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When I convert 1 Tishri 1 to Gregorian, I get Mon, 7 September 3760 B.C.E.
Whether this is correct or not depends on how you count years.
If you count from Adam then it should be a Friday.
If you count from Creation then 1 Tishri of year 2 should be a Friday but the converter returns Sat, 28 August 3759 B.C.E..
If we look at years:
- year 5783 starts in 2022
- year 3762 starts in year 1 (5783 - 2021)
- year 3761 starts in year -1 (there was no 0)
- year 1 starts in -3761 (-1 - 3760)
We can look at it from the Gregorian side:
- year 2022 has rosh hashana of 5783
- year 1 has rosh hashana of 5783 - 2021 = 3762
- year -1 has rosh hashana of 3762 - 1 = 3761
- to know when was rosh hashana of year 1: -1 - 3760 = -3761
or just run this python:
g = 2022
for h in reversed(range(1, 5784)):
if g in [-1, 0, 1, 2022] or h == 1:
print(f"{g} - {h}")
g = g - 1
if g == 0: g = -1
Therefore I think Hebcal is a bug
The question is which Hebrew year is year 1.
As far as I know, and as also written in Wikipedia here, when we count from the creation of the world (beriat haolam), the world was created on 25 Elul year 1 and the first Rosh Hashana on 1 Tishri was year 2.
There was no 1 Tishri 1.
Is this a bug in Hebcal or you do not count from the creation of the world?
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Michael, I will work on fixing the dates. I'll probably reach out separately to understand how to run the code locally for testing.
But what about the years? 1 Tishri 1 should start in Gregorian -3761