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<pre><h1>Updates</h1>

<h3>29 March 2024</h3>
>Changed the Saudi Solar Hijri calendar to change days at midnight
>Fixed an issue displaying holidays on some days in the far future
>Fixed an issue with Zayin Adar being displayed twice during the month of Adar I
>Adjusted the way single digit Hebrew numerals are shown and changed the "thousands place" indicator

<h3>28 March 2024</h3>
>Added the Assyrian calendar!
>Added the Saudi Solar Hijri calendar!
>Assyrian New Year is now shown as 1 Nīsān not 1 April
>Added the Fast of Nineveh
>Added a few Orthodox/Coptic fasts
>Fixed an issue with the display of Coptic intercalary months
>Added seven Zoroastrian holidays (added to all three calendars)

<h3>27 March 2024</h3>
>Fixed the display of some Zoroastrian holidays
>Added the Zoroastrian holidays of Nouroz and Pateti
>Fixed an issue with the Bahá'í date in Arabic
>The day of the week now has a Wikipedia article attached
>The name search now does not care about letter casing
>Added Zoroastrian name-day feasts

<h3>20 March 2024</h3>
>Added the Yazidi prayer direction

<h3>18 March 2024</h3>
>Fixed issue with decimal time zones
>Zayin Adar is now on both Adar I and Adar II in leap years

<h3>17 March 2024</h3>
>Zayin Adar is moved to Adar I in leap years instead of Adar II
>Started to fix some Belarusian names (by putting them in the nominative form)

<h3>16 March 2024</h3>
>Fixed some issues regarding the name day search
>New section: You can see times and time zones around the world

<h3>15 March 2024</h3>
>Fixed an issue with how dates are displayed
>You can now only use the Gregorian calendar to search for name days
>You can now format dates for days other than today
>Added three holidays: Maslenitsa, Kupala Night, and Freedom Day (Belarus)
>New section: You can now search your name to find your name day

<h3>14 March 2024</h3>
>Added the Mandaean word for Parwanaya to the calendar
>Fixed an issue regarding Hebrew and Arabic numerals
>Changed Belarus emoji to ⚪🔴⚪
>Added Belarusian name days
>Fixed issues with a few Greek name days
>Bahá'í calendar now uses Arabic instead of Persian numerals
>Ayyám-i-Há became listed as a holiday and there is no longer a nineteen day feast for this intercalary month

<h3>13 March 2024</h3>
>Added the city of Erbil
>Added the Yarsan direction of prayer

<h3>11 March 2024</h3>
>Canada and USA now updated to daylight savings time... this should be done automatically soon enough
>New date formatting section let's you see how dates are formatted in different locations
>Eid al-Adha is now shown as four days instead of one

<h3>9 March 2024</h3>
>Sunrise/Sunset section organized; twilights are now shown as ranges of time

<h3>8 March 2024</h3>
>Changed the font to make ensure consistency in displaying some languages
>Added name days for Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, and Spain
>Visually organized the name day section a little better

<h3>7 March 2024</h3>
>Completely reorganized website into six sections with a central menu
>Fixed display issues with some weekly celebrations
>Added astronomical, nautical, and civil twilights
>Contact / Updates are now independent sections, not attached to the calendar
>Added a "name day" section. So far the name days of Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Sweden are shown

<h3>3 March 2024</h3>
>Monthly celebrations is now called Monthly practices
>Added Rhumb line prayer direction calculators

<h3>2 March 2024</h3>
>Finally fixed issues with the prayer direction determiner
>Added a few new cities
>Added a few Ethiopian Christian holidays
>Prayer directions now include cardinal directions (N, SE, NW, etc.) and arrows (like ↙)

<h3>1 March 2024</h3>
>Added the Mandaean observance of Mbaṭṭal (ominous) days
>Added Wednesday and Friday as Orthodox Christian fasting days as well as the Druze meeting day (Thursday)
>Added Good Friday and some other Gregorian and Julian holidays related to Easter calculation, as well as Assyrian New Year
>Added Mandaean brakha times
>Added 26 new national holidays (224 total)

<h3>28 February 2024</h3>
>Made the holiday of Shavuot two days in the diaspora
>Added isru chag to the Three Pilgramage Holidays in Judaism
>"National holidays" is now "National/Global holidays"; Leap day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day have been moved
>Added 58 more national/global holidays (198 total)

