How to Use the Enoch Calendar

The calendar opens on the current year, at the top of the page. It does not jump to today by itself — press Today in the month header and it will. That is the one thing worth knowing before anything else.

Nothing else needs setting up. You can use it from there and never read another word of this. But a good deal of it is not obvious at a glance — and one part in particular looks like decoration when it is actually the most powerful control on the screen. This guide goes through the whole thing, in the order you meet it.

Four regions, stacked. Knowing their names makes the rest of this guide easy to follow.

1   The timelines

The band of coloured bars at the top. Four rows: three that fit all seven thousand years on screen at once, and a fourth, finer one below them that scrolls. They are a navigation control, not a picture — § 2.

2   The tab row

Four tabs directly beneath: two calendar views, plus Upcoming and View All Events — § 3.

3   The month grid

The month itself, with its own header and its own navigation bar underneath — § 4.

4   The Info Panel

Not visible until you click a day. Where most of the calendar's depth lives — § 5.

Start here, because this is the part most people admire and then scroll straight past.

Every bar is a button. Click any segment of any band and the calendar travels there. Click Age of Torah and you land in it. Click Week 3 and you are in Week 3. This is the fastest way to cross thousands of years, and far quicker than pressing Next Year several hundred times.

The red line is you

A thin red line sits across each band. It marks where the year you are currently viewing falls — and it is drawn in its true position, not snapped to the nearest edge. Change the year and all the lines slide together.

So the bands answer two questions at once: where you are, and where everything else sits relative to you.

Hovering an age shows its exact span. Clicking moves you in hundred-year steps, so where you click within an age decides where you land. For finer than that, use the third band — it lands on the exact year.

Bands 2 and 3 — Enoch's Ten-Week Seventy-Day Timeline

This is the Apocalypse of Weeks drawn to scale. Enoch divides all of history into ten weeks, and the arithmetic is clean:

So the upper strip is the ten weeks of seven hundred years each, and the lower strip is the seven days — of one hundred years each — inside the week you are currently in. The lower strip is not a second copy of history. It is a magnifying glass held over one week of it.

The article on the Apocalypse of Weeks walks through what Enoch says happens in each of the ten — Enoch's own birth in the first, the Flood in the second, Abraham in the third, the Law in the fourth, and on to the end.

Band 4 — the Shemitah-Jubilee Timeline

This one is built differently from the three above it. They compress all seven thousand years into the width of your screen. This one is drawn at roughly three pixels per year — some twenty-one thousand pixels end to end — so only a slice of it fits at a time, and it scrolls sideways. It positions itself on the year you are viewing, and moves with you as you travel.

That extra room is what lets it show the detail. Every seventh year is a Shemitah, marked S; every fiftieth is a Jubilee, marked J and drawn taller. Along the bottom run the year labels, in AM and AD together, and a red marker labelled Today sits at the present year.

Move the mouse along it and a tooltip follows the cursor, naming the year you are pointing at — the AM year, the Gregorian year beside it, and which Enoch week and day it belongs to. Slide across the band and you can read history off it year by year without clicking anything.

Click, and you go to that exact year. Not the nearest century, not the middle of a segment — the year under the cursor. This is the band to use when you know where you are going.

At this resolution you can also see something the other bands are too coarse to show: how the sevens stack up, and how the Jubilee falls.

Beneath the timelines sit four tabs. The first two are the same year seen two ways; the second two are lists.

Gregorian + Enoch Calendar

The dual view. Each cell carries both dates — the Gregorian date you already think in, and the Enoch date beside it. This is the one to use while you are still building the habit, because every day is labelled in both systems at once.

Enoch Calendar

The pure view. Twelve months of thirty days, four added Tekufah days, nothing but the Enoch reckoning on screen. The shape of the year is far easier to see here: four quarters of ninety-one days, each exactly thirteen weeks, each starting on the same weekday.

Upcoming

What is coming next — feasts, observances and dated events, in the order they arrive, each with a Take me there button. The tab to check when the question is simply "what is next?"

View All Events

Every event in the calendar, searchable — § 9.

Switching between the two calendar views recalculates nothing. It is the same year seen two ways, so events, feasts and highlights all stay exactly where they are.

The month card names itself in the header — the month number, its name, and the AM year, as in 1st Month · Nisan, 5951 AM. Two buttons sit at the right.

Today

Jumps to today's date and highlights the cell. This is what you press on opening, since the calendar loads the current year without scrolling to the current day — and it is also how you come back from any year you have wandered into. If you leave the calendar open across midnight, the highlight moves to the new day on its own.

↑

Scrolls back to the top of the page, where the timelines are. It is the same kind of button as Today beside it, just narrower.

The month jump bar — hidden until you ask

A whole year is on the page at once, as a stack of month cards you scroll through. Rather than scrolling, click the month header itself and a strip of all twelve months slides out beneath it:

Click any name and the calendar scrolls to that month, and the strip tucks itself away again. Opening it on one card opens it on all of them, so it is there wherever you stop.

Two months are picked out for you: the card's own month is shaded, and today's month is written in teal — so even deep in another year, you can see at a glance where the present sits.

