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Location

The city every sunrise, tithi and rahu kaal on this surface is computed for. It is guessed from your time zone until you choose one, and the guess is labelled as a guess rather than shown as a fact — sunrise moves about four minutes for every degree of longitude and a time zone can be forty degrees wide.

Clock

How every time on every page here is written. 24 Plus is the panchang convention: a panchang day runs sunrise to sunrise, so a period that ends at 01:12 the next morning ends inside today, and counting on to 25:12 says that where 01:12 says the opposite.

Sections on the daily panchang

Which cards appear on the front page. What is running right now and the method line at the foot are not on this list and will not be: the first is the answer, and a convention you can switch off is not a convention anyone declared.

Chart style

Which way the kundli is drawn. Both are correct and the split is regional: North Indian fixes the houses to the paper and rotates the signs, South Indian fixes the signs and rotates the houses. Every region of both prints both numbers, because they look identical and mean opposite things.

Palette

Four seats, shared with every other site in this network. Until now the only way to reach them was the button in the header, which cycles — this shows all four and picks one. With nothing chosen, the first visit follows whatever your device is set to; once you choose, the choice is yours and the operating system does not reach in and undo it at sunset.

Language

Two languages are live: English at the plain address, and Hindi under /hi/. The control is the button next to the palette one at the top of every page — it shows the language you are reading in, written in that language's own script, because a chooser written in English is one only the people who do not need it can use. It is offered once on a first visit and then never asks again, and choosing does not move you to a different site: it is the same pages at a different address.

Hindi is live and it is not finished. The chrome, the numbers and the tables are translated; much of the long prose — the paragraphs explaining how a window is computed and why two cities disagree about the same date — is still English, and a page that is half translated shows you the English rather than hiding the section. That is the better of the two failures. Where something reads wrongly, Improve this page at the foot of any translated page makes every translated block tappable, and the one you tap carries its own address: no name, no email, no account, just the sentence and what it should have said.

Pass it on

There is no account here and nothing to sign up for, so the only way anyone else finds this is somebody telling them. On a phone this opens your own share sheet; on a desktop it copies the link.

What this browser is holding

Everything below lives in this browser's own storage on this device. None of it has been sent anywhere, none of it can be — there is no account on this surface and no request that carries any of it — and clearing your site data removes all of it whether or not you use the buttons here.