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

[Nadav Har'El]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?":
> I meant in terms of actually generating that file. It looks like itwould
> need to be hand edited, which I can do once a year, but not for 200 years

Why would it need to be hand-edited? Calculating the Gregorian dates of the
Jewish years can be completely automatic. First try to simply use existing
free software out there (e.g., hcal, luach) you can try looking at its code,
and at worst I can try to dig up the Jewish calendar code that I once wrote
but never published. But you shouldn't need to do anything manually!

The bigger question, I think, is - can this "judaic.calendar" file contain
data for several years, or just a single year? Like I said, I consider the
data for a single year to be *worthless*, and I wouldn't even bother
updating it. After all, what do you do in December when you want to plan
your Pesach vacation, and mistakenly find the date of last year's Pesach?

Finally, I'm at a loss - what is this file good for anyway? Which applications
use it?

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