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Fixed

No Havdalah event on 12/28/2019

Daniel Segall 5 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 2

Answer

Answer
Fixed

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

We've made changes to how our API works and Chanukah candle-lighting times will no longer suppress regular Shabbat/Havdalah times. Here's an example to illustrate how the API now behaves (with 2 events on Friday night and 2 events on Saturday night).

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal/?v=1&cfg=json&maj=on&min=off&mod=off&nx=off&year=2019&month=12&ss=off&mf=off&c=on&geo=zip&zip=11581&m=47&s=off&b=18&leyning=off

    {
      "title": "Candle lighting: 4:16pm",
      "date": "2019-12-27T16:16:00-05:00",
      "category": "candles",
      "title_orig": "Candle lighting",
      "hebrew": "הדלקת נרות"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chanukah: 7 Candles",
      "date": "2019-12-28T17:22:00-05:00",
      "category": "holiday",
      "subcat": "major",
      "hebrew": "חנוכה: ז׳ נרות",
      "link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2019?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",
      "memo": "Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication. Also known as the Festival of Lights"
    },
    {
      "title": "Havdalah (47 min): 5:22pm",
      "date": "2019-12-28T17:22:00-05:00",
      "category": "havdalah",
      "title_orig": "Havdalah",
      "hebrew": "הבדלה (47 דקות)"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chanukah: 8 Candles",
      "date": "2019-12-29T17:07:00-05:00",
      "category": "holiday",
      "subcat": "major",
      "hebrew": "חנוכה: ח׳ נרות",
      "link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2019?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",
      "memo": "Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication. Also known as the Festival of Lights"
    }
Answer
Fixed

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

We've made changes to how our API works and Chanukah candle-lighting times will no longer suppress regular Shabbat/Havdalah times. Here's an example to illustrate how the API now behaves (with 2 events on Friday night and 2 events on Saturday night).

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal/?v=1&cfg=json&maj=on&min=off&mod=off&nx=off&year=2019&month=12&ss=off&mf=off&c=on&geo=zip&zip=11581&m=47&s=off&b=18&leyning=off

    {
      "title": "Candle lighting: 4:16pm",
      "date": "2019-12-27T16:16:00-05:00",
      "category": "candles",
      "title_orig": "Candle lighting",
      "hebrew": "הדלקת נרות"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chanukah: 7 Candles",
      "date": "2019-12-28T17:22:00-05:00",
      "category": "holiday",
      "subcat": "major",
      "hebrew": "חנוכה: ז׳ נרות",
      "link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2019?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",
      "memo": "Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication. Also known as the Festival of Lights"
    },
    {
      "title": "Havdalah (47 min): 5:22pm",
      "date": "2019-12-28T17:22:00-05:00",
      "category": "havdalah",
      "title_orig": "Havdalah",
      "hebrew": "הבדלה (47 דקות)"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chanukah: 8 Candles",
      "date": "2019-12-29T17:07:00-05:00",
      "category": "holiday",
      "subcat": "major",
      "hebrew": "חנוכה: ח׳ נרות",
      "link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2019?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",
      "memo": "Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication. Also known as the Festival of Lights"
    }

Correct! 12/28 shows only one category, for chanukah candles

{
"title": "Chanukah: 7 Candles: 5:35pm",
"memo": "The Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the Festival of Lights",
"hebrew": "חנוכה: ז׳ נרות",
"link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah",
"subcat": "major",
"category": "holiday",
"date": "2019-12-28T17:35:00-05:00"
}