Represents the Hebrew calendar.
See Also: HebrewCalendar Members
Syntax
Remarks
The Hebrew calendar recognizes two eras: B.C.E. (before the common era) and A.M. (Latin "Anno Mundi", which means "the year of the world"). This implementation of the System.Globalization.HebrewCalendar class recognizes only the current era (A.M.) and the Hebrew years 5343 to 5999 (1583 to 2239 in the Gregorian calendar).
For information about using the System.Globalization.HebrewCalendar class and the other calendar classes in the .NET Framework, see Working with Calendars.
In every 19-year cycle that ends with a year that is evenly divisible by 19, the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th years are leap years. A common year can have from 353 to 355 days, depending on the placement of Jewish holidays. A leap year can have from 383 to 385 days.
The Hebrew calendar has 12 months during common years and 13 months during leap years:
| 1 |
1 |
תשרי (Tishrei) |
30 |
30 |
| 2 |
2 |
חשון (Cheshvan) |
29/30 |
29/30 |
| 3 |
3 |
כסלו (Kislev) |
29/30 |
29/30 |
| 4 |
4 |
טבת (Tevet) |
29 |
29 |
| 5 |
5 |
שבט (Shevat) |
30 |
30 |
| 6 |
- |
אדר (Adar) |
29 |
- |
| - |
6 |
אדר א (Adar Alef) |
- |
30 |
| - |
7 |
אדר ב (Adar Beit) |
- |
29 |
| 7 |
8 |
ניסן (Nissan) |
30 |
30 |
| 8 |
9 |
אייר (Iyar) |
29 |
29 |
| 9 |
10 |
סיון (Sivan) |
30 |
30 |
| 10 |
11 |
תמוז (Tamuz) |
29 |
29 |
| 11 |
12 |
אב (Av) |
30 |
30 |
| 12 |
13 |
אלול (Elul) |
29 |
29 |
The days in Cheshvan and Kislev vary depending on the placement of Jewish holidays. During leap years, Adar is replaced by Adar Alef with 30 days and Adar Beit with 29 days. Adar Alef is considered the leap month. The last day of Adar Alef and all the days in Adar Beit are considered leap days; that is, the HebrewCalendar.IsLeapDay(int, int, int, int) method returns true for these days.
The date January 1, 2001 A.D. in the Gregorian calendar is equivalent to the sixth day of Tevet in the year 5761 A.M. in the Hebrew calendar.
Each System.Globalization.CultureInfo supports a set of calendars. The CultureInfo.Calendar property returns the default calendar for the culture, and the CultureInfo.OptionalCalendars property returns an array containing all the calendars supported by the culture. To change the calendar used by a System.Globalization.CultureInfo, the application should set the DateTimeFormatInfo.Calendar property of CultureInfo.DateTimeFormat to a new System.Globalization.Calendar.
Requirements
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0