- Born
- 29 August 1958, 7:33 PM
- Clock
- Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)
- Place
- St. Mary's Mercy Hospital, Gary, Lake County, Indiana, United States (Gary, USA)
- Coordinates
- 41.6009, -87.3488
- Birth time
- Disputed birth time disputed
- How the time stands
- Several conflicting times, each said to come from Jackson, his family or people close to him, circulate with no record behind any of them; Zipporah Dobyns classed the data DD in 1993, and astro-charts.com shows a Rodden rating of DD (Astrotheme shows A). 7:33 PM is adopted only as the most widely used.
- About the clock
- Gary kept Chicago time, and the zone history for America/Chicago gives Central Daylight Time (UTC−5) from April 27 to October 26, 1958; Indiana's 1957 law made Central Time official but let communities adopt daylight time in summer.
The Rodden rating is the standard grade for a birth-time source. AA means a birth certificate or record, A the person's or family's memory, B a biography, C a source that could not be traced, and DD conflicting times.
Other times printed elsewhere
- 07:54 · Richard Gehman, who gave it to Lois Rodden and would not reveal his own source (reported by Zipporah Dobyns, The Mutable Dilemma, 1993)
- 23:45 · Marc Penfield, citing the first edition of a biography Dobyns calls Moon Walker; Dobyns says no one else could confirm it and later editions may have dropped it (Dobyns, 1993)
- 01:30 · A subscriber to Dobyns's journal, from an astrologer who said it came from a close associate of Jackson (Dobyns, 1993)
- 21:00 · The American Federation of Astrologers, received from an unknown source (Dobyns, 1993)
- 12:54 · Zipporah Dobyns's speculative time, set to put transiting Pluto on the Ascendant when the 1993 story broke; she says she had no faith in it (Dobyns, 1993)
- 19:03 · Zipporah Dobyns's speculative chart, fitted to his character as described by J. Randy Taraborrelli and to a few life events (Dobyns, 1993)
- 23:53 · Cafe Astrology's rectified chart, which states that his birth time is not known for certain
- 23:55 · An unnamed KP-system astrologer's rectification, repeated on anonymous auto-generated chart pages
- 10:00 · An earlier Astrotheme listing, as described by a reader comment on Eric Francis's Planet Waves post of June 27, 2009; no source given
- 05:30 · AstroSage, citing the Vedic chart collection Kundli Sangraha (Tendulkar); no record named
- 12:09 · An anonymous chart page's anecdote that Jackson told an astrologer this time from his birth certificate; no named source
