On 14 April 2010 09:25, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote: > 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! >
I agree with your assessment about hand-editing, but I wanted to be sure before I get in too deep. Send to me the code, I will try to get something useful out of it. Unless it's Perl. Don't send me Perl! > 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? > I agree, ideally the file would not need to exist. However, we do not live in an ideal world. Lke you I consider at least two generations of living humans in each direction to be the minimum acceptable time frame that a usable calendar would support. > Finally, I'm at a loss - what is this file good for anyway? Which applications > use it? > Presumably Korganizer, which has a Jewish Date plugin. I will ask on the KDE-PIM list. See also this post: http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/ethiopean_and_coptic_calendar_systems_for_44 -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
