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Chapter 5: Two calendars (Gregorian & Hijri)
5-2(38) Before or after Hijri 1400 (Gregorian 1980)
Hijri which started on July 16, 622 AD celebrated 1st
of Muharram, 1400 on November 21, 1979 AD. It was the last year of the 14th
century of Hijri. The 14th century of Hijri started on November 12, 1882 AD. The
year of Hijri is shorter than 11 days compared with the Gregorian calendar. The
length of one century of Hijri, therefore, is three years shorter than Gregorian.
Before the 19th century AD, ordinary
citizen in the Western countries believed the superstition that there would be
various disasters at the end of one century. But in the age of modern science
of the 20th century, such superstition had gone away. There was a small noise
that the computer might be troubled by "Year 2000 problem" when the
time passed away from December 31st,1999 to January 1st,
2000.