Time Warp For Linux

Nowadays, most things we do are just a couple of clicks or screen taps away thanks to the Internet. Take converting between Hijri and Gregorian dates, for example.

All you have to do is Google "Hijri to Gregorian" and you're all set. A way easier way to do this conversion between the Muslim/Islamic calendar and the typical Gregorian calendar is, of course, directly from your computer's desktop.

That's exactly why Time Warp was created. It's a small project, an app built by a son for his father who needed "a quick and easy (offline) way of converting between Gregorian and hijri." That's as good a reason as any if you ask me.

For those who don't know, the Hijri calendar consists out of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

This app is especially useful for those who want to determine the proper days for most Islamic holidays and rituals (such as the annual fasting, or the annual season of the great pilgrimage). It can also be useful for those who do a lot of historic reading.

I already mentioned that it's designed to convert from Hijri to Gregorian (and vice versa, of course).

Another thing this app can do is convert from Gregorian to Hijri year array. The app also allows you to convert between the full dates (for instance, from dd/MM/yyyy to dd/MM/yyyy, and vice versa).

There's also a button for copying the results to the clipboard, and that's about it. Oh, and it's a GTK4 app which means it looks great on GNOME, and it also automatically changes its GUI's appearance based on your system's theme.

Even though, objectively, there's nothing impressive about this app, I do appreciate the fact that it's built for Linux, and even more so, I appreciate the fact that it's built by a young developer for his own father who needed a simpler way of converting Hijri dates into Gregorian (or vice versa).