The calendar for Mac
The Tibetan date in the menu bar — visible without opening anything
What it does
The menu bar shows the lunar day, and on tsok days and the great festivals it says which. So whether today is tsok is visible without opening anything.
Click the icon and today drops down in full: the Tibetan date, the weekday with its planet, the moon, the year, and the practice days ahead.
The window carries the same five views as the site: grid, list, week, upcoming, year.
Everything is worked out on the computer itself. The app talks to nothing and runs with the network off.
First launch: what macOS will say
The app is not signed with an Apple certificate — that costs $99 a year, and for now the money is better spent elsewhere. So macOS will not open it the first time. Once only; after that it opens normally.
A window appears whose only bright button offers to move the app to the Trash. Do not press it.
- 1Open the app. In the window that appears, press Done — not Move to Trash.
- 2Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll to the bottom.
- 3There you will find a line about the blocked app and an Open Anyway button. Press it and confirm with your password.
That is all. Later launches are ordinary, and updates install without this too.
Or with no block at all
macOS is not blocking the app itself but the “downloaded from the internet” mark a browser puts on it. A file fetched through Terminal carries no such mark, so no warning appears.
Only do this if Terminal does not worry you. The command below is worth reading: it downloads a file and opens it, nothing more. Never paste a command you do not understand into Terminal — not even from sites you trust.
Open Terminal (Applications → Utilities → Terminal), paste this and press Enter:
curl -L -o ~/Downloads/tibetan-calendar.dmg "https://www.firstbuddha.space/mac/download" && open ~/Downloads/tibetan-calendar.dmgThe usual window opens, where the app is dragged into Applications. After that it starts on a double-click.
Updates
The app checks for a new version itself and shows what changed. Nothing installs without your say-so — you press update when you want to.
And if not a Mac
The calendar on the site does the same and works anywhere. It can be installed on a phone and opened without a connection, and the practice days can be subscribed to in your own calendar.