I’d like to keep it simple and minimalistic. There are a few features already implemented. Just a question of finding an afternoon free to release it.

* Your city details: Latitude: -6.17 Longitude: 106.86, name: Jakarta, country: Indonesia
* Jakarta’s time zone: +7
* Your country’s calculation method: if you know it: University Of Islamice Science, Shafii

Jazakumullah for creating Minbar

Thank you brother for your help…I living in Algeria, and I found the prayer times were wrong:

the details are as follows:

(36.76 N, 3.05 E)
the accurate times can be found at this website if this would help:

http://www.islamicfinder.org/cityPrayerD.php?city=Algiers&country=algeria&month=&year=&start=0&home=&prayerService=&lang=&athan=&aversion=

Baraka allah fik…Salam

The problem will be appeared if you change latitude from 0 to -0.01, it will make a great different Ashr time.

hoping you could fix it,
Your work will be “amal jariyah”
Good luck, and thank you very much.
All the best,

Aadrean

Sorry for my impatience. But please could you fix it? or tell me how to fix it. thank you. god bless you. insha Allah i wish you a happy eid.

Salaam

first of all thank you for coming up with the program itself and making it available for us to use. God bless you son. I am from Maldives, tho currently accommodated here in Sri lanka. from where i am located the mosque (not near by) recites athan for prayers at random prayers, sometimes no fajr athan. its disappointing. specially during this ramadaan. i am happy to have this program though, the time given on the Minbar doesnt match the local time.
here are my settings

Calculation : Egyptian General Authority of Survey
City Details : Custom Settings for Sri Lanka / Colombo
Latitude : 6.66
Longitude : 79.35
City Name : Colombo (Custom Name for this city is not listed in it)
Time Zone : 5.5

The nearest Correction i got to local prayer time is by adjusting latitude and longitude ending in final result as follows

Minbar Subh: 04:46
Local Subh: 04:47

Minbar Dhuhr: 12:12
Local Dhuhr: 12:12

Minbar Asr: 15:16
Local Asr: 15:16

Minbar Maghreb: 18:19
Local Maghreb: 18:18

Minbar Isha’a: 19:29
Local Isha’a: 19:29

These are the prayer times according to 1st of September 2009.

hoping you could help me fix it.
Insha allah, you will do good, be healthy and be safe always.

tc.

Salaam

Jazak Allah Khair for the software. We have been using this in our house for last month and everyone enjoys the athan through out the house. I need to if you can add a feature that will allow users to execute some script before athan and after athan. My need is the I have MPD server running in the house which my family uses to listen to lectures and nasheed and quran but i want to be able to mute those if athan is playing. If you can implement this that great.

thanks
K

Times of Salah at my local Masjid:

Fajr 5:00-5:30 depending of solar year
Zuhr 13:00
‘Asr 16:30
Maghreb 18:00-18:30 the same issue
‘Isha 20:00

Another matter i would like to comment, the muslim date in Minbar’s calendar doesn’t working good. The “new day” in minbar it just change with the system clock, at 0:00 hours.

…Should be at the beginning of the Magreb or ‘Isha? (i dont remember, im a new muslim, he he)

By the rest, one more time my greetings to developers. It’s a very good job, and the spanish translation works fine too. Still working on this program. Thanks for all and Salaam to everyone…!

Fajr: 05:11

In first place, sorry for my bad english :-D

I want to give my sincere thanks to developers for so useful tool for GNU/linux users. Allah reward them. Ameen.

I’m using Minbar from a few months. Now, the 0.2.1 included in Debian/Lenny, 64-bit version.

As im reading in former posts, the calculation methods appears to be not reliables in near equator latitudes. Here, in tropic (im writing from Venezuela, and yes there we are many brothers and sisters ;-D), sun rises and goes down too quickly, despite the year’s month; just as should be in all the low latitude places around the world as Guyana, Suriname, Malasya, Indonesia, Singapore, etc…

All calculing methods has problems in beginning of Al-fajr and at the end of Al-’Isha. This happens in all the solar year.

The Sunrise (Shorooq), and the Sunset (prior to begin of Maghreb) works pretty good to me and the program follows the insignificant variation along the solar year. I chekced it with local weather data. Also the rest of prayer times appears to work good, all this prooved with all calculation methods included in Minbar.

My Cordinates: 10,17 (North) Latitude; -67,93 (West) Longitude
My City: (Valencia, Venezuela). Founded with that cordinates by program or library implied to do this. Works ok.

For unfounded cities, the trick is to set up manually coordinates using some weather local service, or even Google Maps.

Local Time: -4,5 GMT (Venezuela local time). setted up manually, we have not “Daylight saving”. I supose this must be a problem in other latitudes, to change hours two times at year… :-S

The most “near” calculation method to my reality is the Islamic Asociation of North America alghorythm or method.