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‍‍20 November 2009 - 3 Kislev 5770

Command line kaluach utilities

10 Comments | Posted by Moishe Beshkin in Reviews

At this time, I found two different versions of Linux command line utilities to get Jewish date and chalahic time.
Hebcal.
Pretty simple to use tool. Supports a variety of possibilities to get Jewish date and time.

$ hebcal -L 59,22 -l 24,48 -TSca
3rd of Kislev, 5770
Parshas Toldos
Candle lighting:  3:51

Notable features:
- Omer count support
- Reads a table of yahrtzeit dates from file.
The only minus, to my mind, is that help output is too long for UNIX-way application.
Installation on Ubuntu 9.10:

$ sudo apt-get install hebcal

LibHdate.
This library and hdate application is more popular, then hebcal. But actually it has less features.

$ hdate -l 59,22 -L 24,48 -z 2 -c
Friday, 20 November 2009, 3 Kislev 5770
(18:45)

Actually Shabbat start time is incorrect with hdate.
Hdate has similar to hebcal set of features, but lacks listed above notable ones.
Big plus is that this library is widely used in Linux Jewish software development. About Gnome hdate-applet I have written already.
Installation on Ubuntu 9.10:

$ sudo apt-get install libhdate1

Popularity: 15% [?]

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10 Comments

  • bahaltener | ‍‍Nov 20, 2009 - 3 Kislev 5770 at 4:47 am

    Useful program. It looks like it was started to be ported to OpenSolaris but didn’t make it into contrib repository:

    http://pkg.opensolaris.org/pending/manifest/0/hebcal@3.5,5.11-0.101:20081125T080452Z

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    • bahaltener | ‍‍Nov 20, 2009 - 3 Kislev 5770 at 4:48 am

      I’ll try to push it to the Juicer, so it will land into the contrib: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib

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      • Moishe Beshkin | ‍‍Nov 22, 2009 - 5 Kislev 5770 at 2:05 am

        as soon, as contribution will be approved, inform me. And you can write a short piece of post here about OpenSolaris port.

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        • bahaltener | ‍‍Dec 2, 2009 - 16 Kislev 5770 at 3:21 pm

          How can I write to your blog about OpenSolaris hebcal port?

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          • Moishe Beshkin | ‍‍Dec 2, 2009 - 16 Kislev 5770 at 3:44 pm

            I created an account for you with a role Author. check e-mail.

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            • bahaltener | ‍‍Dec 2, 2009 - 16 Kislev 5770 at 4:26 pm

              I didn’t get it so far.

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              • bahaltener | ‍‍Dec 2, 2009 - 16 Kislev 5770 at 4:27 pm

                Got it. It dropped into the spam for some reason.

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                • bahaltener | ‍‍Dec 2, 2009 - 16 Kislev 5770 at 6:24 pm

                  How can I use syntax highlighting plugin within the post? There are a whole bunch of them with different syntax. <pre class=''… didn't work as well as [code] etc.

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                  • bahaltener | ‍‍Dec 2, 2009 - 16 Kislev 5770 at 6:25 pm

                    How can I use syntax highlighting plugin within the post?

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                    • hebcal port for OpenSolaris - KosherDev | ‍‍Dec 3, 2009 - 16 Kislev 5770 at 12:21 am

                      [...] Following the post on Hebrew date libraries, I submitted hebcal package to OpenSolaris Source Juicer in order for it to be available in OpenSolaris contrib repository. Currently it was validated and placed into pending repository. After the review process from OpenSolaris community it will be relocated to contrib. [...]

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