
In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Islamic Timer for BeOS
IslamicTimer is a software package consisting of programs for generating
Islamic Calendars, translating Gregorian/Julian dates to/from dates in
the Islamic Calendar, computing prayer time schedules, and for determining
the direction of the Qiblah. It also includes a prayers time reminder/
notification service.
Islamic Timer was ported to BeOS by Waleed Kadous (waleed@cse.unsw.edu.au). This port is a temporary solution until a proper BeOS interface is developed.
BeOS Specific Information
The BeOS version offers all the programs discussed below in the bin/ directory. Copy them to somewhere in your path (e.g. /boot/bin or
/boot/local/bin - the latter is preferable as it makes BeOS upgrades simpler). The documentation is in the doc/ directory. BeOS source for the program, including modified makefiles can be found in the tar file Itimer21-Be.tar. You may delete this file if you do not want the source.
Included software
This is release 2.1 of IslamicTimer. It includes the following:
- hdate
- hdate prints the current Islamic (Hijri) date
and translates dates between the Hijri calendar and the
Gregorian/Julian Calendar. hcal prints calendars
(for a Hijri/Gregorian month or an entire year) with
both common and Hijri dates.
- praytime
- a program that generates
Islamic prayer time schedules and computes the
direction of the Qiblah for any location.
The schedules can be generated for both Hijri or
Gregorian months or years.
- premind
- a program that works in conjunction
with praytime and provides prayers time notification/
reminder service.
All the programs are Copyrighted to Waleed A. Muhanna. Permission for nonprofit use and
redistribution of the software and its documentation is granted without
fee. It is under this permission that this port to the BeOS is made possible.
Complements, comments, suggestions, fixes, and additions for the original version can be sent to:
Waleed A. Muhanna
P.O. Box 151048
Columbus, OH 43215
wmuhanna@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Comments about the BeOS port can be sent to
Waleed Kadous
waleed@cse.unsw.edu.au