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by jimmychangas 2734 days ago
Software i18n is still hard to do, even in 2018.

Not completely related to the post, but sometime ago I had to build a calendar widget, in javascript, capable of displaying ISO and Hijri dates simultaneously. It turns out the most reliable way to convert between the two is to use a lookup table, similar to what Java Time does. Algorithmic implementations available started to drift in odd ways after a certain number of days.