Anno Domini 2026
Copyright (C) Enzo Ciaffarafá, 1995 - 2026
Free and Shareware Calendar for IBM PC + Microsoft
Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7, Vista, x64, XP
Anno
Domini 2026 Bug Fixes
v1.11 - Build 2607, 11th July 2026
(1) Bug fixed where access to the internet
could be blocked as ping address used to test Internet availability stopped
working. New ping address used and issue fixed. Ping address now can be changed
remotely if needed.
(2) Clock Comparisons display correctly
now on scaled desktops.
(3) Various dead internet links fixed.
v1.10 - Build 2601, 1st January 2026
(1) Rare bug in interpolation
code used for rise and set times of the planets resolved where large interpolation
values are ignored to avoid AD potentially crashing on startup. Major example
happened on the 28th November 2025 when the rise/set times of Neptune were close
to midnight and the interpolation value chosen was too large.
(2) Calculation of the altitude of planets at rise/set improved.
(3) Calculation of the planetary positions now stopped for anything but Pro
users saving wasted resources.
(4) Snapshots now work correctly when the screen display is scaled (usually
4K desktops).
(5) Dead link for Horoscopes in On This Day tab now fixed.
(6) Sundial screensaver now works correctly for more screen resolutions.
(7) Sundial screensaver preview window now corrected for scaled desktops.
(8) Bug in Perigee report fixed where wrong day of week sometimes displayed
and spacing narrowed to ensure all results fit on the page.
(9) Sun & Moon Phenomena report fixed to ensure spacing between lines narrowed
to ensure all results fit on A4.
(10) Enlarged Sundial now fills
the screen correctly for 1440p and 4K resolutions in the Sundial tab.
(11) Home weather location on
the desktop was not updating properly and now updates correctly in synch with
the Weather tab.
Anno
Domini 2025 Bug Fixes
v1.09 - Build 2501, 6th January 2025
(1) Revised code for downloading
the weather data to ensure AD remains stable and does not crash if the hosting
website has server issues or any issue which prevents the downloading of the
weather data.
(2) Fixed dead links to the CIA Factbook in the Locations tab and any dead Internet
weather links.
(3) Multi monitor support for
the Anno Domini screensaver has now been capped at 1080p screen resolutions.
Anno
Domini 2024 Bug Fixes
v1.08- Build 2308, 14th August 2023
(1) Weather provider
Dark Sky replaced with WeatherAPI for all weather forecasting in AD as Dark
Sky service stopped in March 2023 causing the program to crash.
(2) A number of dead internet links have been replaced.
Anno
Domini 2022 Bug Fixes
v1.07- Build 2203, 5th March 2022
(1) Fixed major crash
issue where division zero would occur when the latest currency conversions are
downloaded from the European Central Bank. The Russian Ruble had been removed
causing the error. The Russian Ruble has since been removed from the list of
converted currencies.
(2) Ten other currencies which were dormant in AD and did not have live exchange
rates have now been activated in the Currency Converter. These currencies are
Brazilian Real, Chinese Renminbi, Indian Rupee, Indonesian Rupee, Israeli Shekel,
Philippine Peso, Mexican Peso, Turkish Lira, Romanian Leu and South Korean Won.
v1.07
- Build 2201, 23rd January 2022
(1) Fixed major crash issue
on startup where AD would report an invalid date and shut down. This was caused
by a corrupted file downloaded from the AD host website. AD now checks the integritry
of this file before proceeding.
(2) Fixed issue with AD screensaver which had been defaulting to deactivated
status since the introduction of Windows 10 Build 1809.
(3) Event Editor bug fixed which stopped the Events list in the Events tab from
updating to reflect the change made.
(4) Fixed bug in Alarms function which prevented them from being activated.
(5) Dead RSS news feeds removed and replaced with new active ones.
(6) Various dead Internet links have been updated on the Conversion tab and
others including Microsoft DST News.
(7) Fixed bug preventing AD opening the Reports tab on startup.
(8) Fixed dead internet links to the comic websites, Birthdays and Chronicle
for the On This Day tab.