<h3>27 February 2024</h3>
>Added the Jewish fast days of Zayin Adar, Twentieth of Sivan, and Fast of Behav
>Added the Jewish prayer observation of Leil Selichot for the Italian rite of Judaism
>Added the Islamic holidays of Laylat al-Miʿraj, Laylat al-Raghaib, and the Night of Power
>Added the monthly observances of Yom Kippur Katan and White Nights

<h3>23 February 2024</h3>
>Added Ethiopian Christmas, the Pascal Triduum, Shrove Monday, Quinquagesima, Sexagesima, Septuagesima, and Allhallowtide
>Added 30 more national holidays (137 total)

<h3>22 February 2024</h3>
>Added the Druze holiday of Ziyarat al-Nabi Shu'ayb
>Added 41 more national holidays (107 total)

<h3>21 February 2024</h3>
>Added the Saudi cities of Medina and Riyadh
>National and Religious/Cultural Holidays are now separated
>Julian and Revised Julian calendars now both start at sunset
>Added the Orthodox holidays of Clean Monday and Great Lent
>Added 66 national holidays from around the world!
>Added Leap Day as a holiday

<h3>20 February 2024</h3>
>Added three Ahmadi holidays
>Fixed the way some observances are displayed
>Some Shia observances were added
>Three Yazidi holidays were added too
>Added the Mandaean holy day of the week, Habshaba (Sunday) and the Samaritan holy day Shabbat (Saturday)

<h3>5 February 2024</h3>
>Added two special Shabbats: Chazon & Shira

<h3>4 February 2024</h3>
>Added the rare Jewish observance of Birkat Hachama which happens once every 28 years

<h3>3 February 2024</h3>
>Added seven special Shabbat types (Shuva, Sehkalim, Zachor, Parah, HaChodesh, Nachamu, & HaGadol)

<h3>2 February 2024</h3>
>Added the Jewish holiday of Chag HaBanot, as well as Leil Selichot (in both Ashkenazi and Sephardi tradition)
>Added the Islamic observance of Jumu'atul-Wida

<h3>1 February 2024</h3>
>Added the Islamic holidays of Juloos-e-Ghausiya and Tasu'a
>Added seven Iranian (Solar Hijri) holidays
>Added two Mandaean holidays and made the Feast of the Great Shishlam last two days

<h3>31 January 2024</h3>
>Added the Kurdistan Jewish holiday of Seharane
>Added the Samaritan direction of prayer
>Reorganized the daily prayer time section
>Included many more zmanim

<h3>25 January 2024</h3>
>Added the Egyptian Jewish holiday of Seder El-Tawhid

<h3>16 January 2024</h3>
>Added a few more cities

<h3>12 January 2024</h3>
>Fixed date of Berber calendar
>Fixed the display of Bengali New Year and Yennayer

<h3>9 January 2024</h3>
>Changed Christian Sabbath to "Lord's Day"
>Added the cities of Akko, Jakarta and Melbourne
>Added the Mizrah angle
>Renamed "changelog" to Updates and slightly changed the appearance

<h3>6 January 2024</h3>
>The Qibla angle is set to "Face the Kaaba" if the city selected is Mecca
>Added New Year's Day as a holiday
>I changed the way some religious holidays are displayed
>Fixed Mexico City's time zone

<h3>2 January 2024</h3>
>Changed website title from Date Converter to Universal Calendar Project
>Now you can select location to see sunrise/sunset times
>Four of the five daily Islamic prayers are shown too, as are three Jewish times [Daybreak, end of Shabbat & Sof Zman Kriyat Shema]
>The direction of the Qibla and Qiblih is now shown too

<h3>27 December 2023</h3>
>Fixed an issue with the display of Zoroastrian holidays

<h3>23 December 2023</h3>
>Shab-e-Barat, a Muslim holiday, was added
    
<h3>22 December 2023</h3>
>The Jewish fast day, '10th of Tevet' was added

<h3>20 December 2023</h3>
>Added the holy day of the week for Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá'í Faith
>Added the monthly observances of Rosh Chodesh [Judaism] and the Nineteen Day Feasts [Bahá'í Faith]    
    
<h3>15 December 2023</h3>
>Fixed another issue regarding Hanukkah days    

<h3>8 December 2023</h3>
>Fixed an issue regarding Hanukkah days

<h3>1 November 2023</h3>
>Added the Bahá'í observances of the Nineteen-Day Fast and Riḍván
>Fixed an issue of Bahá'í holidays not being displayed
    
