What to check after an import
- Charts sitting at exactly 12:00. Many programs write noon when the birth time is unknown, and most files say nothing to mark it. Arcus imports them as timed charts, unless the file carries a Rodden rating of X or XX. Only you know which of the rest to mark as time unknown.
- Two-digit years. A file that writes 1/1/34 has not said which century, and Arcus flags the chart in the list rather than deciding quietly.
- Which comes first, day or month. Arcus works this out from the whole column when the dates settle it, and gives you a control when they do not.
- The direction of a time zone. A zone written as 5 for New York means five hours west in the astrological convention and five hours east in the computing one. A file that writes 5W or 5E settles it. A bare number is read the computing way, and there is a control to flip it.
- Charts marked as needing a place. A row with no coordinates and no time zone has no clock to cast its birth time on, so it is held out of the import. Look the places up at the review step and it then it will go through.
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