Why Shabbat times are tricky to maintain
Candle-lighting and havdalah are computed from sunset at your exact latitude and longitude, then adjusted by your community’s custom (for example, 18 or 40 minutes before sunset). They change every week and shift across the year.
Editing these by hand invites mistakes — and a single wrong time erodes trust.
The right way: automatic, geolocated zmanim
- Set your synagogue’s coordinates once
- Choose your candle-lighting custom (minutes before sunset)
- Let the site compute and refresh times every week automatically
- Display the weekly parsha and upcoming holidays alongside
What to display on the homepage
- This week’s candle-lighting time
- Havdalah / Shabbat ends
- The weekly Torah portion (parsha)
- Upcoming holidays and their candle-lighting times