1TAARICH(1)                  General Commands Manual                 TAARICH(1)
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NAME

6       taarich - display the Hebrew date.
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SYNOPSIS

9       taarich [-h] [day month year]
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DESCRIPTION

12       With no arguments, taarich print today's Hebrew date. If the local time
13       is 6 PM or  later,  tomorrow  date  is  printed.   Optionally,  taarich
14       accepts  3 numeric arguments, which constitute a Gregorian date, in the
15       form day/month/year.  Dates before 15/10/1582  are  considered  Julian.
16       The  year  Y BCE is referred to as -Y+1.  If the -h option is selected,
17       the printing is in Hebrew, using the UTF-8 encoding.
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SEE ALSO

20       luach (1)
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22       Har'El, Z., Gauss Formula for the Julian Date of Passover.
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BUGS

25       taarich does not know about  the  variable  transition  time  from  the
26       Julian  calendar  to  Gregorian.  For instance, the Julian calendar was
27       still in use in Britain and America in the early 18th century,  and  in
28       Russia as late as the early 20th century.
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AVAILABILITY

31       taarich   is  available  by  anonymous  ftp  from  gauss.technion.ac.il
32       (132.68.115.2).
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AUTHOR

36       Dr. Zvi Har'El,
37       Department of Mathematics,
38       Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
39       Haifa 32000, Israel.
40       E-mail: rl@math.technion.ac.il
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