Calculate Jewish Holidays?

Hi Folks,

I've searched the Usenet archives, the Foxpro Wiki, and Google and am
pretty surprised that nobody seems to have posted VFP code to
calculate the dates of major Jewish holidays.

Does anyone have code to find the dates for:

Yom Kippur
Rosh Hashanah
First day of Passover
First day of Chanukah

Thanks very much.

Ken Dibble
Southern Tier Independence Center

Leemi
Mon Apr 19 09:20:48 CDT 2004

Hi Ken:

I looked on Universalthread.com and did not find anything. I then looked
in our Knowledge Base. Again, I found nothing on Jewish holidays.
However, I found this article on calculating working days, which takes into
account other holidays:

259772 Visual FoxPro 6.0 Sample: Calculates the Number of Business Days and
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=259772

Maybe this code can help you get starting creating a solution.

I hope this helps.

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>Hi Folks,

>I've searched the Usenet archives, the Foxpro Wiki, and Google and am
>pretty surprised that nobody seems to have posted VFP code to
>calculate the dates of major Jewish holidays.

>Does anyone have code to find the dates for:

>Yom Kippur
>Rosh Hashanah
>First day of Passover
>First day of Chanukah

>Thanks very much.

>Ken Dibble
>Southern Tier Independence Center

Ken
Tue Apr 20 19:16:37 CDT 2004

>I looked on Universalthread.com and did not find anything. I then looked
>in our Knowledge Base. Again, I found nothing on Jewish holidays.
>However, I found this article on calculating working days, which takes into
>account other holidays:
>
>259772 Visual FoxPro 6.0 Sample: Calculates the Number of Business Days and
>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=259772
>
>Maybe this code can help you get starting creating a solution.
>
>I hope this helps.

Thanks Lee,

Unfortunately, this won't do it. The Jewish holidays are like Easter
in that they are based on a lunar calendar whose mathematics I don't
understand. I've already copped Steven Blake's calculation for Easter
from the Wiki, but I can't find similar algorithms for Jewish
holidays.

Thanks anyway.

Ken Dibble

Andrew
Wed Apr 21 10:32:24 CDT 2004

Ken Dibble wrote:
> Unfortunately, this won't do it. The Jewish holidays are like Easter
> in that they are based on a lunar calendar whose mathematics I don't
> understand. I've already copped Steven Blake's calculation for Easter
> from the Wiki, but I can't find similar algorithms for Jewish
> holidays.

I had a quick trawl around but couldn't find anything in VFP [sorry to get
your hopes up for a moment with this response..]

Most people's Easter date code is derived from code by a guy who works on
the website [I think] of the Ely diocese. Unfortunately this is an Anglican
church and therefore has nothing to do with Jewish holidays but I did find
this link which may help you.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1991Apr4.052012.5641
%40sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM&rnum=3

--
HTH
Andrew Howell

Ken
Fri Apr 23 19:05:32 CDT 2004

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:32:24 +0100, "Andrew Howell" <ajh@work> wrote:

>Ken Dibble wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this won't do it. The Jewish holidays are like Easter
>> in that they are based on a lunar calendar whose mathematics I don't
>> understand. I've already copped Steven Blake's calculation for Easter
>> from the Wiki, but I can't find similar algorithms for Jewish
>> holidays.
>
>I had a quick trawl around but couldn't find anything in VFP [sorry to get
>your hopes up for a moment with this response..]
>
>Most people's Easter date code is derived from code by a guy who works on
>the website [I think] of the Ely diocese. Unfortunately this is an Anglican
>church and therefore has nothing to do with Jewish holidays but I did find
>this link which may help you.
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1991Apr4.052012.5641
>%40sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM&rnum=3

Hey! Thanks very much! I might even be able to figure out how to
convert this!

Ken

Ken
Sat Apr 24 11:56:15 CDT 2004

I've made some progress in finding answers to this question.

See my separate post, "Jewish Holidays Solutions Found".

Thanks for everyone's help!

Ken Dibble