gillpolack @ 2015-09-01T18:20:00
I'm having to reconfigure my next few weeks in a great hurry. I asked someone for dates of the high holy days some months ago, to sort things out with. By error, they gave me next year's. They took it from an app that I also used, which means when I checked things up very carefully, we ended up with the same results. Then I checked with my mother who came up with the same dates a third time, and they were wrong. I had to check the dates again two weeks ago, and got the same set. Every site I consulted and every set of calculations ended up with next year's dates, by mistake. I was wondering how it could be a leap year this year and not next, and it wasn't.
I rescheduled that which needed instant action, only to find that another app takes everything one day out (brings it a day earlier) presumably because it tangled the whole Jewish sunset thing.
I still can't do the first two days of Conflux, for I will have to do work I had scheduled for the week after next over that weekend, and it's too late to arrange to go to Melbourne for family (it's term time and I'm teaching). And Day of Atonement is on my last day of teaching, so I've had to ask if we can rearrange that. Still, it could have been worse.
What's funny is that the calendar I made for my mother as her gift last year is perfectly accurate.
In my whole life, I've never known so many of us to be two full weeks out! I suspect that there's an app and when one plugs in '2015' it doesn't access the secular year 2015, it accesses the Jewish year starting in 2015. This would work, if it included Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as they occur as the start of the year, but for some reason it takes the calendar right up to next year. Why do I think that? All the dates I had wee spot on for 2016... All the printed calendars are fine. All the quick queries through apps and the web were not so fine.
And my silly season starts the weekend after next. My cupboards are ready for an influx of food, thankfully, and I've already sorted presents. Everything else, however, is still to do.
I rescheduled that which needed instant action, only to find that another app takes everything one day out (brings it a day earlier) presumably because it tangled the whole Jewish sunset thing.
I still can't do the first two days of Conflux, for I will have to do work I had scheduled for the week after next over that weekend, and it's too late to arrange to go to Melbourne for family (it's term time and I'm teaching). And Day of Atonement is on my last day of teaching, so I've had to ask if we can rearrange that. Still, it could have been worse.
What's funny is that the calendar I made for my mother as her gift last year is perfectly accurate.
In my whole life, I've never known so many of us to be two full weeks out! I suspect that there's an app and when one plugs in '2015' it doesn't access the secular year 2015, it accesses the Jewish year starting in 2015. This would work, if it included Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as they occur as the start of the year, but for some reason it takes the calendar right up to next year. Why do I think that? All the dates I had wee spot on for 2016... All the printed calendars are fine. All the quick queries through apps and the web were not so fine.
And my silly season starts the weekend after next. My cupboards are ready for an influx of food, thankfully, and I've already sorted presents. Everything else, however, is still to do.
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