Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar

Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar by valarauca1 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:00AM (#13220965)

Do computer systems in the Kingdom of Saud report date/times according the lunar calendar?

Or did they?

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Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar by sleepychu on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:04AM (#13221009)

The Islamic Calendar has had support in Java since 8 introduced the Date and Time API. I don't know if OS support was around, Wikipedia is sparse on the topic.

[#] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar#Computer_supp...

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Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar by douche on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:05AM (#13221025)

At least the Saudi Arabian bank that I've worked with did not use a lunar calendar on their servers. At least as far as I know, and I'm sure it would have come up, our application doing lots of date/time manipulation and scheduling.

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Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar by robotmlg on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:17AM (#13221162)

Calendar on Mac, and I'm pretty sure on iOS too, lets you show the Islamic, Chinese, or Hebrew calendar along with the Gregorian calendar

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Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar by Lanthanide on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:09AM (#13228253)

They did and still do- optionally. But the system probably uses Gregorian underneath it all, using the Hijri calendar just for display and maybe file timestamps (been a while since I had mine set to Hijri so I'm not certain).

It can be enabled pretty easily in Windows 10: http://windowsclan.com/switch-to-hijri-calendar-in-windows-1...

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