Archive for January 12, 2010 - כ"ו טבת תש"ע

Zmanim API 1.2 Released

Posted by KosherJava on January 24, 2010 - ט' שבט תש"ע | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim API 1.2 was released today. The only change in this release is the removal of elevation as a factor in the calculation of all zmanim besides sunrise and sunset. Updated JavaDocs now reflect these changes. Please see the Elevation Now Only Impacts Sunrise and Sunset Calculations in the Zmanim API post for additional [...]

Elevation Now Only Impacts Sunrise and Sunset Calculations in the Zmanim API

Posted by KosherJava on January 24, 2010 - ט' שבט תש"ע | Filed under: Software Dev, Zmanim

I have received a few emails over the past year or so about the use of elevation as part of the calculation of various zmanim in the API. All releases of the zmanim API up to the current 1.1 release, use elevation to affect the calculation of all sunrise/sunset based zmanim. While my footnote on [...]