About world-calendar.com world-calendar.com is a web-based perpetual calendar. It contains holidays of over 75 countries and holidays of four religions: Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Orthodox. In addition, it includes four other calendrical systems, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and Islamic, all of which are relative to Gregorian. Maggie Yeung is the primary developer of world-calendar.com. She has been consulting in software development in the Silicon Valley since 1993, and her clients have included some of the biggest high-tech companies in the area, e.g., Hewlett-Packard, Nortel Network, Netscape, and Sun Microsystems. Prior to consulting, Maggie worked for Hewlett-Packard for about seven years as a software engineer. After completed a web-based project at Sun Microsystems in May 2000, Maggie decided to devote the rest of the year building a world calendar web site. Because the nature of the content has international appeal, it lends itself to a multi-linqual web site, and that is where Maggie's experience and interest are, building multi-linqual web sites. Also, intrigued by the book "Calendrical Calculations", authored by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward Reingold, that it provides the algorithms to convert dates among different calendrical systems. It makes her job of creating a world calendar much easier. The holiday information came from a variety of sources: - "Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary, 2nd Edition", by Helene Henderson and Sue Ellen Thompson.
- "World Holiday & Time Guide", 1997 and 1998, published by J. P. Morgan. (The publication was discontinued after 1998)
- "World Travel Guide" by Michael Hart and Kate Meere, March 1, 2000, Columbus Press.
- Microsoft's Outlook 2000's calendar program.¹
Since many holidays are derived from algorithms, it's impossible to pinpoint the exact day when the holiday is observed. Furthermore, many religious holidays are based on the observations of the moon, which may vary depending on the location of the country. Therefore, the holidays should be used only as a guideline. world-calendar.com is not responsible for any damages caused by inaccuracy or omission of information. To keep this calendar up-to-date, please send your comments to webmaster@world-calendar.com. For technical details about the design and implementation of this web site, please visit worldcal_tech_details.html. ¹ Microsoft and Outlook 2000 are trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Copyright 1995-1999.
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