taarich.man

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.TH TAARICH 1 "$Date: 2003-08-28 16:20:37+03 $" "$Revision: 1.8 $"
.SH NAME
taarich \- display the Hebrew date.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B taarich
.B [\-h]
.BI [ day
.I month
.IB year ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
With no arguments,
.I taarich
print today's Hebrew date. If the local time is 6
.SM PM
or later, tomorrow date is printed.
Optionally,
.I taarich
accepts 3 numeric arguments, which constitute a Gregorian date, in the 
form
.IR day / month / year .
Dates before 15/10/1582 are considered Julian. The year
.I Y
.SM BCE
is referred to as 
.IR \-Y+1 .
If the
.B \-h
option is selected, the printing is in Hebrew, using the UTF-8 encoding.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
luach (1)
.P
Har'El, Z.,
.IR "Gauss Formula for the Julian Date of Passover" .
.SH BUGS
.I taarich
does not know about the variable transition time from the Julian calendar
to Gregorian. For instance, the Julian calendar was still in use in Britain
and America in the early 18th century, and in Russia as late as the early 20th
century.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.I taarich
is available by anonymous ftp from 
.I gauss.technion.ac.il
(132.68.115.2).

.SH AUTHOR
Dr. Zvi Har'El,
.br
Department of Mathematics,
.br
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
.br
Haifa 32000, Israel.
.br
E-mail: rl@math.technion.ac.il