Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Observance, Marriage, Women in Judaism (4/12) Previous Document: Question 5.2: What are the dates of the upcoming Jewish holidays? Next Document: Question 5.4: Why do some people take off one day, and others two? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Answer: Chabad-Lubavitch and other organizations publish calendars which include sunset times for various cities. Jewish funeral homes often distribute Jewish calendars to local synagogues around Rosh Hashana. Jewish bookstores and gift shops sell them as well. In terms of software to generate Hebrew calendars, there are a number of resources available: * Unix: + Gnu Emacs. User's of gnu emacs will discover that there is a Jewish calendar built into Gnu Emacs. You invoke the calendar via M-x calendar. Once in the calendar, a number of different commands are available. In this context, it is worth noting that the list of holidays obtained from M-x holidays includes Jewish holidays, the key S can be used to obtain sunrise/sunset times for the selected date (you need to set latitude and longitude first; the relevant variables are calendar-latitute, calendar-longitude, and calendar-location-name. To display the hebrew date for a given day, use the sequence p h (calendar-print-hebrew-date), and to move to a date on the hebrew calendar, use g h (calendar-goto-hebrew-date). + [5]Remind. This a sophisticated multi-lingual calendar and alarm system for UNIX. It produces web-based and PostScript calendars, and includes a powerful scripting language and friendly graphical front-end. It was developed by [6]David Skoll. It is available at [7]http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind.html. + [8]Hebcal. This is a Perpetual jewish calendar program by [9]Danny Sadinoff. * Windows: + HEBREW CALENDAR FOR WINDOWS. Provides full-month calendars for Jewish/Hebrew date conversion. Holidays displayed with information available. Sunset/Sunrise, Shabbat times and zmanim. Anniversaries may be stored in personal database. Customized calendar printouts. Torah and Haftarah readings. Halakhic times of day (zmanim). Covers 1600-2200 (5360-5960). Clipboard, Notepad, and Cardfile support. Extensive city database. Lots more features. Available from the [10]Home Page of the Calendar Maven (<http://www.calendar-maven.com>) + Kaluach. This program displays a full month (either Hebrew or civil) on the screen with all Jewish holidays, fast days (ta'aniot), Shabbat parshiot, counting of the omer (sfirat haomer), birchat hachama, and more. It provides daily halachic times (zmanim): alot hashachar, earliest time for tallit and tefillin, netz hachama (sunrise), latest times for shema and tefillah, chatzot hayom, mincha gedolah and ketanah, shkiat hachama (sunset), tzeit hakochavim. It also provides Shabbat times: hadlakat nerot (candle lighting) and tzeit shabbat (the end of Shabbat); Halachic times calculated according to selected shitot and location; and a choice of Hebrew or English language display (Hebrew support even under standard English Windows-- the Hebrew date is displayed in the Windows 95 status line when the window is minimized. Users can add personal data such as birthdays, anniversaries, and yahrzeits. Additional information available at [11]http://members.tripod.com/~kaluach. * The Web: + Steven Weintraub's [12]JEWISH CALENDAR CALCULATION. This page gives a lot of information on the hebrew calendar, including code in various forms, a CGI interface, and a JAVA calendar + [13]HaVeinu L'Shalom. This organization provides an online perpetual calendar in day or month at a time, as well as Kaballah/Jewish Astrology Calendar. + There is a JavaScript Jewish calendar at [14]http://sites.netscape.net/cgiwpg/calendar.htm User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Observance, Marriage, Women in Judaism (4/12) Previous Document: Question 5.2: What are the dates of the upcoming Jewish holidays? Next Document: Question 5.4: Why do some people take off one day, and others two? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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