Inside a day cell

• The day number.
• A small moon phase in the corner, showing what the moon looks like that night. The Enoch Calendar keeps time by the sun, so its months are fixed at thirty days and pay the moon no attention. The icon puts the moon back on the page, so you can see at a glance where it stands on any date.
• Any feast, observance or event falling that day. Feast days carry a tinted background.

Click anywhere in the cell to open the Info Panel.

The bar underneath

Every month card has its own navigation bar along the bottom, with ◀ Prev Year at one end and Next Year ▶ at the other. These keep you in the same month and move the year — press Prev Year on Nisan and you are looking at Nisan a year earlier.

That makes them the way to compare a month with itself across years.

The first and last months of the year get a third button in the middle, and it is the one that saves the most time — it carries you across the year boundary and into the right month in a single press, rather than changing year and then scrolling.

▲ Prev Year — Last Month

On the first month. Goes back a year and lands on its twelfth month — the month immediately before the one you are looking at.

▼ Next Year — First Month

On the twelfth month. Goes forward a year and lands on its first month — the month immediately after.

So the middle button always continues in the direction you were already reading, stepping over the year boundary as if it were not there. The months in between have no middle button, because they have no boundary to cross.

At the very beginning of the calendar the backward one is greyed out, since there is no earlier year to go to.

The equinox reading, below the calendar

Further down, past the grid, sits a panel headed 🌸 Spring Equinox — 7,000 Year History (JPL DE441). Click it and it opens out, showing how far the astronomical equinox sat from noon in the year you are viewing, to the second.

Beside that heading is a 📊 Chart button, and it opens the whole picture: the drift plotted across all seven thousand years. This is the evidence behind the leap week — you can watch the equinox pull away from its place and be hauled back, over and over, without ever escaping the window.

Click any day to open it. Not every section appears on every day — a day shows only what is true of it.

Set a location first

Everything to do with the sun and moon needs to know where you are standing. Until you tell it, that part of the panel reads Enter your coordinates above, or click 📍 General Location and nothing is drawn — no sunrise, no sky charts, no hourly tables.

It takes one click, and it only has to be done once. See § 6.

The hour-by-hour tables

Once a location is set, a toggle appears for the hour-by-hour tables covering the Sun, Moon and planets. These start collapsed because the tables are long. Open them once and the calendar remembers for next time.

The sky charts

Two views draw the sky rather than tabulate it. Horizon View shows the arc each body travels across the day; Sky Now shows where everything stands at this moment. Hovering either reads out altitude and azimuth for that point.

Sunrise and sunset depend on where you stand, so the calendar has to be told. Nothing here is sent anywhere — every figure is computed in your own browser.

Filling in the coordinates

The quickest way is 📍 General Location, in the Coordinates row. It estimates where you are from your network connection — city-level rather than exact, which is ample for sunrise and sunset.

You can also type coordinates in by hand, into a latitude field and a longitude field. Each one accepts decimals or degrees-minutes-seconds, so Jerusalem can be entered either way:

South of the equator and west of Greenwich take S and W, or a minus sign on the decimal.

Choosing which sky to read

With coordinates in place, four buttons decide whose sky the panel describes.

My Location

Your own coordinates, in your own time zone. The default, and the one you want for watching the sky yourself.

Jerusalem

The Temple Mount, at 31.7781° N, 35.2359° E. The reference point for reading the calendar as it was kept.

UTC+2

The 30° E meridian, which the calendar treats as its anchor. This is the line the leap-week decision is measured against, so it is the zone to pick when you want to see what the calendar itself is doing rather than what your own sky is doing.

UTC (0°,0°)

The plain astronomical reference, with no local adjustment at all.

The +1 and −1 badges

Jerusalem is ahead of most of the world, and while you are still on today it may already be tomorrow there. The calendar says so plainly: a small pill appears on the zone button reading +1 when that zone has already rolled into tomorrow, or −1 when it is still on yesterday.

The badge compares that zone's date with your own, so it is telling you where that zone's today actually is on the grid.

The badges appear on Jerusalem, UTC+2 and UTC, and only while you are looking at your own today — on any other date they are hidden, since a +1 against a date centuries ago would mean nothing. My Location never carries one: it is your own zone, so it can never disagree with your own clock.

The calendar does not arrive empty. Nearly three hundred events are already in it — the Flood dates, the Exodus, Daniel's prophecy, the Passion week — each with a written account of what happened and why it sits on that date. Most of what follows, you can watch working on those before you enter anything of your own.

Adding your own is still worth knowing, if only to try the settings out. Three steps:

1. Click the day you want.
2. In the Info Panel, click the header to unfold the top section (§ 5).
3. Click + Add Event for This Day.
4. Click ✏️ Add / Edit an Event to unfold the form itself.

The date arrives already filled in. That last header stays closed each time you open the panel, so it is always one click to reveal the form — except when you open an existing event to edit it, where it unfolds for you.

It is longer than it first appears. Scroll it to the bottom at least once, because the most capable parts — linked events and the reckonings in § 8 — are the last thing in it.

