Forum for Hebcal.com - Free Jewish holiday calendars, Hebrew date converters and Shabbat times
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months missing from hebcal

mayer 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago 1

2018 is missing January, 2019 is missing January and February, as is

2020, 2021 is again missing January, and 2022 is missing Jan & Feb

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Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

If you uncheck some options such as Rosh Chodesh, there will indeed be Gregorian months where no Jewish holidays occur.

To set your custom calendar options, go to https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal


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Shabbat times are different then chabad.org times

chaim 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago 1

I noticed that the shabbat times are a bit different the those times on chabad.org

why is that? and is there a way to input which minhag you want the times to display via the REST API?

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Link to Yahrzeit page from home page is broken

joelbaron 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago 1
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Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago

Thanks for the note - should be fixed now!

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Asara b'Tevet fast start times are incorrect (in some cases showing up as after the end of the fast)

Josh Greenfield 5 years ago updated 5 years ago 2

When I download or subscribe to the calendar for 2020, I see on January 7th, the fast ends at 5:20 pm (NY time) and the fast starts at 5:52 pm. Similarly, for December 25th, I see Fast begins at 5:50 pm and no fast starting time.  I see this whether I subscribe to an iPhone calendar, or via Google Calendar, or by downloading .ics (you can see this: SUMMARY:Fast begins
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201225T175000).  The .csv download seems to be correct, however.

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Bug: export to *.ics - Fast begins bad time.

Leonid 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago 1

When I export my calendar to a *.ics file all "Fast begins" contain the wrong time. For example 17:11 instead of 5:11
Example calendar link

Example event from file (have time  T164400 but will be T044400):

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20201203T113844Z
CATEGORIES:Holiday
SUMMARY:Fast begins
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20200309T164400
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20200309T164400
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE
UID:hebcal-20200309-66273107d4ac6311a72221c89876d8f8-6693680
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:maale adumim
GEO:31.78232;35.30748
END:VEVENT

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Display blue color

WRubin 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago 1

On my Windows10 computer, HC display in default orange. How can I change to HC default blue? I download CSV and then import to Google calendar.

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Hanukkah candle lighting dates are different when using converter

Silv 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago 1

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Hi, I tried to convert the first day of candle lighting on Hebcal converter. When entering 10 December 2020 ( After Sunset), it says Chanukah: 2 candles. The Hebcal calendar says Chanukah starts 10 December 2020 at sundown which means we light 1 Candle with shamash? It would be very helpful if someone can confirm this. Thank you.

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Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. We agree that the date converter gives confusing results. We have changed it for past and future years to be more clear:

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=10&gm=12&gy=2020&gs=on&g2h=1

When you look at the month view on the calendar results page or via one of our downloads, we still display the number of candles

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?v=1&maj=on&min=on&i=off&year=2020&yt=G&month=12&lg=s&c=off&geo=none&nx=off&mod=off&mf=off&ss=off&set=off

December 2020 

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Chanukah: 1 Candle

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Chanukah: 2 Candles

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Chanukah: 3 Candles

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Chanukah: 4 Candles

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Chanukah: 5 Candles

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Chanukah: 6 Candles

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Chanukah: 7 Candles

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Chanukah: 8 Candles

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Chanukah: 8th Day

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Chanukah API schema changed?

Aron Adler 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago 1

Hi, I have a website (maoztzur.com) that displays the time for candle lighting for Chanukah. 

I use this API request to get the number of candles and the time for candle lighting for a given location: https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal/?v=1&cfg=json&maj=on&min=off&mod=off&nx=off&year=now&month=x&ss=off&mf=off&c=on&geo=pos&m=0&s=off&latitude=51.6093316&longitude=-0.2951551&tzid=Europe/London

However it looks like this is now broken because of an API schema change.


It used to be that the time of candle lighting was included in the `title` field of each item in `items[]` in this format: "Chanukah: 8 Candle: 6:18pm". I had a regex to parse this: ^Chanukah: (\d) Candles?: (\d\d?:\d\dpm)$

However it seems that the format has changed. Now the `title` field only says "Chanukah: 8 Candles". However I can see there is a new `date` field on each `item` in the format of "2020-12-17T16:51:00-00:00".

Can I confirm that this `date` is indeed the candle lighting time for the specified timezone?

Thanks

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Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago

Yes, confirmed. If the `date` field contains a `T` then it includes a time in the timezone specified by the candle-lighting setting.

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Hanukkah Candle times are showing an hour too late except on Friday evenings, Eastern Standard Time

Audrey Glickman 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago 3

Please advise why Hanukkah Candle times are showing an hour too late except on Friday evenings, for Eastern Standard Time.

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Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

According to our sources, Chanukah candles should generally be lit at nightfall, except for erev Shabbat when they must be lit at regular candles lighting time (18 minutes before sunset). 

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Microsoft Calender Version 16005.13228.41011.0 Windows 10 app

WRubin 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago 1

How can I download hebcal to Windows 10 app Calendar version16005.13228.41011. I this possible to do?

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Michael J. Radwin 5 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

Windows 10 calendar app supports iCalendar format. Please use these instructions and let us know if they work for you?

https://www.hebcal.com/home/210/icalendar-ics-jewish-holidays