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How to add Gregorian dates to Hebcal (or Hebcal to a Gregorian calendar)

David K 6 years ago updated by Patsy J. Moore 6 years ago 2

Hi everyone - I need to create a Gregorian calendar that integrates Hebrew dates (Yahrtzeits and Hebrew birthdays) as well as Gregorian dates (birthdays and anniversaries). Any suggestions?

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Smart Home Integration

shmuelsash 6 years ago updated by Patsy J. Moore 6 years ago 2

There is an official Smartthings SmartApp that uses the hebcal API to automatically change the mode of the hub based on Shabbos and Yom Tov. However, Samsung is changing their APIs around and the SmartApp isn't behaving properly. I spoke to the creator of the SmartApp and he isn't sure what the problem is exactly. I was wondering if someone would be willing to help me set up a similar system using webCoRE.

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I'm trying to download the new year's Hebcal for MacOS...

chesed gevurah 6 years ago updated by anonymous 6 years ago 1

...but when I do, it just replicates the 5779 calendar & does not actually show up for 5780.

Any idea what to do?

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Question about dates prior to 1752 - specifically January1/Tevet 3/Hanukkah 8th day coincidence

mturc23 6 years ago 0

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....?

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Question about dates prior to 1752 - specifically January1/Tevet 3/Hanukkah 8th day coincidence.

mturc23 6 years ago 0

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....?

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Download error Forbidden...

lyrsimon 6 years ago updated by anonymous 6 years ago 1

When I try downloading the yahrzeit/anniversary/birthday calendar through the google link and the csv link an error page opens 

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

I have put in quite a few (90) birthdays etc. 

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Jewish Month Structure

Rabbi M 6 years ago updated by anonymous 6 years ago 1

Hi, 

Is there any way to set that months are displayed according to Jewish calendar and Gregorian is secondary?

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Why does the parsha V’zot haB’rakhah have no dates?

mashiach247 6 years ago updated by anonymous 6 years ago 1
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Rosh Chodesh does not appear on the google calendar app

Seligs 6 years ago updated by anonymous 6 years ago 1

Jewish holidays work fine on my Google desktop, but Rosh Chodesh does not appear on my calendar app.

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Outlook Calendar Error - one hour earlier!

Neil M 6 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago 2

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

Answer
Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago

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!