The choice that matters most

An event is anchored to either a Gregorian date or an AM date, and Calendar Type decides which. It offers Gregorian and Enoch (AM), and starts on Enoch. This is not a display preference — it determines what the event does in every later year:

• Anchored to a Gregorian date, a yearly event returns on that civil date, and drifts across the Enoch year — because 364 and 365 are not the same number.
• Anchored to an AM date, it returns on that Enoch date, on the same weekday, permanently — and moves against the civil calendar instead.

For a birthday you probably want Gregorian. For anything you are tracking against the feasts, you want AM.

The rest of the form

Start and End

The date fields come in two columns, so an event can cover a span of days rather than a single one.

Repeat

Every day, week, two weeks, month or year, or a custom interval you set. A repeat follows whichever anchor you chose above.

Counting days from an event

This is the one to know about. Under Track time since event date, switch on Enable and then After event for with a number of days. The calendar then writes a numbered chip onto every day in that stretch — D1, D2, D3, straight across the grid, carrying the event's name with it.

So to see where forty days from an event lands, set it to forty and read the grid. The days are numbered for you, across month boundaries and into the next year if the count runs that far. Anything counted in days from a fixed starting point — forty days, the fifty days to Pentecost, the seven days of a feast — can be laid out this way and simply looked at.

Before event for does the same in the other direction, but counts down instead: each day reads so many days until, so you can see an approach as well as a span.

This is the part that does something no wall calendar can. Link two events and the calendar measures the span between them — and expresses it in whichever reckoning you ask for.

The links are already there

More than a hundred of the built-in events are already linked to one another. You do not have to build anything to see this working — open the Flood, or Daniel's prophecy, or the Passion week, and the spans to the events they are tied to are sitting there, already measured.

This is the best hour you can spend in the calendar, and it needs nothing from you but clicking.

Making a link of your own

If you do want to link two events yourself, it happens near the bottom of the same Add Event form from § 7, under the heading Linked Events (Optional). Every setting below is in that block.

1. Open View All Events and find the event you want to link to.
2. Click 🔗 Copy on it. That copies its link text.
3. Open the other event for editing and paste into the Linked Events search box.
4. Click the result to select it. Selections survive further searching, so you can link several events in one pass.

The search box has two modes: one matches an exact sequence of words, the other matches the words in any order. Use the exact one when you know the title, the loose one when you only remember part of it.

Day 1 or Day 0

One checkbox — Count first day as Day 1 — decides whether the first day of a span is counted. Unchecked, the count starts at zero.

Prophetic Reckoning

Switch this on and the span is also given in 360-day prophetic years, where one week stands for seven years. This is the reckoning behind Daniel's seventy weeks and the 1260 days of Revelation; the arithmetic is set out in the article on the 360-day prophetic year.

Generations

Switch this on and the span is also given in fifty-year generations.

Reading the result

Each linked event carries a badge showing which way it lies in time — AFTER ↓ for later, ↑ BEFORE for earlier. The badge sits at the end of that event's date line; Take me there, on the row above, jumps to its day.

Because a link runs both ways, that event is listed on this side too — so to go back, press its own Take me there.

View All Events lists every event in the calendar, the built-in ones included, with the same two search modes: exact sequence, or words in any order. Take me there on any result does considerably more than open a date. It travels to that year — which may be thousands of years from where you are standing — switches to the Enoch view if the event is anchored to an AM date, so the whole year renders properly; moves every timeline marker to match; scrolls the exact day into view; and flashes the cell for a moment so you can see which one it landed on.

The list has its own controls for long collections: arrows that scroll to the next and previous event, and a toggle that hides the header area to give the list more room.

The Events Timeline

Above the list sits an Events Timeline with every event plotted on it across the whole seven thousand years. Events that span days are drawn as bars, single dates as marks, and each is given its own colour. Where events overlap they are stacked into rows rather than hidden behind one another, so a crowded period still shows everything in it.

Hover a mark and it names the event. If that event runs over a span, a second line gives its length — in days, months or years, whichever fits. So you can read along the timeline and identify what you are looking at without opening anything.

Click it and the list below collapses to just that event. Click empty track and the list returns to normal. Between the two, it is the fastest way to reach one event out of hundreds: find it by eye, confirm it by hovering, then click.

Zooming in

At 1× the whole span is on screen, which puts millennia in a few hundred pixels. Three ways to get closer:

• The scroll wheel, which zooms around wherever the cursor is, so the period under your pointer stays put.
• The strips above and below the track — ▲ zoom in and ▼ zoom out.
• Dragging the timeline sideways to pan once you are in far enough that it no longer all fits.

The current level is shown beside the label, and Reset returns to 1×. It will go a very long way in — far enough to separate events a single day apart.

The timeline lives in the header area, so the toggle that hides the header to give the list more room hides the timeline with it.

Today in History

A pinned event appears in the Info Panel of every day sharing its Enoch day and month — every year, past and future. Around eighty of the built-in events are pinned already, so this is working from the moment you open the calendar.

It is what turns the calendar into something you can ask questions of. Walk through any year and the panel tells you what else has ever fallen on the day you are looking at. Any event can be pinned or unpinned, your own included.

For the calendar itself — where it comes from, and why it is built this way — see the Library.