temporal-hijri/README.md
Aric Camarata 4dd246f27a fix: build Dates via Date.UTC for hijri-core's UTC-day contract
HijriCalendar.toHijri() previously used new Date(y, m, d) (local-time
constructor). Under hijri-core's new UTC-day contract the engine reads
the UTC calendar day, so on east-of-UTC hosts (e.g. UTC+5) the local
midnight falls on the previous UTC date, producing a one-day-off Hijri
result.

Fix: use Date.UTC(y, m, d) so PlainDate calendar fields land in the
Date's UTC components, matching what hijri-core reads.

Lock-step dependency: this fix requires the unreleased hijri-core change
on fix/utc-day-boundary (commit 3419378). Both packages will be released
together per ADR-013.

Tests: round-trip regression added (2025-03-01 = 1 Ramadan 1446 AH);
all 37 ESM + 9 CJS tests pass at TZ=UTC, TZ=America/New_York,
TZ=Pacific/Auckland.
2026-06-10 16:35:38 -04:00

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temporal-hijri

Temporal Calendar Protocol implementation for the Hijri calendar. Works with the TC39 Temporal proposal (Stage 3) and @js-temporal/polyfill.

Provides UaqCalendar (Umm al-Qura) and FcnaCalendar (FCNA/ISNA) as plug-in calendars for Temporal.PlainDate. The underlying conversion logic comes from hijri-core.

Installation

pnpm add temporal-hijri hijri-core
# Add the polyfill if native Temporal is unavailable:
pnpm add @js-temporal/polyfill

Quick Start

import { Temporal } from '@js-temporal/polyfill';
import { uaqCalendar } from 'temporal-hijri';

const isoDate = Temporal.PlainDate.from('2023-03-23');

console.log(uaqCalendar.year(isoDate));      // 1444
console.log(uaqCalendar.month(isoDate));     // 9  (Ramadan)
console.log(uaqCalendar.day(isoDate));       // 1

// Convert Hijri coordinates to ISO
const ramadan = uaqCalendar.dateFromFields({ year: 1444, month: 9, day: 1 });
console.log(ramadan.toString()); // "2023-03-23"

// Date arithmetic in Hijri space
const { Duration } = Temporal;
const nextMonth = uaqCalendar.dateAdd(isoDate, new Duration(0, 1));
console.log(uaqCalendar.month(nextMonth)); // 10 (Shawwal)

Calendars

Calendar ID Authority Method Coverage
Umm al-Qura hijri-uaq KACST, Saudi Arabia Pre-calculated tables 1318-1500 AH
FCNA/ISNA hijri-fcna Fiqh Council of NA Astronomical new moon Unbounded

Documentation

Full reference in the wiki.

Conversion behavior

Conversions between ISO and Hijri dates are pure calendar-date mappings: the same ISO date always maps to the same Hijri date on every machine, regardless of the host's timezone. Temporal.PlainDate carries no time-of-day information, and the underlying hijri-core engine operates on UTC calendar days, so there is no timezone dependency.

Note: the Islamic calendar begins a new day at sunset, not midnight. This library follows the civil-calendar convention (midnight boundary) used by most software. Sunset day-start determination is out of scope.

License

MIT. Copyright (c) 2026 Aric Camarata. See LICENSE.