Triennial spreadsheet
I am not able to import the triennial Torah spreadsheet to Microsoft Outlook. Can anyone offer some suggestions.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. We're sorry to hear that you're having some difficulty with the triennial leyning spreadsheet
We recommend that you download Comma Separated Value (CSV) file from Hebcal and import into Microsoft Excel or some other spreadsheet program. We don't recommend importing these CSV files into Outlook.
hebrew date begins in evening
If the yorzeit is on כ״ה סיון, hebcal says it is June 17 (this year). The question is: since hebrew dates start at sunset, not midnight, then is the date June 17 the day on which the hebrew date starts, or ends?
This is important to people who need to observe the yorzeit exactly on the date.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal and thanks for your patience!
As you have noticed, calendars exported from Hebcal to Apple or Google Calendar or other services that support iCalendar subscription feeds are typically “perpetual”. That is, they contain events for the current year (Gregorian or Hebrew) plus some number of years into the future. Our calendars typically have 5 years of events (current year plus 4 years into the future).
Subscription feeds are the recommended approach because they are easier to manage (with different alarm options, etc) and because Jewish calendar events can be displayed in a different color.
If you'd like to capture historical holidays from Hebcal and merge them into your personal calendar, this can indeed be done with a little bit of additional export/import effort.
You can visit our https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal page and enter a past year (for example 2015) in the form and then click on the Create Calendar button.
On the calendar results page, click the Download button and note the "Alternate option" text at the very bottom of the Download dialog box.
Alternate option: Download hebcal_2015.ics and then follow our Google Calendar import instructions.
If you click on this link, it will download a file (not a subscription feed) with exactly one year of events, which you can then import into your preferred calendar application.
Indicate on Holiday page if year is a Leap Year (or put * near Purim date)
just like I asked above
Torah sequencing
Reform Judaism celebrates Shavuot as 1 day. Therefore this Shabbat is Naso. That gets it out of sync with everyone else. When do we all catch up with each other?
Other holidays
Would love to see some other holidays reflected, such as:
- Rosh HaShannah LeBehemah (1 Elul)
- Seder al-Tahwid (1 Nisan)
- Mimouna (21 Nisan)
- The three Isru Hag days
- Saharane (although I recognize this might be trickier)
Just think it would be fun and provide a more complete picture to the Hebrew Calendar.
Thank you for your consideration.
When does "today" switch for Shabbat Times API?
If you don't specify a date when calling the Shabbat Times API, it defaults to "today". When does that switch to the next day? Is it at midnight in the time zone of the requested location, or midnight in some fixed time zone, or some other time? Thanks!
Outlook 2016
In the past, when I have imported the Hebrew calendar into Outlook, it went to my regular Outlook Calendar which syncs to my phone and tablet. However, when I went to do so with the 2020 calendar, now using Outlook 2016, it created a new calendar rather than putting it iinto my regular Outlook calendar. Anybody know how to address this? I don't want to keep referring to 2 different calendars.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
Please follow our Microsoft Outlook Jewish holidays download for Office 365 instructions to add a Hebcal Jewish holiday calendar 5-year feed to newer versions of Microsoft Outlook. This technique uses Outlook’s “Internet Calendar Subscription” feature which keeps a separate calendar from your primary calendar. The calendar appears as an “overlay” and can be managed separately from your main calendar.
This method is preferred for modern versions of Outlook, e.g. Office 365, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013, etc. We still support the legacy CSV Jewish holiday download option used by Outlook 2007 and earlier versions.
Our apologies for the long delay in answering this question.
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