From thielr@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE Fri Nov 30 23:58:01 2001 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fB17vtn174270 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:57:55 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Nov 30 23:57:55 2001 -0800 Received: from Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE (Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE [137.248.1.76]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id fB17vs919316 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:57:54 -0800 Received: from e6y6t5.Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE (msc1051.staff-ppp-sc.Uni-Marburg.DE [62.27.166.51]) by Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fB17vXj57322; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:57:34 +0100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011201084952.00a298d0@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE> X-Sender: thielr@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 08:54:54 +0100 To: classics@u.washington.edu, "'classics@u.washington.edu'" From: Rainer Thiel Subject: Re: Ramadan In-Reply-To: <8C1D549B4324D51181010090277A49DE163A07@exchange.apsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-ECS-MailScanner: Found to be clean At 04:52 01.12.01, Pesely, George wrote: >I don't have the exact dates for either 1973 or 1979, but after six years >the month of Ramadan would begin about two months earlier by the Gregorian >calendar, so August 1979 sounds about right. According to the Gnu Emacs calendar function (which is usually very exact) Ramadan began on Friday, September 28 in 1973, and on Thursday, July 26 in 1979 (both dates Gregorian). -- Priv.-Doz. Dr. Rainer Thiel FB 10, Klass. Phil. - D-35032 Marburg, Germany (EU) thielr@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~thielr/ .