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Subject: Jewish to Gregorian
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 19:43:00 EST
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Nf-From: hplabs!iles    Jan  8 16:43:00 1985

Converting the Jewish calendar to any other calendar is quite trivial, actually.

Recall that the Jewish calendar is mereley a sequential ordering of months,
identical to the Gregorian calendar, only instead of a leap day added during
a long calendar year, there is a leap month.

Therefore, to calculate any give Jewish holiday in, say, 1995, one only must
know what day of the Jewish calendar it is today, and what year in the leap
cycle.  It is then rather easy to find the total number of days until the
holiday occurs again, and then to plug this number of days into a gregorian
calendar.

If there is sufficient interest, I will write such a mess sometime during the
next semester.  What language would you people like it in, if requested?

The program, if I supplied it, would merely ask for the Jewish date, or 
holiday by common name, and either the Jewish year, or the Gregorian year.
Fair enough?

Daniel Lieman 

"yeah, I'm on Doug's account, but that's okay, cause I do work here 1/2 time."