Show HN: Sunrise Calendar: custom printed calendar with sun and moon info

Post by elijahparker » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 2:15 AM UTC

gus_massa wrote: post #10

elijahparker wrote: post #9

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It gets the country from the browser rather than the location, but maybe I should change that. I guess that makes sense with the month names since they’re coming from the js Date object. Are the weekday names in Spanish also then? What would you need the month/weekday names customization for?

> What would you need the month/weekday names customization for? For me are fine. I thought in the printed were only available only in English and for some weird reason I was seeing the online version in Spanish. I still don't thrust javascript. One interesting cases, some people (I!!) have a strong opinion about "sePtiembre" vs "setiembre". For weekdays, perhaps a shorthand "L Ma Mi J V S D" instead of the full name…

Post by elijahparker » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 3:16 AM UTC

gus_massa wrote: post #12

elijahparker wrote: post #11

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Interesting -- "setiembre" is new to me. Would 7° also then be "setima"? I don't have custom names yet, but I think full Spanish support should be working now (though only with newly created calendars, since the language is determined at the start).

It use to be valid only "sePtimebre" until a few years ago. I can find the date, may be 2000+something. Now "setiembre" is also valid. It looks like it's popular in Peru, but sometimes it's used here too. (When I say it, the "P" is weak, probably closer to "seBtiembre", but it's there.) The tradition is Spanish is to keep the orthography synchronized with the oral form, so if some variant gets too popular it's includ…