API not working anymore?
for many cities the API is not working anymore,
for example
https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?v=1&cfg=json&maj=on&min=on&mod=off&nx=on&year=now&month=x&ss=on&mf=on&c=off&geo=city&city=DE-Stuttgart&s=on&lg=en&d=on&o=on&i=off
one more is Strasbourg, but there are more of them,
will you do something with that, or will it stay that way?
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal API. We're sorry to hear that you are having difficulty getting API results for Stuttgart and Strasbourg.
You can use URLs like these to get Shabbat times for these cities.
Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
Please note that the preferred way to access world cities is to use the GeoNames IDs as we've done above.
The following options are available for our APIs:
- geo=geoname – location specified by GeoNames.org numeric ID
- requires additional parameter geonameid=3448439
- Hebcal.com supports approximately 47,000 different GeoNames IDs. These are cities with a population of 5000+. See cities5000.zip from https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/.
- geo=zip – location specified by United States ZIP code
- requires additional parameter zip=90210
- geo=city – location specified by one of the Hebcal.com legacy city identifiers
- requires additional parameter city=GB-London
- geo=pos – location specified by latitude, longitude, and timezone. Requires additional 3 parameters:
- latitude=[-90.0 to 90.0] – latitude in decimal format (e.g.
31.76904or-23.5475) - longitude=[-180.0 to 180.0] – longitude decimal format (e.g.
35.21633or-46.63611) - tzid=TimezoneIdentifier. See List of tz database time zones. Be sure to use the “TZ database name” such as America/New_York or Europe/Paris, not a UTC offset
- latitude=[-90.0 to 90.0] – latitude in decimal format (e.g.
Please create a calendar for Bournemouth UK
There are several thousand Jews in Bournemouth and Poole, and in the summer we get lots more coming down from London. We are launching our very updated website this week and having a HEBCAL version for Shabbat times would be great. The alternative is that we have to update times by hand and eventually someone will make a mistake.
Thanks
H Freeman
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal
We already include Bournemouth in our list of cities:
Not seeing Triennial and weird size of font...
This might be an Israel-specific problem: The Torah home page is now showing up (on 2 different computers) in extra large size (only a few words per screen) - and when I manage to find the parasha, it makes me click through to diaspora to see the triennial, and even then only that week, not all 3 years) There were issues with this for Israel based computers in the past, but then it went back to "normal" - and I hope it can again!
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for the bug report!
We've fixed the font size issue; please refresh and it should solve the problem.
We have also fixed the links on Israel Torah reading pages to point to the Diaspora versions for Triennial more reliably.
Navigate from month to month
How does one navigate from month to month when looking at a calendar month? Looking at March 2022, I could not find any link to click to get to April 2022. Moving from month to month seems like something any calendar system should do.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for posting this question.
We have revised the "month view" on our holiday pages and moved the previous/next navigation buttons from the right side of the page to the left side of the page to improve their visibility. See below for a screenshot.
In addition, if you are using a device with a keyboard can use the arrow keys (left and right) to go backwards or forwards a month.
We hope these changes help improve the usability of the website!
Birthday in Adar II and also Gregorian Leap Year - Wrong Conversion date
Hi
Seems to be a bug, I entered a Hebrew Birthday 27th Adar II 5736, the conversion date comes out March 29th 1976, the actual birthday was March 30th.
1976 was also a Gregorian Leap year, so the dates (after Feb 29th) if calculated correctly should be shifted +1 day
https://www.hebcal.com/converter?hd=27&hm=Adar2&hy=5736&h2g=1
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
We believe the date conversions provided by Hebcal are correct.
The 27th of Adar II, 5736 was in fact Monday, 29 March 1976.
Tuesday, 30 March 1976 corresponds to the 28th of Adar II, 5736.
Gregorian leap years are already correctly accounted for in date conversions. For example, note the date conversions for February 28 and February 29 in 1976:
https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=28&gm=2&gy=1976&g2h=1
https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=29&gm=2&gy=1976&g2h=1
If you can find another date conversion source that disagrees with our calculations, please post the reference here so we can investigate further.
Hi, thanks for writing to us.
Hebcal is a free Jewish calendar and holiday web site, accessible from https://www.hebcal.com
Hebdate premium is not affiliated in any way with Hebcal.
We'd suggest you contact the developer of Hebdate and ask them for support.
Hi, thanks for using the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar.
If you know the Hebrew but not the Gregorian date, use the Hebrew Date Converter to get the Gregorian date and then come back to the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar page.
Sat, 26 March 2022 after sunset is in fact the next Hebrew day, e.g. no longer Shabbat, so in fact it is correctly Parashat Tazria.
Sat, 26 March 2022 before sunset is Shabbat, Parashat Shmini.
Please examine the "after sunset" box when using the date converter and remember to check the box only when you wish to convert a date after sunset.
Shaabat 19 march 2022 error of Parasha
Shabbat 19 march 2022 is ParashatTzav and not shemini !
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
Our website agrees with you and we publish Tzav for this coming Shabbat. Where did you see a page that said 19 March 2022 is Parshat Shemini?
Hi, thanks for the excellent explanation. We're so very sorry for any confusion or difficulty you experienced here.
In November 2020, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly voted to change how triennial Torah readings work in year 3 for some of the Torah portions.
The CJLS modified the triennial cycle for some combined parshiyot to change the reading for year 3 to be the third section of the parashah.
The following parshiyot have been modified:
Further details are available in the responsa: Modification of the Triennial Cycle Readings for Combined Parashot in Certain Years, Rabbi Miles B. Cohen, November 16, 2020
We were unaware of the CJLS responsa for about a year -- and then, in December 2021 we updated our Torah reading pages to match the new schedule.
It's obviously up to the rabbi of your congregation to decide, but in my (also layperson's) opinion, it seems perfectly acceptable for a congregation to continue to use the original triennial Torah readings that the CJLS first published in 1998 and Hebcal.com republished until December 2021.
https://www.hebcal.com/home/3824/triennial-torah-reading-revision
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