(9) Fixed dead weather internet links to the North America Rain Radar and North
America Temperature links.
(10) Ensured Windows version detected and displayed in the About screen is correctly
reflected for Windows 11 users.
Anno
Domini 2019 Bug Fixes
v1.06
- Build 1126, 26th November 2018
(1) Fixed form position of Desktop Clocks, New
City and Conversion Calculator so appears in middle of first screen on multi
monitor setups.
(2) Fixed crash bug caused by file KEYS.INI filling up all available disc space
when Internet not available.
(3) Ensured Benchmark dialog appears topmost.
(4) Ensured home location confirmation dialog appears topmost.
(5) Ensured Latitude/Longitude dialog box in Location tab appears topmost.
(6) Changed wording of version number and date of location files information
dialog in About tab.
(7) RSS news reader now traps for exception errors and prevents Anno Domini
from shutting down.
(8) Amended various RSS news feeds which were no longer in operation.
(9) Amended various URLs which were no longer working.
(10) Fixed bug to ensure that the Anno Domini screen saver is the default screen
saver in Windows when the Plus! Pack is installed.
Anno
Domini 2018 Bug Fixes
v1.05
- Build 1124, 24th November 2017
(1) Fixed bug in BMP/JPG screenshot
to reduce width/height by 2 pixels for Win 10.
(2) Fixed bug in display of preview
clocks in Control Panel for Desktop Weather Launcher.
(3) Fixed bug which prevents globe
metadata files being created and stored on users hard drive.
(4) Fixed DST bug in the Sun tab when
the twilight graph is displayed.
(5) Fixed DST bug in altitudes of the
Sun and the Moon for Solar Eclipse times.
(6) Fixed bug in RSS Reader if an exception
error occurs.
(7) Fixed Internet links in the Convert
tab.
(8) Fixed crash bug in time picker
in Options tab to select alarm time.
(9) Fixed Yahoo Horoscopes internet
link.
(10) Fixed desktop clock sizes on desktop
and preview views.
(11) Fixed position of desktop clocks
when the screen resolution changes.
(12) Fixed bug to ensure the Moon displayed
in Weather Launcher updates when the date changes.
(13) Fixed dead Internet links for
UK Visible and Australia Rain Radar Weather options.
(14) Fixed Print Form/Register Anno
Domini entry in Taskbar menu when switching between Free/Standard/Pro.
(15) Fixed downloading latest file
from AD server cache bug - now loads direct from server not the cache.
(16) Fixed height of enlarged Sundial.
(17) Fixed formatting of Hunters and
Harvest Moon display.
(18) Fixed error in display of local
time shown in Location tab when location changed and current time is between
11:00pm and midnight.
(19) Fixed error in displayed distances
between holiday and home location in Location tab when DMS selected.
(20) Fixed error in Sundial tab - sunrise/sunset/twilight
times now correctly reflect the local date and time.
(21) Fixed bug in calculation of next
Friday 13th which previously did not check if it had already passed in the current
month and year.
(22) Fixed border around globe panel
on Location tab.
(23) Fixed layout of Desktop Clock
Control Panel and ensured font controls disabled where applicable.
(24) Fixed exit procedure
of Anno Domini to ensure Taskbar icon disappears when program is terminated
during an update.
Anno
Domini 2017 Bug Fixes
v1.04
- Build 1, 28th January 2017
(1) Times for perigee, apogee, perihelion
and aphelion now correctly adjust for time zone and Daylight Saving Time (DST).
(2) Azimuth and Altitude results for the planets are now correctly calculated
to take into account local Daylight Saving Time (DST) settings.
(3) Selecting No Daylight Saving Time from the Options tab now correctly adjusts
all times displayed not to take DST into account.
(4) Last Moon Phase calculation bug fixed in Astronomy tab which previously
could cause an incorrect date to be displayed and cause the program to freeze.
(5) The formatting of the 5 day weather forecasts displayed from Forecast.io
have been improved and various display anomalies corrected.
(6) Link to Help in Loan Calculator and Mortgage Calculator now active again.
