Prepare your details
What Information Do You Need for a Bazi Reading?
Direct answer
Prepare your birth date, your local clock time of birth if known, and your birthplace. Mark the time as unknown instead of guessing. Some services also ask for optional gender and the question you want to explore because those fields can affect a traditional method or the focus of the interpretation. Better input improves calculation consistency; it does not make fortune claims scientifically accurate.
1. Birth date
Use the date on the most reliable record available and confirm that the service expects the Gregorian date. Do not manually convert to a lunar date unless the product explicitly asks.
Check dates around midnight carefully. A one-day error changes the day pillar and may change the later interpretation.
2. Local birth time
Use the local clock time recorded at the birthplace. If the time is uncertain, record that uncertainty. “Around 6 p.m.” and “unknown” are different inputs.
Do not invent a time to make the form pass. A precise-looking chart based on a guessed time is less honest than a limited reading with the uncertainty shown.
3. Birthplace and time zone
Provide city and country. The recorded clock time belongs to a location and time zone, and daylight-saving rules or historical changes can affect conversion.
How Bazi AI handles this now: the form suggests a human-readable IANA time zone from the birth city and country, requires you to confirm it, and rejects ambiguous abbreviations such as EST or CST. New York and Reykjavik are handled as their own local zones instead of being fixed to Shanghai.
The service uses the confirmed local civil date and clock time. It does not claim longitude-based true solar time, historical place-name resolution, or astronomical-grade geographic correction.
4. Optional gender, concern, and question
Some traditional timing methods use gender in direction rules. Bazi AI makes the field optional: only an explicit female or male selection enables gender-dependent timing. Non-binary, other, or unspecified selections do not silently default to male.
Your concern and question do not change the calculated birth chart; they guide which parts of the written interpretation receive attention. Keep questions reflective and specific, and do not use the service to replace medical, legal, financial, or other qualified advice.
Before you submit
- Confirm the birth date from the best available record.
- Copy the local clock time, or clearly mark it unknown.
- Enter birthplace as city and country.
- Confirm the suggested time zone; do not use an ambiguous abbreviation.
- Write down uncertainty instead of hiding it.
- Review the privacy, retention, deletion, and AI-processing disclosures.
- Treat the reading as cultural reflection, not a factual forecast.
Frequently asked questions
What if I only know a two-hour range?
Record the range or mark the exact time unknown. Do not choose the more appealing result and call it confirmed.
What if my birth certificate and family memory disagree?
Keep both sources and note the uncertainty. Interpretations that depend on the disputed time should remain limited.
Does birthplace change the calendar date?
It can affect how the recorded local time is interpreted, especially near midnight or during daylight-saving transitions. Confirm the correct local time zone.
Why is gender requested?
Some traditional timing conventions use it. The field is optional here, and non-binary or unspecified values do not default to male.