the same calendar in their offical work as we do?? july 1 2001?? Don't know, but don't you suppose that the newspaper could have translated the date in the same way they translated the rest of the memo from Arabic. After all, the 12th of Aquadalaba, or whatever wouldn't mean anything to the Brit readership.
452 posted on
12/14/2003 9:12:04 PM PST by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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