Download a complete calendar and lectionary ‘almanac’ for the liturgical year beginning on Advent Sunday 2005, and ending on the eve of Advent Sunday 2006.
This almanac is available in a number of formats for Palm Datebook, Apple iCal, and Microsoft Outlook, and for other vCalendar-compatible calendar applications.
The file lect-2006.dba is a Palm Datebook archive file for Palm Desktop for Windows. This Datebook Archive file has been created using Palm Desktop version 4.1.4, the latest version available at Palm. It is possible that this file may not load into earlier versions of Palm Desktop. If you have this problem, you can import the vCal version (see below).
The Datebook Archive file is tied to UK time, GMT in the winter and BST in the summer. If you (or your Datebook) are in a different timezone then the calendar entries may well not import to the correct dates. If you have this problem, you can import the vCal version (see below).
Agendus for Windows – Palm Desktop Edition shares the same files as Palm Desktop for Windows. The simplest way of importing into Agendus is to quit Agendus, start Palm Desktop for Windows, and import the dba file (above). Then quit Palm Desktop and restart Agendus.
The file lect-2006.vcs is a vCalendar file which can be imported into Palm Desktop for Windows. It may also be useful for importing into other calendar applications. If you have trouble with the dba file (above) then this file should import into earlier versions of Palm Desktop which support vCal import. Import in the same way (File -> Import, then select 'vCal file', and choose the .vcs file). You will need to slightly tidy up afterwards, as it gets the import wrong on the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October -- you will have to turn the items on those dates into 'all day' events rather than timed events.
The file lect-2006-palm-mac.vcs is a vCalendar file which can be imported into Palm Desktop for Macintosh.Import using the menu command File -> Import, and choose the .vcs file).
The file lect-2006-ical-mac.ics is an iCalendar file which can be imported into version 2 of Apple's iCal. Save the .ics file to your hard disc, then in iCal select the menu command File -> Import, select the default iCal option, and then choose the file that you saved. You will probably want to load the data into its own new calendar so that you can manage it separately. From here you can sync the calendar to a Palm or other PDA.
This file does not import into older versions of iCal, including version 1.5.5 which is the version freely available on Apple's website. Version 2 appears to be only available with Mac OS X 10.4. If you are using iCal v 1.5 then you can import this vCal file.
The file lect-2006-outlook.csv is a csv file which can be imported into Microsoft Outlook 2003, as well as into other applications such as a spreadsheet. Save the file to your disc and then import into Outlook using File -> Import and Export to start the Import and Export Wizard.
For further information on these files, the data they contain or how to make further suggestions, see this Instructions page.
Calculate the times of sunrise and sunset for your UK location, and import to your calendar. See crosscal.
For details of other Palm datafiles, see our main page.
Simon Kershaw
27 October 2005