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  13. Ahad   - Single
  14. Vahhab - Bountiful
  15. Vidad  - Affection
  16. Badi   - Beginning
  17. Bahi   - Luminous
  18. Abha   - Most Luminous
  19. Vahid  - Unity

=head2 MONTH NAMES

The names of the months in the Baha'i (Badi) calendar were given by the Bab, who
drew them from the nineteen names of God invoked in a prayer said during the
month of fasting in Shi'ih Islam. They are:

  1.  Baha       - Splendour (21 March - 8 April)
  2.  Jalal      - Glory (9 April - 27 April)
  3.  Jamal      - Beauty (28 April - 16 May)
  4.  'Azamat    - Grandeur (17 May - 4 June)
  5.  Nur        - Light (5 June - 23 June)
  6.  Rahmat     - Mercy (24 June - 12 July)
  7.  Kalimat    - Words (13 July - 31 July)

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=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Date::Calc>

L<Exporter>

L<Lingua::EN::Numbers>

L<Lingua::EN::Numbers::Years>

L<http://calendar.bahaiq.com/>

=head1 TO DO

Base the date computation on the time of day (Baha'i day begins at sunset).

Make this a L<DateTime> module.

Support cycles and Kull-i-Shay.

Overload localtime and gmtime, just to be cool?