1. Click the New Button or pull down the File Menu to ÒNewÓ. These are the exact same thing
Notice the Command or Control and letter N is the same thing as well. In other words, on the PC tap CNTRL-N and on the Mac tap 1-N to begin entering a new chart.
2. The cursor, which is the blinking insertion bar, should now appear in the field for entering the first name of the person on the chart entry window- type in their first name:
3. Now hit tab or return to move to the next field, which is for last name, and type in their last name:
4. Now enter the birth date. Note that on the Prefs..Other window, you can specify American or European date format as the program-wide standard.
You can enter the date in a number of ways. If it beeps when you hit tab or return, then you used a format which doesnÕt work. Do what you like and see if it works. It will always, however, convert what you enter to look like this (or itÕs European equiv.)
5. Mark whether the chart is for a male or female:
This only affects the readings and the compatibility feature. There are a few readings which are for woman only.
6. Enter the time of the birth or event:
The time field allows for hours, minutes and seconds and is stored in 24-hour Òmilitary timeÓ. You can however enter the time using AM and PM after the time and it will be converted automatically. For example, entering this:
93
when you tab or return out of this field.
Please experiment a little until you get used to what these fields can take. For example, I will feel pain if you struggle to enter the colons (:) in-between numbers because it WILL insert them for you when you tab. I personally just enter times like this:
0822 or 1523
and it converts them for me to: 08:22:00 and 15:23:00
Why struggle when something will be done for you easily and automatically. Use the 10-key number pad on the right side of your keyboard. Precede the AM single digit hours of 1 AM to 9 AM with a zero like this:
01, 02, 09, etc.
so that it knows it is these AM hours. Then it will know where to put the colon. Get used to this technique- itÕs worth it in the long run!
7. Skip over this next field, the ÒDSTÓ field. The Atlas will enter it for you. It is the Daylight Saving or War Time hour field. This is highly important and NOT to be ÒguessedÓ. This information was or will be inserted for you when you located/find the city because the internal ACS Atlas knows this data and will enter it for you. So just leave it zero and tab onwards. Later, if you really know what youÕre doing, and wish to override the ACS Auto-inserted setting, you can do so. For example, if ACS inserts a 1 indicating daylight saving time was on, but you want it off, or standad time, then you can wipe out the 1 and put in the zero JUST BEFORE SAVING.
DST stands for ÒDaylight Saving TimeÓ, or itÕs equivalent in other countries. WT stands for War Time- something common in many countries in the early forties during W.W.II. This field usually has a zero in it as shown above. This means NO DST or WT was is effect. If DST was in effect, normally a 1 to indicate that there was a one-hour shift AHEAD in local time to adjust for Summer or whatever the case may have been, will be inserted for you after you TAB OUT OF THE
COUNTRY FIELD which is when the atlas is accessed and all such fields auto-filled in.
For example, when I was born, Daylight Saving Time was in effect because it was May of 1960 in California, which was using DST during those years. So, my birth certificate says I was born at 4:42 AM, but in actuality it was 3:42 because DST MEANS that everyone had set their clocks AHEAD one hour some months earlier that year. So, to enter my chart, you enter my birth time as 4:42 and after tabbing out of the Country field, a 1 is inserted in this DST field.
8. Enter the City. Simply type in the city name. Do not include the state or country- they have their own fields.
Country and State where applicable. They have their own time tables going back through history and forward into the future. So, after you enter the birth data, time, City, State and Country, a search of the atlas file is performed, and if a city is found, the time tables for it are accessed for the date and time you entered. If an Òexact matchÓ city is NOT found, then you are given a list of cities that start with what you typed as the city name. So, typing the first portion of the city name is fine. 9. Enter the State.
This field is optional as it does not always apply. It is intended primarily for use with the United States and Canada currently (as of version 2.2). All other Countries, even if they have ÒStatesÓ, probably donÕt have them in this field properly yet.
10. Enter the Country.
This is a special field in that, when you tab out of it, the Atlas Feature of Goravani Jyotish is going to be invoked. In both cases, the names you typed into the City, State and Country fields will be passed on to the atlasÕs so that they can do a lookup for you.