Introducing Kenat (ቀናት): The open-source toolkit for the Ethiopian calendar.

Introducing Kenat (ቀናት): The open-source toolkit for the Ethiopian calendar.

Posted on June 20, 2025

Categories: Technology programming

This library solves the complexities of working with Ethiopia's 13-month calendar by providing a single, reliable solution for developers. The JavaScript version is stable and ready to use.

Core Features:

  • Full Calendar System: Handles conversions (EC↔GC), date arithmetic, and Ge'ez numerals.

     

     

     

  • Complete Holiday Engine: Calculates all fixed, movable Christian (via Bahire Hasab), and movable Islamic holidays.

     

     

     

  • Headless UI: Comes with kenat-ui, a set of headless hooks for building custom calendar components in React.

     

     

Call for Contributors:

The vision is a multi-language toolkit. I am now starting the next phase and looking for collaborators to help port Kenat to Python, Dart, and PHP.

 

If you are a developer or designer interested in making our cultural heritage more accessible through technology, let's connect and build this together.

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