(7) Display anomalies in Loan and Mortgage calculator corrected.
(8) All dead RSS feeds have been replaced by active feeds.
(9) Yahoo! Comic strips have been replaced by GoComics in the On This Day tab.
(10) UK TV listings in the On This Day tab have been changed to Radio Times.
(11) NASA Eclipse web page replaced by Astropixels in the Astronomy tab.
(12) Weather data for user defined locations now displayed correctly when Forecast.io
used as the weather provider.
(13) Clicking on the location names with a left or right click of the mouse
in the Sundial and Weather tabs will now correctly display weather forecast
information from Yahoo! and Weather.com.
(14) Mini Calendar settings now correctly saved to disk in Free mode when Save
Settings button used.
(15) Fixed bug which prevented the Calendar tab displaying as the default tab
on startup in Free mode.
(16) Bug in Mini Calendar month/year controls fixed to prevent program crash.
(17) Forecast.io is now the default provider of weather data in AD due to latency
issues with Yahoo!.
(18) Bug in calculation of Closest Perigee fixed where if closest perigee for
given year had already passed, the closest perigee for the upcoming year was
incorrectly displayed.
(19) Bug in Restore Locations feature fixed to take into account change in file
names of location files from 2016 version of AD.
(20) Bug fixed to speed up calculation of solar eclipses where previously the
start date was too far back.
(21) Bug fix to RSS reader which could cause AD to crash if RSS feed was no
longer active.
(22) Bug fix to AD installer which during upgrade process could at times not
find the necessary upgrade files.
(23) Bug fix to AD to ensure user defined locations take note of WOEID identifiers.
(24) Weather data download function now fixed for Windows XP.
(25) Access to the Julian Calendar function in Windows XP removed.
(26) Link to the Options tab
from the Mini tab now works correctly.
(27) The icons on the Daily and Weekly Diary buttons in the Calendar tab are
no longer greyed out for years where the function is not available. The function
is now made read only.
Anno
Domini 2016 Bug Fixes
v1.03
- Build 2, 3rd January 2016
(1) Calculation of the next
perihelion/aphelion (when Sun is closest/furthest away from Earth) amended to
ensure that the result displayed in the Astronomy tab is indeed the next one.
Program crash on startup as a result now fixed.
v1.03
- Build 1, 14th December 2015
(1) Bug fixed when home location is changed.
Previously the DST rule for the new location would not update until the next
time AD is run.
(2) The altitude scale shown in the Sun tab will now adjust correctly when the
height of the Sun/Moon is very high or very low.
(3) Bug removed in Moon tab where sometimes using the flick switch would cause
the program to crash.
(4) Flicker eliminated in Sundial tab when current date and time updates.
(5) Flicker eliminated in Planets tab when data updates.
(6) Erroneous location data for Castelldefels in ALL LOCATIONS list corrected.
(7) Background colour to Sun dialog for twilight/daylight areas corrected for
locations close to the North/South Pole.
(8) Delay in displaying the Events tab removed.
(9) Infinite loop bug removed at startup if Moon tab needed updating.
(10) Bug removed for Lite users who could sometimes not view calendars after
2010.
(11) Bug removed from the Reports tab where printing a report directly without
a preview would sometimes not allow the report to be printed.
(12) Outlook access from the
calendar tab removed for post Windows 7 users due to incompatibility with the
operating system.
(13) Yahoo! weather forecasting replaced by Forecast.io as Yahoo! no longer
provides up to date forecasting.
(14) Bugs removed from various reports which would not print correctly if a
Preview not selected first.
(15) The RSS News reader now
correctly updates when the Refresh Feed button is clicked.
Anno
Domini 2015 Bug Fixes
v1.02
- Build 1, 1st June 2015
(1) A number of errors in the location database
have been fixed.
(2) The program will now advise the user when it
cannot download the weather for a given location and advise which location requires
replacing in the weather tab.
v1.01 - Build 1, 4th May 2015
(1) Incompatibility with Windows
XP resolved where support for older versions of Internet Explorer had been removed
by third party websites. This would cause registration of Anno Domini with valid
details to fail. When downloading support files from the Internet, the program
will now no longer be diverted.
