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 <jgro...@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. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Apr 13 2010, 29 Nisan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |As far as we know, our computer has never http://nadav.harel.org.il |had an undetected error. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
