Corrections

If a time on this site looks wrong, please tell us. A calculated timetable can be wrong for ordinary, checkable reasons — the coordinates behind a location, a timezone boundary, a date near a clock change — and a report is the fastest way for us to find out.

This page explains what to send, and exactly what does and does not happen to a published time while a report is being looked at.

How to report a problem

There is no submission form on the site yet, so a report is made by email: info@allprayertime.uk. We would rather tell you that than put up a form that does not go anywhere.

To be able to act on a report, we need enough of it to reproduce what you saw:

• The location and the date the time was shown for.
• Which prayer it was — and, for Asr, whether you mean Standard (Mithl 1) or Hanafi (Mithl 2), because the site publishes both.
• The time we showed, and the time you expected.
• Where your expected time comes from — a mosque timetable, a printed calendar, another site. A source we can look at is worth far more than a time on its own.

We cannot promise a response time. The site is run in spare time, and a report that needs checking against an outside source can take a while. Nothing here is a service commitment.

What happens to a report

A report does not change anything on the site by itself. It becomes a proposed correction, and a proposed correction is reviewed before it can affect a single published time. Review has three possible outcomes: it is approved, rejected, or withdrawn.

• Only an approved correction changes a published time. While a correction is merely proposed, every page on the site keeps showing the originally calculated time.
• A rejected or withdrawn correction never reaches a public page at all.
• The person who proposes a correction cannot be the one who approves it. Where the site owner overrides that, the override itself is recorded as an override.
• Every step — proposing, approving, rejecting, withdrawing — is written to an internal audit record, with who did it and when.

A correction never rewrites the original time

This is the part that matters most, and it is a deliberate design decision rather than a convention. The generated prayer-time record is never edited and never deleted. The value our engine produced stays exactly as it was produced, for good.

An approved correction is stored separately, as its own record, and applied over the top when a page is built. So two things remain true at the same time: you see the corrected time, and the original calculated time is still there to be examined. If the original were overwritten, there would be no way to tell afterwards whether a time had ever been changed, or what it had been changed from.

A correction states the published time directly, as hours and minutes. It is not re-rounded and not re-derived, so an approved correction appears exactly as it was approved.

Changing a correction, and keeping the record

An approved correction cannot be edited either. If a corrected time later turns out to need changing, a new correction supersedes the earlier one, and the earlier one stays in place as part of the record. Nothing in the chain is removed, so the history of a time is always readable from beginning to end.

The same principle applies when we find a problem ourselves rather than through a report. This page is also where we record any time that was published and later changed.

When a difference is not an error

Not every disagreement is a mistake on our side. Different calculation methods legitimately produce different times, and your mosque may use a different twilight angle, a different Asr convention, or a different rule for the long UK summer nights. Two timetables can differ by several minutes with neither containing an error. The methodology page sets out exactly which choices we made.

There is also a difference between one wrong time and a whole location looking wrong. If every date at a location disagrees with the local timetable by a similar amount, that is a question about method, not a run of individual corrections — and we deliberately do not paper over a methodology disagreement by correcting date after date. Please still report it; it is just handled differently.

For congregational prayer, follow your local mosque. Its jama'ah times are set locally and are not something this site can calculate.