diff --git a/application/controllers/Satellite.php b/application/controllers/Satellite.php
index 32d0979db..2f3306545 100644
--- a/application/controllers/Satellite.php
+++ b/application/controllers/Satellite.php
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ class Satellite extends CI_Controller {
 		$tle     = new Predict_TLE($sat_tle->satellite, $temp[0], $temp[1]); // Instantiate it
 		$sat     = new Predict_Sat($tle); // Load up the satellite data
 
-		$now     = Predict_Time::get_current_daynum(); // get the current time as Julian Date (daynum)
+		$now     = $this->get_daynum_from_date($this->security->xss_clean($this->input->post('date'))); // get the current time as Julian Date (daynum)
 
 		// You can modify some preferences in Predict(), the defaults are below
 		//
@@ -316,4 +316,17 @@ class Satellite extends CI_Controller {
 		$data['format'] = $format;
 		$this->load->view('satellite/passtable', $data);
 	}
+
+	public static function get_daynum_from_date($date) {
+		// Convert a Y-m-d date to a day number
+
+		// Convert date to Unix timestamp
+		$timestamp = strtotime($date);
+		if ($timestamp === false) {
+			throw new Exception("Invalid date format. Expected Y-m-d.");
+		}
+
+		// Calculate the day number
+		return Predict_Time::unix2daynum($timestamp, 0);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/application/views/satellite/pass.php b/application/views/satellite/pass.php
index 83d087e6b..0d84fdd3c 100644
--- a/application/views/satellite/pass.php
+++ b/application/views/satellite/pass.php
@@ -469,12 +469,10 @@
                             <option ">Etc/GMT+12</option>
 					</select>
 					</div>
-					<!-- <div class="mb-3 w-auto">
+					<div class="mb-3 w-auto">
 						<label class="my-1 me-sm-2 w-auto" for="date"><?= __("Date"); ?></label>
-						<select class="my-1 me-sm-2 w-auto form-select" id="date" name="start">
-							<option selected value="0"><?= __("Today"); ?></option>
-						</select>
-					</div> -->
+						<input name="date" id="date" type="date" class="form-control form-control-sm w-auto" value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d'); ?>" >
+					</div>
 					<div class="mb-3 w-auto">
 						<label class="my-1 me-sm-2 w-auto" for="mintime"><?= __("Min. time"); ?></label>
 						<select class="my-1 me-sm-2 w-auto form-select" id="mintime" name="mintime">