KosherKotlin Zmanim API

The KosherKotlin Zmanim library is a Kotlin Multiplatform API for a specialized calendar that can calculate different astronomical times including sunrise and sunset (default uses NOAA's algorithm) and Jewish zmanim or religious times for prayers and other Jewish religious duties.

It is based on Eliyahu Hershfeld's KosherJava.

For non religious astronomical / solar calculations use the AstronomicalCalendar.

The ZmanimCalendar class contains the most common zmanim or religious time calculations. For a much more extensive list of zmanim use the ComplexZmanimCalendar. This class contains the main functionality of the Zmanim library.

For a basic set of instructions on the use of the API, see How to Use the Zmanim API, zmanim code samples and the KosherJava FAQ. See the KosherJava Zmanim site for additional information.

Get Started

Dependency

This library uses Kotlinx-DateTime and is KMP-friendly. There are plans to add it to mavenCentral in the near future. Until then, you can copy the kosherkotlin folder into your project.

If you only need Kotlin/JVM support, you can checkout the commit before the transition, when the library only supported Kotlin/JVM and was tested and stable, and copy the files in zmanim.

Building from source

This library is currently a Compose Multiplatform app with a package for the library and a package for the app. The app is a demo of the library, and is not required to use the library.

Before running!

• check your system with KDoctor
• install JDK 17 on your machine
• add local.properties file to the project root and set a path to Android SDK there

Android

To run the application on android device/emulator:

• open project in Android Studio and run imported android run configuration

To build the application bundle:

• run ./gradlew :composeApp:assembleDebug
• find .apk file in composeApp/build/outputs/apk/debug/composeApp-debug.apk

Desktop

Run the desktop application: ./gradlew :composeApp:run

iOS

To run the application on iPhone device/simulator:

• Open iosApp/iosApp.xcproject in Xcode and run standard configuration
• Or use Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile plugin for Android Studio

Browser

Run the browser application: ./gradlew :composeApp:jsBrowserDevelopmentRun

Usage

The library was designed to be as idiomatic as possible, both in its implementation and its API surface. Every client-facing zero-argument function is accessible as a computed property (e.g. ComplexZmanimCalender().alos72).

Every zman has a lazily computed generic property called value.

Zman.DateBased objects have a momentOfOccurrence property which lazily computes the Instant of the zman's occurrence.

Zman.ValueBased objects have a duration property which lazily computes the Duration of how long the zman lasts.

A lazy list of all zmanim can be accessed using the allZmanim property of ComplexZmanimCalendar or ZmanimCalendar.

Every Zman object has a definition property which contains the metadata of the rules used to calculate the zman.

val location = GeoLocation("New York", 40.7, -74.0, 0.0, TimeZone.of("America/New_York"))
val calendar = ComplexZmanimCalendar(location)
println(calendar.allZmanim.filter { it.definition.type == ZmanType.ALOS }.map { it.value })
println(calendar.sunrise)
println(calendar.alos72.momentOfOccurrence)
println(calendar.shaahZmanis72Minutes.duration)

Hosted documentation coming soon!

Future

• There are plans to port the library to kotlinx-datetime so that it is multi-platform friendly. This is a major overhaul - PRs are welcomed.
  • ZmanimFormatter needs to be re-written once kotlinx-datetime implements formatting
• Library distribution needs to be improved (e.g. publishing to mavenCentral, etc.), especially in light of the kotlinx-datetime port (not sure it builds properly)
  • May need to implement multi-project gradle - not sure how to do that yet.
• There are still a significant amount of javadocs/kdocs that were written for specific Java getters, setters, or properties, which were combined into a public property, and all of the javadocs/kdocs were copied to the property. They must be combined. There is often overlap or complete duplication between doc strings, but sometimes there are notes only relevant to the setter or getter.
• Unit tests need to be ported from upstream. They are (slowly) being translated into Java from the Python port.

Projects using this library

• BeautifulZmanim: a multi-platform zmanim app for desktop, web, and mobile. Written using Jetpack Compose.

License & Attribution

The library is released under the LGPL 2.1 license. If you made a publicly-available program that uses this library, I want to know! Just send me a heads-up email at "software at sternbach.org".

Disclaimer

While I did my best to get accurate results, please double check before relying on these zmanim for halacha lemaaseh.