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שבת ט,ב

מנחה גדולה 12:30, early mincha a normal day when the night is as long as the day six and half hours starting at 6:00 in the morning.
3:30 מנחה קטנה late mincha nine and half hours

The RMA in SA O’CH 232 says that the custom is to allow a big meal at the early mincha and small meal and the late mincha. People will remember to daven as they usually daven in a shul.

Tosfas says that even though maariv is voluntary, we should still be careful not to be mevatel for no reason. Once a person says it, he makes it obligatory. Currently, since everyone davens maariv, why don’t we have the shliach tzibur repeat the shmonei esrei for maariv? Maybe, since it was voluntary originally it was never instituted. The MB 237,1 says that it became a mitzva which cannot force the repetition.