omar-khayyam v1.0.0

Khayyam 🪐 🏛

A zero-dependency lightweight date conversion library for most popular calendars Jalali, Gregorian, Islamic

Who is Omar Khayyam?

He was an Iranian polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. He was commissioned to build an observatory at Isfahan and reform the Persian calendar. Finally, the Jalali calendar was created by him as the most accurate calculated calendar. Read more about Omar Khayyam at Wikipedia

What is Khayyam?

This is a JavaScript library written in TypeScript. Using this library, you can convert Jalali, Gregorian and Islamic dates to each other.

Khayyam is released under the MIT license & supports modern environments.

Installation

# Yarn users
yarn add omar-khayyam

# NPM users
npm i omar-khayyam

# PNPM users
pnpm add omar-khayyam

Date conversion usage

import { Khayyam } from 'omar-khayyam'

const gregorian = new Khayyam('gregorian', '2023-6-19')
const jalali = new Khayyam('jalali', '1402-3-29')
const islamic = new Khayyam('islamic', '1444-11-30')

const gregoryToJalali = gregorian.toJalali().date
const islamicToJalali = islamic.toJalali().date
// { year: 1444, month: 11, day: 30, weekDay: 1 }

const gregoryToIslamic = gregorian.toIslamic().date
const jalaliToIslamic = jalali.toIslamic().date
// { year: 1402, month: 3, day: 29, weekDay: 1 }

const jalaliToGregory = jalali.toGregorian().date
const islamicToGregory = islamic.toGregorian().date
// { year: 2023, month: 6, day: 19, weekDay: 1 }

const gregoryToJulian = gregorian.toJulianDay()
const jalaliToJulian = gregorian.toJulianDay()
const islamicToJulian = gregorian.toJulianDay()
// 2460114.5

Date utilities usage

Currently only one additional date util is provided. Wait for future releases :)

1. Leap year detection

import { Khayyam } from 'omar-khayyam'

const gregorian = new Khayyam('gregorian', '2024-1-1')
const jalali = new Khayyam('jalali', '1402-1-1')
const islamic = new Khayyam('islamic', '1445-1-1')

gregorian.isLeapYear // true
jalali.isLeapYear // false
islamic.isLeapYear // true