Hebrew NSCalendar months are wrong?

[actionjdjackson]

Something is odd with Hebrew months when using NSCalendar - I type the following code:

let hebrewCalendar = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierHebrew)

let birthOfJesusDateComponents = NSDateComponents()

birthOfJesusDateComponents.year = 3755   //either 5 or 6 B.C. is possible year of His birth, I chose 6

birthOfJesusDateComponents.month = 7     //this is where the problem arises - 15 Tishri (7th month) is His most likely birthday

birthOfJesusDateComponents.day = 15

birthOfJesusDateComponents.hour = 21     //just a guess - sometime at night

birthOfJesusDateComponents.minute = 0

birthOfJesusDateComponents.second = 0

birthOfJesus = hebrewCalendar!.dateFromComponents(birthOfJesusDateComponents)!

Then, elsewhere, I type:

let hebrew = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierHebrew)

let formatter = NSDateFormatter()

formatter.calendar = hebrew

formatter.dateStyle = .FullStyle

formatter.timeStyle = .MediumStyle


println(formatter.stringFromDate(birthOfJesus))

And I get as an output:

Friday, 15 Adar 3755 at 21:00:00

But here's the catch, Adar is NOT the 7th month of the Hebrew calendar, Tishri is. At least in the ancient Hebrew calendar. Does the modern Hebrew calendar have a different month order? I'm an amateur Biblical scholar not a modern-day speaker so I don't know the answer to this.

 

[chscag]

The Hebrew calendar has not changed. See the following link for an explanation of the Hebrew calendar and how it's derived.