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converting gregorian to hijri date

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I want to convert from Gregorian to Hijri(Islamic) date and I need a java class for this converting. I want to give it an Gregorian date in format
of "yyyy/mm/dd" as string and it give me the Hijri date in the same format. can anyone help me?

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anony
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Mar 31 '13 at 11:04

Have you tried something? Have you faced sny particular problem? araknoid Mar 31 '13 at 11:06

I tried some codes found by searching but non of them didn't work probably. anony Apr 4 '13 at 8:03

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Firstly, separate out the conversion part from the formatting/parsing part. You can deal with those easily later - and there are lots of
questions on Stack Overflow about that.
Personally I'd use Joda Time, which typically makes life much simpler. For example:

import org.joda.time.Chronology;
import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
import org.joda.time.chrono.IslamicChronology;
import org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Chronology iso = ISOChronology.getInstanceUTC();
Chronology hijri = IslamicChronology.getInstanceUTC();

LocalDate todayIso = new LocalDate(2013, 3, 31, iso);

LocalDate todayHijri = new LocalDate(todayIso.toDateTimeAtStartOfDay(),
hijri);
System.out.println(todayHijri); // 1434-05-19

(It feels like there should be a cleaner way of converting dates between chronologies, but I couldn't find one immediately.)

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Jon Skeet
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Mar 31 '13 at 11:24

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+1 I like your way better, short code. On the one I posted is just the way how it works knowbody Mar 31 '13 at 11:30

+knowbody I don't know why but this code bring me 1434-05-18 not 1434-05-19? how can I fix this problem? anony Apr 4 '13 at 11:09
@anony: There are two different possiblities here - one is that you're expecting the wrong epoch (there are astronomical and civil epochs) and the other is
that you need to use an IslamicChronology with a different leap year pattern. Look at the docs for IslamicChronology for details. Jon Skeet Apr 4 '13 at
11:13
@Jon Skeet, how to convert from hijri to georgian ? and can we set time to LocalDate object ? MahmoudS Nov 7 '13 at 11:14

@MahmoudSaleh: A LocalDate doesn't have a time - it's just a date. You can add a LocalTime to it to get a LocalDateTime though. Not sure the best way to
convert in Joda Time - probably use the LocalDate(Object, Chronology) constructor. Jon Skeet Nov 7 '13 at 11:20

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Java 8 is enough now with Hejrah Date

(Related to Prophet Hejrah: ) :

Snippet :
import java.time.*;
import java.time.chrono.HijrahChronology;
Date date=new Date(); ///
Calendar cl=Calendar.getInstance();
cl.setTime(date);
HijrahDate islamyDate=HijrahChronology.INSTANCE.date(LocalDate.of(cl.get(Calendar.YEAR),cl.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1, cl.get(Calendar.DATE)));
//OUTPUT: Hijrah-umalqura AH 1436-02-03

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Abdennour TOUMI
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just use Google for example here copied from the link given:

import java.util.Calendar;
/**
* Gregorian-Hijri Dates Converter
*
*
* This Code is used to convert Gregorian dates to Hijri Dates
*
*
*/
public class DateHigri {
static double gmod(double n,double m) {
return ((n % m) + m) % m;
}
static double[] kuwaiticalendar(boolean adjust) {
Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance();
int adj=0;
if(adjust){

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knowbody
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I think I'd rather use an existing library than have to include all of that code in my own project :) Jon Skeet Mar 31 '13 at 11:28

I would do the same, here you can see how it works ;) knowbody Mar 31 '13 at 11:30

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Mar 31 '13 at 11:10

it don't work right.it bring similar dates for some days. for ex. I have changed it's input to get string and it made same date for "2014/1/29" and "2014/2/1".
however I prefer to use a library than all this code. thank you for your help ;) anony Apr 4 '13 at 8:10
It is not Kuwaiti calendar . it is an islamic Clandar . Abdennour TOUMI Nov 25 '14 at 5:34
it's not correct Muhammad Dyas Yaskur May 10 '15 at 22:44

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Try ummalqura-calendar which implements java.util.Calendar.

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Using this calendar you can convert from Umm Al-Qura to Gregorian and vice versa, and also you can use java.text.SimpleDateFormat to
format dates.

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