Local Sidereal Time

I love this app. I use it every day. It’s a shame that the alarm feature stopped working a few years ago. But since sidereal time only changes four-minutes a day, it’s easy to kind of remember. I would happily pay the $4.99 again to get the alarms working.

First off, this app is a great idea. I love the ability to track and plan around optimum sidereal times. I just wish the alarm feature would work. I wake up to find the notification in there on my screen, but no noise or notification to my watch, even though I’ve allowed them to come through my sleep focus settings. Also, it would be great if the “Contact Us” function didn’t require me to setup the canned email client on my iPhone in order to email the developer. I don’t want to do that and since there was no way to get the email address that I could find, I’m forced to leave a review in the hope that the developer reads my concerns here. It might sound like I’m unhappy with this app. Far from it. These are just areas of improvement I see. Thank you!

Since the current (spring/summer) clock time in most of the US is fake daylight savings time, do we need to add an hour to the app’s stated local sidereal time when we are in fake DST? Then use the stated LST time as true sidereal time when we are returned to standard time in fall/winter? The app doesn’t automatically correct for daylight savings time according to our individual location?