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

[Nadav Har'El]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Tomer Cohen wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?":
> $ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.judaic
> /*
>  * Judaic Calendar. Maintained by Josef Grosch <jgrosch at mooseriver.com>.
>...
> /*
>  * Jewish calendar for the CE year 2003
>  * 27 Tevet 5763 - 6 Tevet 5764
>  */

In short, this file is absolutely worthless - the Jewish calendar for a
single year! It should not be updated to another single year (as FreeBSD
did for the year 2007 ;-)) - it should be removed altogether, and a proper
algorithm used. I'm really surprised that anyone ever seriously suggested
this approach, and even got it into leading free software distributions.

If some international calendar program must have a list of holiday dates (or
alternative date names - like "29 Nisan" for today) and not an algorithm,
then at least generate such a file with 100 years in history and 100 years
into the future, to at least give it the semblance of a perpetual calendar
(e.g., if I want to find out when Purim was in the year I was born, or next
year).

In short - don't update calendar.judaic - remove it, or find a way to make
it span 100 years, not a single year.

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