Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

kobi zamir kobi.zamir at gmail.com
Wed May 26 14:06:31 IDT 2010


In the script Ron suggested he can set israel or diaspora holidays/parashot:

h = Hdate()
h.set_israel # for isreal
h.set_diaspora() # for diaspora

and the functions:
h.get_parasha_string(0) and get_holyday_string(0)
will return the hoydays and parashot for israel or diaspora respectively.

see:
http://libhdate.sourceforge.net/documentation_cpp/html/classhdate_1_1Hdate.html

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010, Stan Goodman wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?":
>> But parahot are not always the same in Israel and in the Diaspora.
>
> Right - in Israel in the Diaspora both the parashot and holidays are
> slightly different in subtle ways, but both have clear rules. All these
> means is that whatever code or file you have will need to have two options:
> jewish_diaspora and jewish_israel. Just like the "spanish" locale has
> different versions for Spain and Argentina, with subtle differences between
> them - which to the people of these places don't look all that subtle.
>
> see http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/docs/reading.pdf for a brief
> but complete overview of calculating the parashot.
>
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