Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp internal release 1.2; site hplabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!iles From: iles@hplabs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Jewish to Gregorian Message-ID: <7300003@hplabs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 19:43:00 EST Article-I.D.: hplabs.7300003 Posted: Tue Jan 8 19:43:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 22:40:56 EST Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #N:hplabs:7300003:000:1005 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."