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Thanks for the bug report! We fixed the problem.

Thanks for your message. Sorry for the inconvenience!


To fix the problem, please edit the Hebcal candle-lighting times RSS feed to add the text &pubDate=0 to the end of the URL. For example, if the URL you were using looks like this:


http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=r&geonameid=281184&i=on&m=50


Change it to this:


http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=r&geonameid=281184&i=on&m=50&pubDate=0

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. Sorry to hear about your duplicate event problem. Try these instructions to remove from Google Calendar and then resync your Android phone.


http://www.hebcal.com/home/180/gcal-delete-jewish-calendar


We have several other articles on how to remove Hebcal from various other devices (for example iPhone) here:


https://www.hebcal.com/home/category/import/remove

Yes, our Shabbat API returns some limited information about holidays. If you look at the documentation, you'll see an example where one of the items has a category of holiday.

We recently added support for "perpetual" calendar feeds to Hebcal.com. Now, when you use our Add to Google Calendar feature, you will get a perpetual 2-to-5 year feed that always is based on the current Gregorian or Hebrew year.


The variable length of the number of years depends on how many events we can fit into the feed. Most calendars can hold a full 5 years of events. If, however, you select an option like "Show Hebrew date every day of the year" or "Daf Yomi", these will generates 365 events per year, so we can only do a 2-year feed...


If you wish to download events many many years in the future, you can use our Google calendar alternate download option to download and then upload .ics files. If you choose to go this path, pease note carefully to use your new, separate calendar in steps 13-14 so you don’t inadvertently merge Hebcal events with your own events

We recently added support for "perpetual" calendar feeds to Hebcal.com. Now, when you use our Add to Google Calendar feature, you will get a perpetual 2-to-5 year feed that always is based on the current Gregorian or Hebrew year.


The variable length of the number of years depends on how many events we can fit into the feed. Most calendars can hold a full 5 years of events. If, however, you select an option like "Show Hebrew date every day of the year" or "Daf Yomi", these will generates 365 events per year, so we can only do a 2-year feed...


If you wish to download events many many years in the future, you can use our Google calendar alternate download option to download and then upload .ics files. If you choose to go this path, pease note carefully to use your new, separate calendar in steps 13-14 so you don’t inadvertently merge Hebcal events with your own events.

Hi, sorry to hear that you're having trouble with default notifications on the iPhone calendar. Our calendar feeds do not specify any alarms.


We'd recommend going to Settings, then Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then scroll down to the Calendars section and choose Default Alert Times:




Then be sure to check None for All-Day Events




The XML version now includes the parashat haShavua.


https://www.hebcal.com/converter/?cfg=xml&gd=28&gm=12&gy=2015&g2h=1


<hebcal>
 <gregorian year="2015" month="12" day="28"/>
 <hebrew year="5776" month="Tevet" day="16" str="ט״ז בְּטֵבֵת תשע״ו"/>
 <events>
  <event name="Parashat Shemot" href="http://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/shemot"/>
 </events>
</hebcal>

The Hebrew Date Converter REST API already supports this.


https://www.hebcal.com/home/219/hebrew-date-converter-rest-api


For example, if you use this URL


http://www.hebcal.com/converter/?cfg=json&hy=5749&hm=Kislev&hd=25&h2g=1


You will get this response:


{
"gy": 1988,"gm": 12,"gd": 4,"hy": 5749,"hm": "Kislev","hd": 25,"hebrew": "כ״ה בְּכִסְלֵו תשמ״ט","events": ["Parashat Miketz","Chanukah: 2 Candles"]}


Notice that the Parashat haShavuah is contained in the events array.