heb-date

HebrewDate

A small wrapper around libhdate that should make it much easier to use.

API

new HebrewDate(options)

Where options are:

• date: Date - optional - The day to user. Defaults to new Date().
• isDiaspora: Boolean - optional - Should be calculated according to Israel (default) or diaspora.

Instance properties

• year: number - Returns the Hebrew year number, e.g. 5782.
• month: number - Returns the Hebrew month number, zero based (same as native JS Date object).

Month number	Month name (English)	Month name (Hebrew)
0	Tishri	תשרי
1	Heshvan	חשוון
2	Kislev	כסלו
3	Tevet	טבת
4	Shevat	שבט
5	Adar	אדר (בשנה לא מעוברת)
6	Nisan	ניסן
7	Iyar	אייר
8	Sivan	סיוון
9	Tammuz	תמוז
10	Av	אב
11	Elul	אלול
12	Adar I	'אדר א
13	Adar II	'אדר ב

• date: number - Returns the Hebrew numerical value of the day in the month.

• holiday: number | undefined - Returns the holiday in the Hebrew calendar, if any.

• holidayName: string | undefined - Returns the holiday name, in Hebrew, if any.

example:

const HebrewDate = require('hebrew-date')

// With specific date object
const date = new Date('2021-09-21');
const hdate = new HebrewDate({ date });
console.log(`September 21st, 2021 hebrew date is: ${hdate.date}, in month ${hdate.month}, in Year ${hdate.year}, and holiday ${hdate.holiday} - which is ${hdate.holidayName}`)

// Outputs
// September 21st, 2021 hebrew date is: 15, in month 0, in Year 5782, and holiday 5 - which is סוכות