Kenat Moves to kenat.et, With a New Look

The Kenat site has a new address: kenat.et .

An Ethiopian calendar library now lives on an Ethiopian domain. It is short enough to say out loud, easy to type on a phone, and it finally sounds like the project instead of a hosting provider. Everything that lived at kenat-doc.vercel.app is here now, and old links forward to the new address, so nothing you bookmarked or shared breaks.

The move came with a redesign, a set of new pages, and a place to show off the apps that run on Kenat. Here is what changed.

A New Look

The old site leaned on glass panels and gradients. It looked like a lot of other sites. The new one is deliberately quiet: white and near-black surfaces, the original sky blue as the only accent, Geist for text and Noto Sans Ethiopic for Amharic.

The Ethiopian identity comes from real content rather than decoration. The first thing you see on the home page is today’s date, computed live by the library in your browser: the Amharic weekday and month, the Ge’ez numerals, the Gregorian twin, the Ethiopian time and the next holiday.

A few other things came along with it:

• A real Ethiopian clock. The time converter and the playground now use an SVG clock face with an Ethiopian hour dial, in Ge’ez or Arabic numerals.
• Everyday time words. Times are labelled ጠዋት, ከሰዓት, ምሽት and ሌሊት, the way people actually say them, instead of a flat day and night.
• Calmer tools, blog and docs. The tools and the blog are simple card grids, and every blog post is dated in both calendars.
• Light and dark. Both themes were designed together, not one derived from the other.

Ethiopian Dates, Answered Directly

Most people who need an Ethiopian date are not developers. They want to know what today is, when Fasika falls this year, or how long ago Enkutatash was. So the site now answers those questions directly, on pages built for them.

Today in Ethiopia

kenat.et/today shows today’s date in Addis Ababa: the Ethiopian date in English, Amharic and Ge’ez numerals, the current Ethiopian time, how many days are left in the year, and the next holidays. It updates live, so it is right even if you leave the tab open overnight.

Every Holiday, With a Countdown

kenat.et/holidays lists every holiday this year and next in both calendars. Each holiday also has its own page: Enkutatash, Meskel, Genna, Timket, Adwa, Fasika, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and fifteen more.

Every holiday page tells you how many days are left until the next one, how long ago the last one was, and its dates for past and future years. Movable feasts come from Bahire Hasab, and the Muslim holidays come from the Hijri calendar, exactly as the library computes them.

The Whole Year, Month by Month

kenat.et/calendar shows all 13 months of the current year, Meskerem through Pagume, with the Gregorian date under every day and the holidays marked. Every year from 2010 to 2030 has its own page and holiday list, and every single date links to a page with that day in both calendars.

Every one of these pages is generated by kenat itself. If a date is wrong there, it is wrong in the library, and it gets fixed for everyone at once.

Apps Built With Kenat

The part of this release I am happiest about is a small strip on the home page: Apps built with Kenat.

A library is only as useful as the things people build with it, and Kenat now runs inside real apps on Google Play:

KenatEthiopian calendar & holidaysOditMoney tracker from CBE & telebirr SMSTotalsPrivate spending records from bank SMS

• Kenat  is the calendar app itself: five calendar views, holiday artwork, events, tasks and widgets.
• Odit  tracks your money from CBE and telebirr SMS.
• Totals  keeps private spending records from bank SMS, and added the Ethiopian calendar and Ethiopian time through kenat-dart.

There is a small detail for the developers behind these apps. Every Play Store link on kenat.et carries an install referrer, so installs from the showcase show up with kenat.et as their source in Play Console. If Kenat sends you users, you can see it.

Add Yours

Built something with Kenat? An app, a website, a bot, a widget, anything. Open a showcase issue on GitHub  with a link and a line about what it does, and it will join the list on the home page.

What Stays the Same

The docs, the tools and the libraries are exactly where you left them, just at a new address:

• Documentation for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Dart, PHP and the CLI
• Tools: date converter, time converter, month grid, Bahire Hasab and the holiday browser
• Blog and release notes

If you link to Kenat from your own project’s README or site, please update the link to https://kenat.et . The old one still works, but the new one is shorter and it is the one that will stay.

መልካም ጊዜ. See you at the new address.

Get Kenat

Source code for every package lives on GitHub  , and updates go out on Telegram  .