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From: greg@sdcsvax.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Algorithm for Calendar Date of Jewish Holidays?
Message-ID: <139@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 03:54:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 03:54:18 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:33:44 EDT
Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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Y'shana Tova.  (Did I spell that right?)

I have been working on a program that keeps track of fixed, regular
events and allows you to display them.  For those of you who have
used it, it is a C version of the PDP-10 "LESCAL" program.  It uses
a file of dates that you consider interesting, and has various ways of
specifying dates so that "second tuesday" and the like can be given.
It also has a number of "special-algorithm" dates for calculating
things like President's day, bi-monthly paydays, and Easter.  It
does NOT have algorithms to calculate Jewish holidays like Rosh
Hashanah, Yom Kippur, or Hanukkah.  I would like to amend this.
Can somebody take pity on a poor Gentile and tell me if there is
an algorithm that, given the year, will calculate the date of any
of the holidays?  If so, can someone send me the algorithm(s) or a
pointer to it/them?

I doubt that this topic is of great interest to the rest of this
newsgroup, and I don't read it regularly anyway (lack of time, not
lack of interest), so please reply via MAIL.  As a last resort if
you can't reach me by mail, post it to this newsgroup with "Calendar"
in the subject line; through the magic of "rn" I will monitor this
group for any such message.  Many thanks.
-- 
-- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines       Greg@sdcsvax.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA