Prayer Times PC is a software that let's you get accurate prayer timings (salat/namaz timings), athan (azaan, azan) and qibla direction now on linux! Timings available for thousands of cities world wide. Compatible with all flavours of linux/unix.
Here are some key features of "Prayer Times PC":
Prayer Timings
· Take the guess work out of calculating prayer times - make your computer benefit you by calculating accurate prayer timings for you. Thousands of cities available at your finger tips. For more cities and features, check out Prayer Times PC Pro.
Favourite Cities
· Set and retrieve favourite cities with ease. If you travel a lot with your laptop, you might want to save more cities using Prayer Times PC Pro!
Hijri Date Adjustments
· Prayer Times allows you to adjust the hijri calendar by subtracting or adding days in order to reflect your current date.
Add Custom Cities
· Can't find your city in our database? No problem - enter details of your city and Prayer Times will remember them for you. You can save three custom added cities in Prayer Times (available in Prayer Times PC Pro!)
Five Calculation Methods
· Prayer Times offers five famous prayer times calculation methods so that you may be able to switch between them based on your personal preference and locality.
Using custom prayer calculation method
· If the built in calculations aren't good enough for you, you can set custom Fajr and Isha angles to compute prayer times (in Prayer Times PC Pro only)
Asr calculation methods
· Prayer Times has both standard (Imam Shafi', Hanbali, Maliki) as well as Hanafi method.
Islamic Events
· Use the Islamic Events of the Year. feature to find out when's what! It provides dates of important Islamic events/festivals both in Hijri and Gregorian for the current year. Only available in Prayer Times PC Pro.
Qibla Direction
· Did you know that magnetic compasses are incorrect and cannot be trusted for getting the direction of Kabah? This is because the magnetic field changes and does not point to the TRUE North. Prayer Times for mobiles gives you an accurate direction of the Qibla based on True North as well as the relative direction from the current position of the Sun in the sky (direction from Sun is in Prayer Times PCPro only).Prayer Times PC Pro has its own dedicated screen for Qibla direction (from North and the relative position from the Sun), distance to kaabah etc.
Adjust individual prayer times
· You can adjust prayer times individually by adding/subtracting minutes to individual prayer times (in Prayer Times PC Pro only)
Requirements:
· Java VM 1.4+ installed
Limitations:
· 8000 cities available in free version
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