Omer counter now live on Judaism Codidact!

The counter appears on the right side of the site, and shows the Hebrew date, the day of the Omer, and the day of the week. It looks like this:

The counter changes at 8PM every day, in your local timezone, to keep more-or-less on track with the Hebrew date without making resource-heavy calculations and whatnot.
The Omer counter uses the Hebcal API to get the Hebrew date and the day of the Omer.

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Nice -- thanks luap42! (I'm guessing the API doesn't know about daylight saving time, as it hasn't rolled over for me yet at about 8:30PM. Not a complaint; I'll check back in half an hour. I'm mentioning it in case anyone else is seeing this and is confused like I was.) — Monica Cellio‭ 21 days ago

I was about to comment with exactly what @Monica said. As a programmer, I can definitely say that time zones, DST and related issues are very frequently messed up, in systems large and small. If it changes at 9:00, "good enough" since Tzeis Hacochavim is currently between 8 and 9. — manassehkatz‭ 21 days ago

Seems to be a bug. 9:08pm EDT, display changed to: Today is: 20th of Nisan, 5781 5th day of the Omer Wednesday night (Thursday) Date & Omer changed, but day of week did not. Windows 7. Identical results with Firefox, Chrome & Edge. — manassehkatz‭ 21 days ago

I'm seeing the same thing -- 20 Nisan (so it's rolled over), but Wednesday night (Thursday). Mac, Chrome. (Also, yes: timezones are a pain, DST makes it worse, and approximating the time is just fine for our purposes.) — Monica Cellio‭ 21 days ago

I've put in a pull request to fix that. — Mithical‭ 21 days ago

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