Posted by KosherJava on November 6, 2007 - כ"ה חשון תשס"ח | Tagged as: Zmanim, Software Dev, Site News
The Zmanim Calendar Generator has been back up for about 2 weeks, but due to a downgrade in the Java version used, the DST issue that was as mentioned as fixed in a previous post returned. This has now been fixed using the Timezone Updater Tool. Please let me know if you run into any […]
Posted by KosherJava on April 19, 2007 - ב' אייר תשס"ז | Tagged as: Zmanim, Software Dev
A user contacted me with the following note (some details removed).
Could you please explain to me why there seems to be nearly a three minute discrepancy between the zemanim for XXXXX, NJ at 20 meters (exact location) and those listed for 20 meters on the MyZmanim.com site. Your site calculates 4/20 at 6:08:20 and […]
Posted by KosherJava on February 8, 2007 - כ"א שבט תשס"ז | Tagged as: Zmanim, Software Dev, Site News
The Java version on the server was just updated to JDK 5.0 Update 11 and now supports the US 2007 DST Changes mentioned in the previous post. This means that Excel zmanim calendars generated by this site will have the proper daylight savings time for zmanim.
Posted by KosherJava on January 29, 2007 - י"א שבט תשס"ז | Tagged as: Software Dev, Site News
As you may know, the U.S. is changing the Daylight Saving Time rules this year due to the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The server currently hosting this site does not yet have the Java patch for this. This means that from the second Sunday in March (the 11th) until the the last Sunday in […]
Posted by KosherJava on November 5, 2006 - ט"ו חשון תשס"ז | Tagged as: Software Dev, Site News, WordPress
The Hebrew date Plugin has not been in active development for a while, and I am pleased to announce that it now has a new home at mikeage.net. Mike added a config page as well as a few new options. The plugin can be downloaded from Mike’s Site. In addition to Mike’s work, Jacob […]
Posted by KosherJava on May 28, 2006 - ב' סיון תשס"ו | Tagged as: Zmanim, Software Dev
The first phase of change to allow easier porting to other languages took place with the change in the API from using inheritance of the Java Calendar classes, to one that uses composition. This will make porting it to other languages easier. Included in the update are a number of new zmanim, mostly the addition […]
Posted by KosherJava on May 21, 2006 - כ"ד אייר תשס"ו | Tagged as: Zmanim, Software Dev, Site News
I just upgraded the site to WordPress 2.0.2, upgraded a few plugins and upgraded the Zmanim Calendar Generator to use v2 of the Google Maps API. I hope to have an update available for the Zmanim API that will allow easier porting to different languages. This will necessitate changing the API from using inheritance of […]
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Posted by KosherJava on January 26, 2006 - כ"ז טבת תשס"ו | Tagged as: Zmanim, Software Dev
The Zmanim Calendar Generator now has a simple way to look up longitude and latitude information using the Google Maps API. To use this feature, click on the Google Maps icon to display the map (location centered on Bais Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood), find the location that you want to generate zmanim for, and click […]
Posted by KosherJava on September 6, 2005 - ג' אלול תשס"ה | Tagged as: Zmanim, Software Dev, Site News
The Zmanim API currently has 2 sample classes in the output package. One outputs zmanim as an Excel spreadsheet and is currently used in the Zmanim Calendar Generator, the other that is not fully maintained outputs zmanim in a PDF format. I just started work on the third output class. This will generate an RSS […]
Posted by KosherJava on August 15, 2005 - י' אב תשס"ה | Tagged as: Software Dev, WordPress
As pointed out in a comment on the Wordpress Hebrew Date Plugin page, there was a PHP function isJewishLeapYear missing from the plugin that caused issues when the month was Adar. I added this to the file and relesed it as version 0.9. I do not have any posts in Adar, so I can’t really […]