hbcal

Hebrew date calendar conversion

hbcal is a command line utility to convert dates between the Hebrew calendar and the Civil calendar. It can also optionally display other information about the date e.g. the weekly portion of the Torah, the daily page of Talmud.

Pre-requisites

• python version 2.7 or 3.4+ (3.3 might also work, but is not tested)
• pip

Installation

Easy way - use pip

pip install hbcal

From Repository

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/markastern/hbcal

To install, run the installation program:

• python setup.py test (optional)
• [sudo] python setup.py install

Running

For help type: hbcal --help

Example

To convert 1st January 2016 to Hebrew calendar and display also the weekly portion of the Torah and the daily page of Talmud:

$ hbcal --sedrah --input civil --output hebrew daf -- 1 1 2016
יום שישי 20 טבת 5776
גיטין 19
שמות

## Changes in version 0.8.0
Structure reorganized. Makefile replaced with a python setup script.

## Changes in version 0.9.0
Now compatible with python version 3.4+. Python 3.3 might also work, but is not tested).

## Changes in version 0.9.1
Uses the Python 3 argument-less version of super.

## Changes in version 0.9.2
Fixed setup script so that enum34 is installed only for python < 3.4.

## Changes in version 0.10.0
Month can now be specified as a word instead of a number.

## Changes in version 0.10.1
Fixed html output when displaying time of molad.

## Changes in version 0.11.0
Added gematria formatting option.
Date and DateTime objects can now be formatted using the python format
function, with more formatting options (for use as a library) than
are available on the command line. See the class docstrings for more
information.
This will probably be the last release that supports Python 2.7 (and
maybe 3.4 also).

By Mark Stern (markalexstern@gmail.com)