Re: hebrew patch for jewish calendar

> moshe: Your mua appears to be MS Outlook Express; you can avoid these > strange problems with attachments by setting it to send base64 encoded > MIME attachments instead of uuencoded "attachments". thnxs > As for the patch, can you explain in english what it actually does? i just returned the year case: the jewish presentation of date is not by numeric like 1999 but by the word. the word building technique called 'gimatriya' and the formula is: separating the basic 22 charts (called 'otiyot') into 3 groups of 9,9,4. the first group are the 'yeidot' one mean each char represent number from 1-9. the second group called 'asarot' each char represent number from 10-90. the third group called 'meot' each char represent number from 100-400. when we have no enough 'meot' we adding some otiyot (e.g 900 = 400+400+100) since the world exist by the jewish beliefs 5763 years, we need suppot for the 1000-9000 case but have no appropriating otiyot so we just preface char from the yeidot to the year string. in addition there are 'tet-vav' and 'tet-zain' cases that mean the 15,16 case. coz 15 is 10+5 and 16 is 10+6 but those 2 combination are reserved words for god 'nicks', we avoiding use them by replacing them with 9+6 and 9+7 respectively. so the implementation is by diving the year number by 1000,100,10... and matching the wanted char from the alef_bet (all the otiyot) string. the month case: just hebrew description like english 'Aug'. the day case: just like the year but the accepted range here is just moshe --