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Arabic term or phrase:

04.10.1378 Libyan Calendar

English translation:

4/10/2010

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Dec 16, 2010 11:38
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Arabic term

04.10.1378 Libyan Calendar

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04.10.1378 (Libyan Calendar) Have can we convert this date to Christian Era, for translation? How can we calculate Libyan Calendar (Year/Day/Month) شكرا جزيلا
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4 +3 4/10/2010
5 Monday 13 April 1959

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4/10/2010

As far as I understand what I read, Libya has its own calendar which starts from the year the prophet died (632 A.D) and which uses the Gregorian year and months (only having different names for the months).
So the 4/10, and then you need to add 632 to your year 1378, that's our current year 2010.

Please see reference below. To complicate matters, apparently Libya also has a Miladi calendar, which uses the same method but starts from the prophet's birth year.

To convert a Libyan year to a Gregorian date add 632 (the first year of the Libyan calendar is counted from the year Prophet Muhammad died):
24 Nasir 1369 (add 632) = 24 July 2001

To convert a Libyan miladi year to a Gregorian date add 570 (the year Prophet Muhammad was born):
24 Nasir 1430 M (add 570) = 24 July 2000

http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/acm/appendix/mo...

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Note added at 18 mins (2010-12-16 11:56:49 GMT)
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Sorry, there was an incomplete sentence up there: "So the 4/10" --> So the day and month, 4/10, remain as they are..."
Note from asker:
شكرا جزيلا
شكرا جزيلا
Peer comment(s):

agree Heba Abed : This is a new info for me - very interesting
4 hrs
agree Steve Booth : Spot on Nesrin although I didn't know they had a miladi year in Libya as well.
7 hrs
agree TargamaT team : http://awttany.yoo7.com/montada-f48/topic-t1689.htm
9 hrs
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Monday 13 April 1959

You can use this site

http://www.islamicfinder.org/dateConversion.php



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Note added at 15 mins (2010-12-16 11:53:47 GMT)
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According to Nisrine's note below, this might be totally wrong. Sorry I thought this is the same as the Islamic (Hijri calendar)
Note from asker:
شكرا جزيلا
Peer comment(s):

neutral Nesrin : The Libyan calendar isn't the same as the Hijri calendar though.
1 min
Thanks for this note I never knew it !
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