Formatting Hebrew dates

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Published Monday, September 13, 2004 9:29 AM by RoyOsherove
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Monday, September 13, 2004 8:24 AM by Michael Dorfman

# re: Formatting Hebrew dates

It's a small thing, but it might be a good idea to spell "Jewish" consistently throughout.
Monday, September 13, 2004 8:31 AM by meshel@interwise.com

# Re: Formatting Hebrew dates

Hebrew Calendar is a nice object finally provided from a major vendor to support the Jewish calendar (actually hebrew calendar is a much better name)...

Just notice it will expire in year 2240 (Nobody heard of W2K ???) because it only supports a limited amount of years (does microsoft think nobody will use computers by then :-) )

The problem is much bigger when working in systems that do not support the .NET framework, or if you need information which is more than just the date - there is more information in the Hebrew Calendar, such as special weeks, holidays etc...

If you need that, some people have done some private work and support most of what is needed. look at http://www.kaluach.com , helped me when I really needed some help.
Monday, September 13, 2004 8:39 AM by meshel@interwise.com

# Re: Formatting Hebrew dates

Just to mention that according to MS documentation (the article you point to) the HebrewCalendar object (which is a much better name than Jewish), is only valid to year 2240. I guess Microsoft thinks the end of the world (or maybe something else) will be here before.

On the other hand I wanted to mention a component that has been doing the same job for years, and a lot more. You can read about it here:
http://www.kaluach.com
Monday, September 13, 2004 8:41 AM by Moshe Eshel

# Limited Hebrew Date

I am angry because my RSS reader, that is suppose to support comments, did not work, and a long comment was just deleted...

Here is the essence of the original.
Just to mention that according to MS documentation (the article you point to) the HebrewCalendar object (which is a much better name than Jewish), is only valid to year 2240. I guess Microsoft thinks the end of the world (or maybe something else) will be here before.

On the other hand I wanted to mention a component that has been doing the same job for years, and a lot more. You can read about it here:
http://www.kaluach.com