Pretty ui, I'd like to see a physical alarm clock like this.
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#12It's great. The 12, 24, and light clock visualization is particularly good. In terms of feedback, only one thing: The first thing I tried didn't work. This was dragging the map so I could explore the effect of latitude on day length in both hemispheres. It appears to only support the case where the crosshairs are near an actual city (which is not possible deep down in the southern hemisphere).
This might benefit from the code at https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4597134, which uses lat/long directly.
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#13This is very nice. The only thing I'd like better is if it changed on the fly as you scrolled around (rather than you needing to have the screen stationary).
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#14Doesn't seem to handle DST. Otherwise, great thing! Makes me want to use it everyday!
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#15Was recently reading about the photography "Golden hour"[0], and this is very relevant. Bookmarked - thanks!
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_(photography)
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#16This is great. You know what would really take it to the next level? Tides! It would be awesome if micro-adjustments along the coast showed the times of low and high tides. My parents, who live along the coast, would use it multiple times/day. Most tide applications are a little too complex for their needs.
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#17Love this, good work. Some suggestions (these are my own little quirks):
- (desktop) Zooming is on the cursor, rather than on the crosses at the center. Don't know if that's a maps thing or not. Kind of annoying to position location on the center, then zooming to where ever the cursor happened to be.
- would love it if it showed the duration of the day (HH:MM:SS) (in addition to the time of day for sunrise and sunset), and also the duration between {astronomical, nautical, civil} dawn and dusk.
All that being said, this is a really good app.
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#18The clock took me a while to understand, but then I realized it's much more intuitive than I assumed and I was reading too much into it.
Here's what's going on:
- At the center of the map is the crosshairs. Whereever this crosshair is, all other information will be a function of this location.
- The inner analog clock shows timezone-legal official time at the crosshairs on a traditional, 12-hour clock dial.
- The outer dial shows a 24-hour day's hours. The magenta dot indicates that location's current solar time, and therefore, its progression through the day.
- The colorbands immediately inside the outer dial show each phase of the day at that location, keyed by the outer dial. The legend for each color is on the right.
Honestly, the impedance mismatch between the inner 12-hour dial and the outer 24-hour dial confused me at first.
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#19I like this a lot. For some reason it doesn’t quite work in Safari on Mac as the fields don’t get populated, but in Chrome it worked very well.
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#20The clock took me a while to understand, but then I realized it's much more intuitive than I assumed and I was reading too much into it. Here's what's going on: - At the center of the map is the crosshairs. Whereever this crosshair is, all other information will be a function of this location. - The inner analog clock shows timezone-legal official time at the crosshairs on a traditional, 12-hour clock dial. - The out…
>Honestly, the impedance mismatch between the inner 12-hour dial and the outer 24-hour dial confused me at first.
Likewise. It took me a second to realize that while the hour hand on the clock appears to be pointing at the "Astronomical twilight" shaded portion of the ring for my location, those two elements are completely unrelated.