Calendars & Dates » Publications, Software & Supplies

A Handbook of Dates : For Students of British History

A book by C. R. Cheney.

Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year

A book by David Ewing Duncan. An excellent general history of how we order the days as we do. Great background reading for genealogists struggling with the changes to our calendar in history.

Calendar Creation Software

Calendar Pal 1.0.2

For Palm OS. Monthly view of Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic, Julian, or Persian calendar.

Calisto

A free calendar program (W95+ and DOS) to display British calendar 1-2999 with holy days and monarchs. Compares Julian, Gregorian, Jewish, Islam, European dates.

Date Calculator

By Acute Software. Simple utility to calculate the number of days, weeks, months or years between any two dates.

Dictionary of Saints Days, Fasts, Feasts & Festivals

A book by Colin Waters.

GEDCOM Date Calculator

A free utility for converting dates between Gregorian, Julian, Hebrew, and French Republic calendars and for doing calculations on dates such as finding time spans or adding and subtracting time spans to dates. The Date Calculator is available for MacOS or Windows. The Date Calculator can work with fuzzy dates (such as just a year and a month) and still do conversions and calculations. Such fuzzy date calculations are useful for genealogists working with less than complete date information.

Genealogical dates: A user-friendly guide

A book by Kenneth L. Smith.

Revolution

Software utility for the Palm that converts dates in the French Republican calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

The Oxford Companion to the Year

A book by Bonnie Blackburn.