🕰Zmanim — the times of the day, where you actually are

Zmanim are the numbers people actually run their day by, and they are the numbers most often taken from whatever app happened to be on the phone. That is a strange amount of trust to place in a small piece of software, and Lechem tries to be worth it by being explicit rather than by being confident.

The times are calculated for where you are, for today, and they are shown as a day rather than as a table: what has already passed, what is next, how long you have. On an ordinary weekday that is the whole use of it — you want to know whether you have twenty minutes or two.

Where a zman depends on which opinion you hold — and several of the important ones do, sometimes by a long stretch of minutes — Lechem shows the opinions and names them. It does not average them into a single reassuring number. If your practice follows a particular position, you should be able to see that position, not a compromise nobody holds.

The calculation runs on the device, so the times are there with no signal. If Lechem does not know where you are, it says so and asks, rather than quietly using somewhere else and handing you a time that is wrong by eleven minutes.

And it stays a helper. A zman on a screen is a calculation, not a ruling. For anything that turns on it, ask your Rav.