Function: calendar-islamic-date-string

calendar-islamic-date-string is an autoloaded and byte-compiled function defined in cal-islam.el.gz.

Signature

(calendar-islamic-date-string &optional DATE)

Documentation

String of Islamic date before sunset of Gregorian DATE.

Returns the empty string if DATE is pre-Islamic. Defaults to today's date if DATE is not given. Driven by the variable calendar-date-display-form.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-islam.el.gz
;;;###cal-autoload
(defun calendar-islamic-date-string (&optional date)
  "String of Islamic date before sunset of Gregorian DATE.
Returns the empty string if DATE is pre-Islamic.
Defaults to today's date if DATE is not given.
Driven by the variable `calendar-date-display-form'."
  (let ((calendar-month-name-array calendar-islamic-month-name-array)
        (islamic-date (calendar-islamic-from-absolute
                       (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
                        (or date (calendar-current-date))))))
    (if (< (calendar-extract-year islamic-date) 1)
        ""
      (calendar-date-string islamic-date nil t))))