Tag Archive 'Timezone'

Bearing to Yerushalayim and Zmanim Map 2.0

Posted by KosherJava on 14 Mar 2010 - כ״ח אדר תש״ע | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

The availability of the Bearing to Yerushalayim and Zmanim Map was originally announced on December 30, 2007. At the time there were a number of bugs related to the Google Map API. These bugs were reported to Google and eventually fixed. Since that time, the only change was a minor JavaScript fix for IE. The [...]

Updated Zmanim Jar Released – Please Download the Latest

Posted by KosherJava on 07 Feb 2008 - א׳ אדר א' תשס״ח | Filed under: Software Dev, Zmanim

In December when developing the Zmanim/Bearing to Yerushalayim map (blog post), I noticed a problem with the code used to generate zmanim. The API returns a Java Date object. Usually only the time is of interest, and the date is ignored, but in some cases (when a timezone offset is specified without using the Olson [...]

Zmanim Calendar Generator Back Up (With Proper DST Rules)

Posted by KosherJava on 06 Nov 2007 - כ״ה חשון תשס״ח | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

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 [...]

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