Question about dates prior to 1752 - specifically January1/Tevet 3/Hanukkah 8th day coincidence.
Hello, I was interested in the rare occurrences when Hanukkah 8th day falls on Tevet 3 and I found that this always seems to coincides with January 1 (falling on a Sunday, January 1) on the Gregorian calendar. I found that this does occur, but that it seems very rare. The first occurrence of this that I was aware of was in 2017, Prior to that, I only found two other Gregorian dates - 1797 and 1550. I went back as far as Hebcal would allow (the year 2 C.E.) and did not find any more, but then I read that 11 days were added to the Gregorian calendar back in 1572 (which now makes complete sense as far as why no other occurrences happened before that date). However, it does not explain the single occurrence of "Hanukkah 8th day/Tevet 3/January 1" that I found in the Gregorian year 1550. Could this be due to an error in Hebcal algorithm? Or, is there another explanation for this? Please can somebody help with this question....?
Download error Forbidden...
When I try downloading the yahrzeit/anniversary/birthday calendar through the google link and the csv link an error page opens
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You don't have permission to access this resource.
I have put in quite a few (90) birthdays etc.
Jewish Month Structure
Hi,
Is there any way to set that months are displayed according to Jewish calendar and Gregorian is secondary?
Rosh Chodesh does not appear on the google calendar app
Jewish holidays work fine on my Google desktop, but Rosh Chodesh does not appear on my calendar app.
Outlook Calendar Error - one hour earlier!
Hi
I have used HebCal for years. I now live in Israel.
When I subscribe to ICS with latest outlook using Israel as location, it puts my events straddling two days - e.g. a chag will be from 11pm to 11pm the next night and each "date" from 11pm to 11pm next time.
Its very hard to actually work out what is what and renders the calendar useless.
Please help
Hi Neil, thanks for being a long time Hebcal user and reporting this bug many years ago. Although we corresponded privately recently, I'm also answering this question here for others who may be searching for the answer.
We were finally able to reproduce this error on Outlook 365 web. We made two changes to our iCalendar feeds to fix the problem for you:
1. Our .ics feeds so they include X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE which according to some Microsoft documentation might fix the problem.
2. Our VTIMEZONE implementation for Asia/Jerusalem (the timezone that is used throughout Israel) has been modified so it only uses a simpler, current Daylight Saving Time rules (which clocks are advanced by one hour, beginning on the Friday before the last Sunday of March, and ending on the last Sunday of October). This is perfectly accurate for any calendars 2013 and later (when the Israeli government standardized and simplified DST rules).
Shana Tova!
Hebcal and Microsoft Office
When we switched over to microsoft office, Hebcal would no longer work with outlook. Is anyone else having this problem? I have asked our IT support company to look into this and they have not been able to solve it. It used to be so easy and now I am not clear about how to solve this. Even before the switch, we were having a lot of trouble with duplicates and were told by our IT people that it could only be cleared up manually. But now I don't have it at all!
Changing content
Am I allowed to change text from the site to display G'd instead of spelling out the name in English? Example of what I would like to copy and amend:
Yom Yerushalayim / יום ירושלים
Jerusalem Day (Hebrew: יום ירושלים, Yom Yerushalayim) is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in June 1967. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel declared Jerusalem Day a minor religious holiday to thank G'd for victory in the Six-Day War and for answering the 2,000-year-old prayer of "Next Year in Jerusalem".
Yom Yerushalayim begins at sundown on Sat, 01 June 2019.
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References
The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
"Jerusalem Day" in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
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