<h3>29 September 2023</h3>
>Starting to change how individual sects display holidays

<h3>30 August 2023</h3>
>Fixed an issue with religions' Wikipedia article links

<h3>23 August 2023</h3>
>Added Wikipedia articles for the religions

<h3>22 August 2023</h3>
>Added the Mandaean festival of Parwanaya
>Names of religions are shown for holidays instead of the calendar name
>Fixed a minor glitch with date calculation in years centuries away

<h3>21 August 2023</h3>    
>Added the Christian holiday of Candlemas
>Labelled the holidays section and added an 'observances' section for longer holiday periods
>The observances so far are the Three Weeks, the Nine Days, the Ten Days of Repentance (all Judaism), Ramadan (Islam), Lent and Christmastide (Christian)
>Fixed an issue with displaying a link for the month of Adar in certain years

<h3>16 August 2023</h3>
>Rosh Hashanah Lemaasar Behema, Purim Katan, Shushan Purim Katan, and Purim Meshulash added to the Hebrew calendar

<h3>15 August 2023</h3>
>Fixed an issue in displaying the first day of the week of the Gregorian calendar   

<h3>31 July 2023</h3>
>Added the Dilami calendar
>Adjusted intercalculation of Solar Hijri and Tabarian calendars
    
<h3>18 July 2023</h3>
>Added Shushan Purim, fixed a Tisha B'Av date issue with the Hebrew calendar

<h3>14 July 2023</h3>
>Fixed a glitch with the day selector
>Moved Javanese, Ethiopian and Coptic's 'first day of week' to Monday
>Minor changes to website appearance

<h3>5 July 2023</h3>
>All the remaining holidays were readded
>Some Jewish holiday calculation issues were addressed
>The Jewish holiday of Mimouna was added
>Correction made: the Bengali calendar days start at sunrise
>Also corrected the Bengali calendar by one day oops :D
>Added Bengali, Berber, Javanese, Islamic, Julian, Javanese, Coptic, and Ethiopian New Years

<h3>4 July 2023</h3>
>Added back the majority of holidays
>Doubled range of almost every calendar to 760 years!
>Fixed a Zoroastrian holiday's link
>The changelog is now an HTML file, not a text document
>Added Bengali language era name

<h3>2 July 2023</h3>
>You can now select dates with the Japanese calendar
>Almost all calendars now have 380 years searchable (around a 160 year increase from the previous maximum)
>Holidays are no longer visible :( But the website loads much faster

<h3>30 June 2023</h3>
>You can now select dates with the Mayan calendar

<h3>28 June 2023</h3>
>Over half the calendar's months are now underlined and linked to articles
>Shows first day of week for every calendar, "not applicable" symbol added
>Extended reach of Julian and Kurdish calendars
>Added the Japanese calendar

<h3>24 June 2023</h3>
>First day now shown for Indian National and Kurdish calendars
>Fixed an issue with how first day and day start time was displayed
>Old Coptic numerals were added to the Coptic calendar
>Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday were added to the Gregorian calendar

<h3>20 June 2023</h3>
>Date now displayed under calendar selector
>French Republican calendar now selectable
>French Republican calendar now shows Roman numerals

<h3>19 June 2023</h3>
>Added that the 'day starts at sunset' to Coptic and Ethiopian
>Added information on the first day of the week by calendar
>Added the Mayan and French Republican calendars
>Removed the panel showing day of the week

<h3>4 June 2023</h3>
>Made some small stylistic changes
>Added Western and Eastern Easter, which has a complicated algorithm
>Added Christian holidays based on Easter: Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Feast of the Ascension, Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday
>More calendars can go to 2117 CE now
>Fixed issue with selecting Julian calendar
>Added Christmas for the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem (January 19th on the Gregorian calendar)

<h3>3 June 2023</h3>
>Fixed Julian calendar holiday issue

<h3>30 May 2023</h3>
>Fixed date of Armenian Christmas
>Added three Sikh holidays
>Added Javanese calendar (may need more research)
>The start of the day (midnight, sunrise, or sunset) is visible on all calendars now
>Increasing the reach by over 50 years for half the calendars :)
>There are now additional links further explaining some holidays
>Added Zoroastrian holidays to the Qadimi and Shahanshahi calendars

