Exporting and Printing a Year

Kaluach can produce a whole year of zmanim for the current location — as a spreadsheet file, or as a printed table of Shabbatot and holidays.

Choosing the year and the shita

The Print Year button in the toolbar opens a small window. Choose a Hebrew or civil year and its number; it starts at the year shown in the calendar. Choose the zmanim shita: it starts at the location’s own shita and can be changed for this export or printout only (if the location shows every shita, it starts at the region’s GRA shita). Then click Print… or Export CSV….

Export CSV

Export CSV… saves a CSV file that opens in Excel or another spreadsheet, with one row for every day of the year: the civil date, weekday, Hebrew date, Jewish and civil holidays, the parsha and special Shabbatot, and one column for every zman of the chosen shita. Columns that apply only on certain days — candle lighting, Tzeit Shabbat or Tzeit Chag, a fast’s beginning and end, the Erev Pesach chametz times — are filled on those days and empty on others. Times are always in 24-hour form, which spreadsheets handle best; names and headings follow the app’s language, and Hebrew opens correctly in Excel.

Print Year

Print… shows the table first, in landscape: every Shabbat and every day with a holiday or observance — including Erev Chag, Chol HaMoed, Chanukah, Rosh Chodesh, and fasts — with its times. The Begins and Ends columns hold candle lighting — lit the day before, so a Shabbat or Yom Tov line shows the candle lighting of Erev Shabbat or Erev Yom Tov — and the end of Shabbat or Yom Tov; a fast’s beginning and end; and on Erev Pesach, the last times to eat and to burn chametz. When the location also shows Rabbeinu Tam, both ends of Shabbat or Yom Tov appear, separated by a slash. The remaining columns are the day’s regular zmanim. Times follow the app’s 12- or 24-hour setting, and the table runs right to left when the app is in Hebrew.

The Print… button in that window chooses the printer and pages. To save the table as a PDF, choose the printer Microsoft Print to PDF.