(2) AD now correctly determines
if access to the Internet is blocked (e.g. via firewall or anti-virus) and will
warn the user of this fact when the Diagnose function is used.
(3) Bug fixed which caused
Anno Domini to crash when user attempted to uninstall the program.
v1.00 - Build 1, 29th December 2014
(1) Display of yearly moon phases
amended to correctly display multiple instances of full and new moons in a given
month in the Moon Phases tab.
(2) Anno Domini News feature
now correctly checks for new newsletters on each download of weather updates
rather than at set times of the day.
(3) Weather tab now correctly
displays correct forecast information when no wind speed is measured at a selected
location.
(4) The display quality of the
Moon image in the Moon tab has been much improved to reduce jagged edges.
(5) Bug removed where shutting
down or restarting Windows from the desktop whilst AD was running could cause
the Windows system to hang or report an Exception error.
(6) Bug removed where if an RSS
Feed was no longer live or working this could cause an Exception error causing
AD to shut down.
(7) Anno Domini Taskbar menu
now correctly fits displays on vertical resolutions of 768 pixels and above
with more items placed on a secondary sub menu.
(8) Accuracy of the astronomical
data displayed in the Planets tab improved.
(9) Updating of Anno Domini location
data and program updates completely overhauled to allow for seamless updating
of the program.
(10) The display of the azimuth
and altitude of the Sun and the Moon in the Moon tab is now not shown when the
mouse does not hover over the main display area. Clicking on the current date
or time in the bottom right hand corner of the Moon tab will display the azimuth
and altitude of the Sun and the Moon for the current date and time.
(11) The About tab now displays
the build number along with the version number of the Windows operating system
in use.
(12) When comparing locations
from the Clocks tab, the comparison window will now centre underneath the main
window if the horizontal screen resolution is too low.
(13) When selecting World or
Home for the Sundial map, the display will now go full screen correctly. Also
applies when right clicking the mouse on the Sundial map.
(14) In the Reports tab, the
Centre text and Italics button settings for each report are now correctly remembered
and stored when the Save Margins button is clicked.
(15) If Show At Startup selected
and second instance of Anno Domini run, the main window previously did not display
any controls. Now fixed and correctly displays the main window in the centre
of the screen.
Anno Domini
2014 Bug Fixes
v1.00 - Build 1, 1st January 2014
(1) Countdown Solar Event can now
correctly be enabled/disabled in the Options tab.
(2) Crash prevented if download of weather fails due to server down or slow
to respond.
(3) RSS tab now displays tips correctly when mouse hovered over news item.
(4) Bug in planet data corrected where entries could be 1 hour out of accuracy.
(5) Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro correctly reflected on world
maps for Sundial functions.
(6) Automatic detection of new updates to Anno Domini in the Help tab now fixed.
(7) Bug fixed when Show At Startup function disabled would previously display
a blank form on the desktop.
(8) Daylight Saving Time has been amended for the following locations: Tripoli-Libya,
Jerusalem-Israel, Tel Aviv-Israel, Casablanca-Morocco, Marrakech-Morocco and
Rabat-Morocco.
(9) Date now displayed on each entry of the 5-day weather forecast function
(Professional Edition only).
Anno Domini
2013 Bug Fixes
v1.02 - Build 1, 14th July 2013
(1) Further changes
made to the 5-day weather forecast routines to prevent out of memory errors.
v1.01 - Build 1,
3rd June 2013
(1) 5-day weather forecast
data provider has been changed to prevent occurrence of access violations which
caused Anno Domini to crash.
(2) A number of Daylight Saving
Time rules have been amended for 2013 including Amman - Jordan, Suva - Fiji
and Asuncion - Paraguay.
v1.00 - Build 1,
5th November 2012
(1) Anno Domini now detects when
Internet access is unavailable and prevents the program from hanging due to
Internet failure.
(2) The RSS feeds and Anno Domini News features now always download directly
from the Internet rather than occasionally use a local copy.
