Date Details and Zmanim

The details pane brings the information for one selected date together in one place.

Open it with the Details button near the right end of the toolbar. It shows the civil and Hebrew dates, location and zmanim shita, personal events, holidays, the weekly Torah portion, and the day’s zmanim. The pane scrolls when the list is longer than the window.

Each of your events shows its icon and type — for example “Itamar · Birthday” — and its description, if it has one, on a line below. Click an event for its actions: go to its dates, edit, or delete.

Candle-lighting times appear in orange, and the end of Shabbat or Yom Tov in teal. On Shabbat and Yom Tov, Tzeit Hakochavim — the halachic end of the day — appears together with Tzeit Shabbat or Tzeit Chag, the end of Shabbat or the festival, which is always a little later. On Erev Pesach, the last times to eat and destroy chametz appear after the regular zmanim with visual separation. A minor fast’s beginning and ending times receive similar treatment when both apply on the selected day.

A Yom Tov day that falls on Friday runs straight into Shabbat, so it has no end of its own: that evening shows the ordinary candle lighting for Shabbat, and no Tzeit Chag.

Rabbeinu Tam as well

Where a community has followers of both times, Location Settings can also show the end of Shabbat or Yom Tov according to Rabbeinu Tam: a second row, such as Tzeit Shabbat (Rabbeinu Tam), right after the regular one. It is 72 minutes after sunset in winter and 72 proportional minutes in summer — always the later of the two. A custom shita can choose a different Rabbeinu Tam time with its own Also show setting (see Custom Zmanim Shitot).

Rounding

Times are shown to the minute and rounded l’chumra: a time from which something becomes permitted is rounded later, and a deadline earlier — so a printed minute is never too early to begin or too late to finish.

Choosing a zmanim shita

In Location Settings, choose the overall shita followed for that location. Kaluach provides nine built-in shitot: Eretz Yisrael and Diaspora by the GRA and by the Magen Avraham, Chabad, and several named-authority shitot. You may also choose a custom shita, or None (show every shita) to compare the available shitot side by side.

Each saved location keeps its own shita. The Zmanim section of this guide explains what the shitot mean and why their times differ.