What is Choghadiya?
The Choghadiya system is a traditional Indian time-keeping system, where days start from sunrise to sunset and nights start
at sunset and end on the next sunrise.
Both day and night are divided into 8 "hours" that are called Choghadiya, and the hour and weekday determines a
"Murat", which can be considered good or bad.
Here's another site that has more details on the system.
This page helps coordinate religious ceremonies across timezones, but note that:
- Sunrise and sunset times can vary within a timezone -- even within similar latitudes (compare Tokyo and Seoul, for example).
- Since the "solar day" starts at sunrise, some suggested times are past midnight. The times from midnight to the next sunrise are considered as being in the previous day (by this calculator, no idea what Hinduism wants).
- This calculator assumes that the next sunrise is "close enough" to the previous one, so doesn't account for its actual drift. (For Diwali calculations in the Northern hemisphere, this means that the night murats are slightly longer than they should be.)