On Tue, May 21, 2002, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) wrote about "Re: GNU/Linux only, 
!linux ?":
> >> BTW nadav, how do you put the hebrew date on your message?
> >>   and I can't send you private mail.
> 
> With gnus - everything is built-in:
> 
> (setq message-required-news-headers
>       (append message-required-news-headers
>             '((X-Hebrew-date . calendar-hebrew-date-string))))

In your message:

Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:40:50 +0200
X-Hebrew-date: 10 Sivan 5762

Too bad nobody taught Emacs that while the Gregorian date changes at midnight,
the Hebrew date traditionally changes at sundown. You actually wrote your
message in Sivan 11 (usually refered to "Or Le'Yom Yod-Alef Sivan"), not 10.

If I remember correctly (but I didn't check, so I might be wrong) neither
"hdate" nor "taarich" calculate the correct sundown time (that would also
depend on your latitude which they dont know) and they assume some fixed
hour (6pm?) for this transition, which makes sense inside Israel (but not
in very northern cities).


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