CatchClock Editorial — Who Publishes These Times

CatchClock Editorial is the byline on every page of this site. It is an organization rather than a person, and that is a deliberate choice: the times published here are produced by code and verified against independent references, so the byline names the group that owns the code and the checks — not a face invented to satisfy a ranking signal.

Why this byline is an organization, not a person

A named author with a verifiable track record is the stronger E-E-A-T signal, and we do not have one. Inventing an angling biography would be the easiest paragraph on this page to write and the only one on it that nobody could check. What can be checked is the method, and it is written out in full on how we calculate bite times: the window formula, the astronomical model behind it, the references we compare against, and the cases where the whole approach stops being useful.

What is verified before a page goes live

Every published time is computed at build time with astronomy-engine 2.1.19 from the city’s own coordinates and IANA time zone. Sunrise, sunset, civil twilight, moonrise and moonset are cross-checked against a second, independent implementation across 39 cities and 10 days; the measured agreement is within 3 seconds against a 60-second threshold. Lunar culminations — the anchor of every major period — agree with an independent meridian search to within 1.1 seconds across 760 events (measured 2026-08-10).

Those checks run as tests before the site is built, and a failed check fails the build. That is the whole guarantee: not that a person read the page, but that no page ships with a number the engine could not reproduce. What the site deliberately does not publish — regulations, size limits and other people’s private spots — is listed on the about page.

Pages published under this byline

Every page below carries the same byline and the same guarantee: the numbers on it were produced by the build, not typed by hand.