| Subject: | obsolete item |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:20:19 +0200 |
| To: | bug-Calendar-Bahai [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | "Sen & Sonja" <senmcglinn [...] gmail.com> |
On July 10, 2014, the Universal House of Justice announced three
decisions regarding the Badi` (Bahai) calendar, which will affect the
dates of Feasts and Holy Days. Naw Ruz will usually fall on March
20th, which means that all the Feast days will be one day earlier,
and the births of the Bab and of Baha'u'llah will be celebrated on
two consecutive days in the Autumn. The changes take effect from the
next Bahai New Year, from sunset on March 20, 2015. The definitive
tables showing the new dates have not yet been released (as of
September 24, 2014), but there is a preliminary discussion here.
<http://senmcglinn.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/changes-in-bahai-calendar-
what-how-why/>.
I am afraid this will mean complete recoding : the best thing would
be to put the note above in place of the present page, and wait for
the definitive tables to come out. Quite a few points of detail are
not specified in the announcement of the UHJ's decisions, which could
make a difference to the date of Ridvan in rare cases when the
equinox falls close to the time of sunset in Tehran.
Regards
~sen