Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!greg 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 Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.139 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 Lines: 24 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