Persian Calendar with Simulated PHP Methods in C#

Mohammad Dayyan

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Jun 13, 2008

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Generate Persian Calendar with simulated PHP methods

Introduction

I was already using PHP for programming; I was using the following methods for date:

time
mktime
date

Since I'm using C#, I always like to write a class with these methods because usage of these methods is much easier than C# classes (in my opinion). Finally, I wrote this class and you can use it. You can use this library like PHP methods (time, mktime, date).

MohammadDayyanCalendar Methods

```
public uint Time()
```
Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).

public string Date(string Format, double Seconds, bool persianNumbers)

Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given double second. You can see all supported formats in the Persian document.

```
public int Mktime(int year, int month, int day, int hour, int minute, int second)
```
Returns the Unix timestamp corresponding to the arguments given. This time is an integer containing the number of seconds between the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) and the time specified.

Using the Code

Let's see how we can work with this class.

Add this class to your project references:

Now we can use this DLL in our own project:

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    MDCalendar mdCalendar = new MDCalendar();
    DateTime date = DateTime.Now;
    TimeZone time = TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone;
    TimeSpan difference = time.GetUtcOffset(date);
    uint currentTime = mdCalendar.Time() + (uint)difference.TotalSeconds;
    label1.Text = mdCalendar.Date("W D M Y G   ....   d E Z A", currentTime, true);
    label2.Text = mdCalendar.Date("H : i : s", currentTime, true);
}

Enjoy!

History

14^th June, 2008: First post
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