Does anyone know if there is some significance to it being calculated on Tuesday? Since Shabbat is from Friday to Saturday I would have picked Sunday or Monday.
"In Judaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in Bereshit (parashah), known in the Christian tradition as the first chapters of Genesis, the paragraph about this day contains the phrase "it was good" twice."
Assuming everyone else don't work on the Shabbat, there should be nothing new to calculate on Sunday, compared to Thursday. You can't use the site on Friday to Saturday yourself, because Shabbat, so indexing on Thursday perhaps also doesn't make sense, because no one will see it before Saturday. Tuesday is sort of in between... It's weird, why not do the calculating all other days than Friday and Saturday?
> why not do the calculating all other days than Friday and Saturday?
Note that assuming UTC reference point you need to bleed into sunday: Kiribati is on UTC+14, and you need to wait until some time after sunset (stars should be visible).
Though that makes me wonder how shabbat works in northerly latitude, how does shabbat work within the arctic circle?
Been there, done that. The commonly accepted ruling is to take the time that the sun is at its lowest point as simultaneous sunset/nightfall/midnight/dawn/sunrise (each of which has its own significance in Jewish law). So shabbat is from around midnight Friday to midnight Saturday.
It also means one can pray the afternoon, evening, and morning prayers one after the other.
yes, basically doing things from wed on that you know will have issues on the sabbath is problematic.
i.e. there's a concept that if one is going to get on a boat that is going to be sailing over the sabbath, one should get on sunday-tuesday. not wed-friday (saturday would obviously be an issue).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday