Tonight I did a study of the duration of time between the phases of the moon. As I said before, it is too erratic to set your Sabbath accordingly. The phase of the moon at most tells you the Shabbath is in the vicinity. A reminder to remember your Shabbath. It varies from 6 days 14 hours to 8 days 5 hours! To set your Shabbat accordingly, it must be constant 7 days between phases. If you are going to work according to the phases, you are going to go wrong and some weeks work 5 days, others 6 days, and others 7 days. And I’m not even talking about the mistakes you can make in judging the phase of the moon by eye. The only reliable method is to work from New Moon and count your days from there.

Regarding the data you see. I worked on Jerusalem’s data, otherwise, there will be people who say I can’t work on my country’s data. They do not understand that it is the new moon(conjunction), first quarter, full moon, and third quarter at the same time all over the Earth. All that makes it look different is your time zone. If you consistently take the exact location’s data, the differences are precisely the same across the globe. There is another difference that comes in, and that is the time the moon rises and the sun sets in your location. But that can not cause a difference of more than 1 and a half days, which is the case.

And incidentally, the longest AND shortest difference is both from the first quarter to the full moon. So do not try and tell people it is constant in the first half of the month and constant in the second half of the month. It just ain’t true!