NAME

Calendar::Persian - Interface to Persian Calendar.

VERSION

Version 0.45

DESCRIPTION

The Persian calendar is solar, with the particularity that the year defined by two successive, apparent passages of the Sun through the vernal (spring) equinox. It is based on precise astronomical observations, and moreover uses a sophisticated intercalation system, which makes it more accurate than its younger European counterpart,the Gregorian calendar. It is currently used in Iran as the official calendar of the country. The starting point of the current Iranian calendar is the vernal equinox occurred on Friday March 22 of the year A.D. 622. Persian Calendar for the month of Farvadin year 1390.

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                             Farvardin   [1394 BE]                                             |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
|    Yekshanbeh |     Doshanbeh |    Seshhanbeh | Chaharshanbeh |   Panjshanbeh |         Jomeh |       Shanbeh |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
|                                                                                               |             1 |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
|             2 |             3 |             4 |             5 |             6 |             7 |             8 |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
|             9 |            10 |            11 |            12 |            13 |            14 |            15 |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
|            16 |            17 |            18 |            19 |            20 |            21 |            22 |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
|            23 |            24 |            25 |            26 |            27 |            28 |            29 |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
|            30 |            31 |                                                                               |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+

The package App::calendr provides command line tool calendr to display the supported calendars on the terminal.

SYNOPSIS

use strict; use warnings;
use Calendar::Persian;

# prints current month calendar
print Calendar::Persian->new, "\n";
print Calendar::Persian->new->current, "\n";

# prints persian month calendar for the first month of year 1394.
print Calendar::Persian->new({ month => 1, year => 1394 }), "\n";

# prints persian month calendar in which the given gregorian date falls in.
print Calendar::Persian->new->from_gregorian(2015, 1, 14), "\n";

# prints persian month calendar in which the given julian date falls in.
print Calendar::Persian->new->from_julian(2457102.5), "\n";

# prints current month persian calendar in SVG format.
print Calendar::Persian->new->as_svg;

# prints current month persian calendar in text format.
print Calendar::Persian->new->as_text;

PERSIAN MONTHS

+-------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Month | Persian Name                                                      |
+-------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|     1 | Farvardin                                                         |
|     2 | Ordibehesht                                                       |
|     3 | Xordad                                                            |
|     4 | Tir                                                               |
|     5 | Amordad                                                           |
|     6 | Sahrivar                                                          |
|     7 | Mehr                                                              |
|     8 | Aban                                                              |
|     9 | Azar                                                              |
|    10 | Dey                                                               |
|    11 | Bahman                                                            |
|    12 | Esfand                                                            |
+-------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

PERSIAN DAYS

+-------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Index | Persian Name  | English Name                                      |
+-------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|     0 | Yekshanbeh    | Sunday                                            |
|     1 | Doshanbeh     | Monday                                            |
|     2 | Seshhanbeh    | Tuesday                                           |
|     3 | Chaharshanbeh | Wednesday                                         |
|     4 | Panjshanbeh   | Thursday                                          |
|     5 | Jomeh         | Friday                                            |
|     6 | Shanbeh       | Saturday                                          |
+-------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------+

CONSTRUCTOR

It expects month and year optionally.By default it gets current Persian month and year.

METHODS

current()

Returns current month of the Persian calendar.

from_gregorian($year, $month, $day)

Returns persian month calendar in which the given gregorian date falls in.

from_julian($julian_date)

Returns persian month calendar in which the given julian date falls in.

as_svg($month, $year)

Returns calendar for the given $month and $year rendered in SVG format. If $month and $year missing, it would return current calendar month.

as_text($month, $year)

Returns color coded Persian calendar for the given $month and $year. If $month and $year missing, it would return current calendar month.

AUTHOR

Mohammad S Anwar, <mohammad.anwar at yahoo.com>

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/manwar/Calendar-Persian

SEE ALSO

Calendar::Bahai
Calendar::Hijri
Calendar::Gregorian
Calendar::Saka

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-calendar-persian at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Calendar-Persian. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Calendar::Persian

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2011 - 2016 Mohammad S Anwar.

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