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Can you add the Ohz Vehadar version of Yerushalmi Daf Yomi? Currently you only show the Vilna version.

Yitzchok G 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago 2

Can you add the Ohz Vehadar version of Yerushalmi Daf Yomi? Currently you only show the Vilna version.

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Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago

It appears that the Oz Vehadar edition is the same as the Schottenstein edition, which we already support. 

You will find it at https://www.hebcal.com/ical/


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how to get daily learning to work in calendar api calls

tobidogger 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 4

I cannot seen to get the dailyLearning to return anything in the HebrewCalendar.calendar call, what is the trick to making this work?

const options = {
    isHebrewYear: false,
    candlelighting: true,
    location: location,
    sedrot: true,
    omer: false,
    start: start,
    end: end,
    useElevation: true,
    hour12: false,
    dailyLearning: { DafYomi: true },
};

const events = HebrewCalendar.calendar(options)

This works partially; I get the info for the date rage I feed in but the data returned looks like...

{"date":{"mm":10,"dd":10,"yy":5785,"rd":739261},"desc":"Fast begins","mask":256,"eventTime":"2025-01-10T14:18:00.000Z","location":{"locationName":null,"latitude":48.8,"longitude":-122.5,"elevation":100,"timeZoneId":"America/Los_Angeles","il":false,"cc":"","geoid":""},"eventTimeStr":"06:18","fmtTime":"06:18","linkedEvent":{"date":{"mm":10,"dd":10,"yy":5785,"rd":739261},"desc":"Asara B'Tevet","mask":256}}

which is great :) but I am expecting the 

dailyLearning: { DafYomi: true}

to add in the daily reading in each date output. I cannot find example of people using this call this way in GITHUB or anywhere so something tells me it doesnt work or is not how this is intended. All it says is that the learning lib is used, which, sure, ok, that makes sense, but what it looks like is you have to take the date and put it through another set of calls to look up the learning iteratively. If this were the case, what is the purpose of adding in a dailyLearning option to the calendar? So I am missing something...

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Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago

Short answer: use

dafYomi: true

Note the camelCase.

Long answer: we need to improve our documentation.

The names of the dailyLearning calendars are published here in the Readme, but we need a few more code examples.

https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal-learning/blob/main/README.md

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outlook

Hal Schloss 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 2

I cannot connect to outlook.live.com from my office computer as it is blocked by my company. I need a directly downloadable .ics file that works with Outlook. Every time I try to open https://download.hebcal.com/ical/jewish-holidays-all.ics it goes to outlook.live.com and I get stuck. How do I get around this?

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1year ONLY option.

Udvarias 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 1

I NEED a 1 year ONLY option for iCalendar!

Hebcal supports this for Apple, Google, and Outlook PC.

Why not across the board, or at least for iCalendar.

Furthermore, if I request a PDF, the file is ONLY 1 year.

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Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago

Thank you for contacting Hebcal.


The 1 year option for Apple, Google, and Outlook is actually already in iCalendar format. If you need a 1-year option for iCalendar, just download one of those choices. If you prefer a perpetual calendar feed, you can continue to use our iCalendar feed option.

Happy Gregorian New year!

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Is there a way to print a monthly calendar in portrait, rather than landscape?

David Marwick 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 2
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Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

Pages generated by the Interactive Jewish Calendar can be printed only in landscape mode on standard 8.5×11″ paper.

To print other sizes or to customize, we recommend downloading/exporting from hebcal.com and importing into a more full-featured desktop or web calendar program, such as one of the following:

  • Outlook CSV – Outlook has extremely powerful print features (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Tri-fold, Calendar Details, Day-Timer, Day Runner, Franklin Day Planner, etc.)
  • Google Calendar – offers Day, Week, Month, or Agenda views with customizable date range, font size, page orientation, and color setting (see also “Print your calendar” from Google support)
  • Apple macOS Calendar – offers Day, Week, Month, List, Selected Events in US Letter and other standard paper formats. Options include All-day events, Timed events, Color/Black and white, and text size controls.

Happy Chanukah and Gregorian New Year!

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How can I obtain the current Hebrew month programically?

lansell6563 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 1

I have a C++ program that given the correct Hebrew month, will be able to select the yartzheits occurring during that month.  So I would like my program to reach out and get the month.

Thanks,

Larry

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Enable the option to only show only "Candle lighting" without Havdalah

ofir2471 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 1

Hi, I want to be able to show only "Candle lighting" without any other events

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Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago

When you customize your calendar, enter "0" (zero) in the Havdalah minutes past sundown box to disable Havdalah times.

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal

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geonameid

hen 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 1

how can I get the fully supported geonameid available list,
the dump file includes thousands of thousands of places, but not all of them return data when querying for Shabat times for example

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Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago

Hebcal.com supports over 100,000 different GeoName IDs. These are world cities with a population of 1,000 or more. 


See cities1000.zip from https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

If you download cities1000.zip it should match what we have on Hebcal.com

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    duplicate records in yartziet anniversary calendar

    mayer 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 1

    I just generated a yartziet anniversary calendar for 8 people. The downloaded file ( both csv & ics files) have near duplicate records for every actual event; one record contains a valarm block, the other one does not. a MAJOR bug.


    additional requests: 

    - ability to set the valarm early notification date/time value

    - ability to turn off the 'description' field in all vevent records

    - ability to set an alternate category for the vevents ( like 'Yarziet' instead of 'Personal' )

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    Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago

    Thanks for using the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar, and thanks for your feedback.


    The "duplicate" events you are seeing are the optional calendar reminders the day before each yahrzeit. This is not a bug, nor are they duplicate events. They are an optional reminder with an alarm to help users light candles the evening the Yahrzeit begins.


    If you don't want these day-before reminders, please simply uncheck the "Calendar reminder day before yahrzeit" box before downloading or subscribing to the calendar feed.

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    Arukh haShulchan Yomi - CSV used by Sefaria available

    micha berger 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 7

    Subject line basically says it all. If you want to add Arukh haShulchan Yomi to the list of daily learning programs that can be downloaded, I can share the CSV Sefaria started with, or similar data in your preferred format.