[HN Gopher] Jewish Calendar Demystified (2007) ___________________________________________________________________ Jewish Calendar Demystified (2007) Author : nvr219 Score : 62 points Date : 2022-10-07 20:46 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (stevemorse.org) (TXT) w3m dump (stevemorse.org) | LastTrain wrote: | Nothing demystifies a subject like putting it into quasi-biblical | verse. | otterley wrote: | (2007) | dang wrote: | Added above. Thanks! | aaronbrethorst wrote: | (5767 or 5768) | chabad360 wrote: | Hmm, considering that the Jewish New Year ended in the middle | of September that year, it actually is a question. I suppose | it depends on whether that journal was actually published | before or after Rosh Hashanah that year. | verbify wrote: | I was born on the 30th of Cheshvan which as he explains is one of | the days that doesn't show up every year (I guess is the | equivalent of February 29th). I've always wondered how many | birthdays I've had - does anyone know of a list of which years | are chasar/maalei? | | The missing years are also interesting: | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_years_(Jewish_calend... | h4n1 wrote: | The 19-year metonic cycle (of the Jewish and Chinese calendars) | has always struck me as clever but inconvenient - how do you | quickly calculate if we'll have an extra month in x years from | now? The Gregorian calendar's algorithm - every 4 years, except | if divisible by 100, except if also divisible by 400 - is both | clever and elegant. | lupire wrote: | All you have to do is learn astronomy. It's more civilized. | Lunar calendar = more technologically advanced society. | dotancohen wrote: | The relation to the bug in his code at the end was interesting. | It took the story in a direction that I was not expecting. | Honestly, reading through the first 95% of the fine article I was | wondering why this was posted to HN. The end was worth it. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-07 23:00 UTC)