"Nadav Har'El" <n...@math.technion.ac.il> writes: > I still believe that the whole approach of having holidays of a single year > (it doesn't matter if 2007 or 2010) is wrong. It not only means that the > distro needs to update this list every year, it also means that you can't > find out when next year's holidays are (and sometimes "next year" could be > next month). > > So I'd look for a way to somehow use a "calendar.judaic" file which contains > holidays for multiple years (I have no idea if that's possible).
It must be. I am not an expert on Hebrew calendar, but I use XEmacs calendar and I have never had any problem finding out holiday dates and stuff for any year, not just the current one. A quick check shows that the solution is in /usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/calendar/cal-hebrew.el (there is a corresponding GNU emacs file), which says ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;; cal-hebrew.el --- calendar functions for the Hebrew calendar ;; Copyright (C) 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Nachum Dershowitz <nac...@cs.uiuc.edu> ;; Edward M. Reingold <reing...@cs.uiuc.edu> ;; Maintainer: Glenn Morris <r...@gnu.org> ;; Keywords: calendar ;; Human-Keywords: Hebrew calendar, calendar, diary <GNU license stuff snipped - OG> ;;; Synched up with: FSF Emacs 22 CVS 2007-03-30 ;;; Commentary: ;; This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and ;; diary.el that deal with the Hebrew calendar. ;; Technical details of all the calendrical calculations can be found in ;; ``Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition'' by Edward M. Reingold ;; and Nachum Dershowitz, Cambridge University Press (2001). ;; Comments, corrections, and improvements should be sent to ;; Edward M. Reingold Department of Computer Science ;; (217) 333-6733 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ;; reing...@cs.uiuc.edu 1304 West Springfield Avenue ;; Urbana, Illinois 61801 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; So, the people who implemented it for X?Emacs wrote a book on how to do it - easy to find on Amazon as http://www.amazon.com/Calendrical-Calculations-Nachum-Dershowitz/dp/0521702380/ref=dp_ob_title_bk?ie=UTF8&qid=1274819022&sr=1-1 - and I do not see anything in the code that would limit it to a particular year. Without any further research, I have to agree with Nadav - anybody who does anything year-specific does something wrong. By the way, the code seems to give the right "parasha" name - another question that I recall was asked on this forum relatively recently. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
