<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>libhdate release announcement (version 1.6)<br>===============================<br>http://libhdate.sourceforge.net<br><br>LibHdate is a small library for the Hebrew calendar, dates, holidays,<br>and reading sequence. It is written in C and includes bindings for<br>pascal, perl, python, php, ruby.<br><br>hcal and hdate are small example command line programs, written in C.<br><br>This release brings many new options, features, and bug fixes to the two example<br>programs hcal and hdate. The changes to the underlying function library include<br>a few minor bug fixes, deprecation of a series of string functions in favor<br>of a single new one with better memory allocation, and hard-coding of core<br>elements of the Hebrew localization so that Hebrew can be displayed in all<br>locales.<br><br>Some selected
highlights:<br><br>* config files for storing defaults<br>* user-defined menus (defined in config file)<br>* sunset awareness, based on coordinates given or system timezone and guesswork<br>* optional easier entry of coordinates (N, S, E, W, dd:mm:ss)<br>* minhag customization for Shabbat times<br>* Hebrew information in Hebrew characters (for all locales)<br>* hcal can display in 3-month mode, in color, with footnotes and Shabbat information<br>* hdate can output data in csv format, suitable for spreadsheets, awk, etc.<br>* hdate has many format enhancements<br><br>Here's the LibHdate project page:<br>http://libhdate.sourceforge.net<br><br>or you could just go directly to the download page:<br>https://sourceforge.net/projects/libhdate/files/latest/download</span></div><br><div>boruch-baum@users.sourceforge.net<br>keyserver: hkp://keys.gnupg.net<br><br></div><div>fingerprint: B625 CAEF 715D 400D E0F0 2017 ACD4 FFAC 4F94 ADB8</div></div></body></html>