(3) Latest Updates feature in the Help tab now working correctly.
(4) The Sundial tab now displays correctly when enlarged if selected as the
startup tab.
(5) Uninstall functionality of Anno Domini amended to support removal of any
installed version of Anno Domini.
Anno Domini
2012 Bug Fixes
v1.00 - Build 1,
15th January 2012
(1) Hovering on an RSS Feed now
correctly displays further information on that story.
(2) Numerous corrections to the formatting of the display of the 5 day weather
forecasts.
(3) Print Preview now displays correctly in Windows 7.
Anno Domini
2011 Bug Fixes
v1.00 - Build 1,
4th January 2011
(1) Corrections made to the display of the Sundial
when viewed in full-screen mode.
(2) Correction made to the display of the home location
in the Sundial when differing locations selected but not chosen from the database.
(3) Corrections made to the display of the Time
Zone map in the Locations tab.
(4) Correction made to the display of the Print
Preview of the currently selected Report.
(5) Correction made to display of Ticker in Calendar
tab to prevent text spilling over one line.
(6) Corrections made to the formatting of the display
of the 5 day Weather Forecasts.
(7) Correction made to the display of the naming
of Pluto in the Planets tab.
(8) Correction made to the display of the Desktop
Clocks in Windows 7.
(9) Various memory leaks have been removed.
(10) Bug removed preventing selection of a user-defined
location to interrogate current weather forecast.
(11) Bug removed which prevented the Weekly Diary
being available for years between 2011 and 2020.
(12) Bug removed which prevented diary entries being
printed for years between 2010 and 2020.
Anno Domini
2010 Bug Fixes
v1.01 - Build 1, 17th May 2010
1) Colour scheme for
forms amended to display correctly in XP/Vista/7.
2) Coloured background added to the On This Day information screen.
3) The spacing of the desktop clocks has been amended.
4) Crash bug fixed where if the Internet connection was lost the program could
hang.
5) Main window will now centre on screen when the Weather tab is selected.
6) The time format of DST Begins/Ends displayed in the Location tab amended.
7) The RSS Feeds have been amended to ensure all are active.
Anno Domini
2009 Bug Fixes
v1.00
- Build 1, 1st December 2008
No
bugs fixed in this version.
Anno Domini
2008 Bug Fixes
v1.01
- Build 1, 1st July 2008
(1) A bug in the Currency Converter
has been removed allowing currency conversion rates to be downloaded daily again.
v1.00 - Build 1, 20th January 2008
(1) Bug removed from Diary system
where incorrectly saved diary entries could be shown for the year 2004 or 2008;
(2) Bug removed in calculation
of the angle of tilt of the Moon for southern hemisphere locations.
Anno Domini
2007 Bug Fixes
v1.03 - Build 1, 1st October 2007
(1) Daylight Saving Time Rules
changed for many locations to bring Anno Domini into line with the latest 2007
definitions.
v1.02 - Build 1, 20th February 2007
(1) The in-built help is now accessible
in Windows Vista;
(2) The Sundial is now correctly
displayed on widescreen (1440 x 900) displays when the full-screen option is
used;
(3) Clock Comparisons are now correctly
displayed on widescreen (1440 x 900) displays;
(4) Corrections made to the following
locations: Athens, Thessalonika, Tblisi and Amman;
(5) Corrections made to Daylight
Saving Time for locations in Brazil, Iceland, Egypt, Iran, New Zealand, Israel,
Mexico and Uruguay;
(6) Correction made to spelling
of Newfoundland Time in time zone list.
v1.01 - Build 1, 30th January 2007
(1) Bug removed preventing installation
of Anno Domini with Windows Vista;
(2) During removal of Anno Domini,
users now have choice to remove the program immediately via a reboot or to remove
Anno Domini when the PC is next rebooted;
(3) Bug removed during installation
which previously could cause installation to continue before the necessary program
fonts have been installed;
(4) README.DOC file replaced with
README.RTF for better compatibility;
(5) Changes made to allow access
to Solitaire, FreeCell, Backup, Restore and Sound Volume in Windows Vista.