<h3>26 May 2023</h3>
>Added some Gregorian, Julian and Zoroastrian holidays

<h3>25 May 2023</h3>
>Added the Kurdish calendar
>Fixed a glitch with selecting certain Hebrew months
>Fixed some issues with how some holidays were displayed
>Added the Jewish holiday of Pesach (Passover)
>Added Hebrew fasts which move to avoid being on Saturday (Shabbat): "Fast of Gedalia", "Fast of Esther", "Fast of the Firstborn"

<h3>24 May 2023</h3>
>The days of the week are now in all six official UN languages
>Changed the apperance of the inputs and made some minor stylistic edits
>Ethiopian numerals are now used on the Ethiopian calendar
>Fixed a glitch involving months with multiple words in the name
>Show which calendars have days that start on sunrise or sunset (rather than midnight)

<h3>23 May 2023</h3>
>Renamed Coptic epagomenal month to "Pi Kogi Enavot"
>All calendars are shown in their native languages (and numeral systems)
>Switched the order of Tabarian months to be correct
>Added my email

<h3>22 May 2023</h3>
>Added "Julian-based" as a calendar selection category
>Removed the Burmese calendar for technical reasons :(
>Added Armenian Christmas (Jan 6) as a holiday
>Added holidays to the Julian calendar
>Added the day in French :)
>Around half the calendars are now additionally shown in their native languages

<h3>21 May 2023</h3>
>Added the Shia date for the holiday of Mawlid and added Eid al-Ghadir
>Added Nativity of John the Baptist as a Christian holiday
>Badi calendar renamed to Bahá'í
>Holidays can now be multiday (made Hanukkah 8 days and Rosh Hashanah 2 days)
>Added the Jewish festival of Sukkot (7 days)

<h3>20 May 2023</h3>
>Holidays are now shown for the Hebrew, Gregorian, Islamic Tabular, Mandaean, and Badi calendars
>Each holiday has a link to relevant information

<h3>6 May 2023</h3>
>Added Nanakshahi era "KE" and Nepal Sambat Solar era "NE"

<h3>4 May 2023</h3>
>Added Mandaean era "AA" and Indian National era "SE"

<h3>1 May 2023</h3>
>Simplified the Zoroastrian calendars' names
>Reorganized the 'calendar' selector based on calendar type
>The Hebrew month of Adar is now called Adar I in leap years
>Added the Burmese calendar, there may be some errors as there is very little information about it in English

<h3>30 April 2023</h3>
>Issue with selecting Nisan in some Hebrew calendar years solved
>Fixed a critical error which broke the website when the current Gregorian month day was less than 10

<h3>22 April 2023</h3>
>Fixed upper bound for Tabarian
>Added the Zoroastrian Fasli, Qadimi, and Shahanshahi calendars
>Revised the way months are displayed
>Added my personal website to the contact information

<h3>20 April 2023</h3>
>Made inputting dates easier
>I added another Islamic Tabular calendar, the Islamic Tabular Tayyibi calendar
>I added my name and a link to the changelog at the bottom
>The upper/lower year limits are now shown for every calendar now, not just Gregorian
>Fixed some of the Wikipedia links
>Added Nepal Sambat Solar and Thai Solar calendars
>Added Tabarian, it could have leap year algorithm issues :(
>Fixed Bengali calendar issue
>Fixed an issue with Revised Julian calendar leap years
>Made the website a little more aesthetic and added the Montserrat font
>Eras are now displayed with most calendars (like CE, AD, AH, SH, BE etc.)

<h3>19 April 2023</h3>
>Added Hebrew and Islamic Tabular calendars
>Improved UI: The website now automatically loads the current date
>Improved the date selection scheme

<h3>18 April 2023</h3>
>Added the Badi, Bengali, Juche, Julian, Minguo, Mool Nanakshahi, and Revised Julian calendars
>Indian is now called Indian National, Iranian is now called Solar Hijri
>Added Wikipedia links to the calendars
>Reduced upper year limit to 2060 CE (sorry, will increase later)

<h3>15 January 2023</h3>
>Added the Coptic calendar

<h3>14 January 2023</h3>
>Added the Ethiopian calendar

<h3>13 January 2023</h3>
>I started the change log today :)
>So far the program converts dates in the Gregorian, Armenian, Berber, Indian, Iranian, and Mandaean calendars from approximately 1901 to 2172 CE</pre>

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