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Re: Show HN: New time and daylight application

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Post by jMyles »

fluxquanta wrote: post #20
niftich wrote: post #18

The 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.

> 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.

This matches my experience precisely.

Re: Show HN: New time and daylight application

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Post by emilyfm »

Very nice. As somebody else mentioned, the length of the day would be nice (it could be a third column of times).

The time zone borders map is a bit low resolution so in some places it gets it wrong (for example the northern sides of Roche Harbor, WA and Eastport, MA). Also seems to be a few years out of date (doesn't show America/Santa Isabel). But I expect these are outside your control.

Sometimes it's nice to know the expected daylight in a place that you might visit later in the year, so a way to choose the day of the year would be useful. Perhaps a year-long slider across the bottom of the page that points to a date (defaulting to today)?

Re: Show HN: New time and daylight application

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Post by wongarsu »

niftich wrote: post #18

The 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…

>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.

On the outer dial, the magenta dot also shows the official time in that timezone (or rather UTC with local timezone offset). Compare for example London and Paris, which are in nearly the same longitude but different timezones.

On the color dial the magenta dot is indeed showing solar time.

Re: Show HN: New time and daylight application

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Post by tuananh »

dassreis wrote: post #2

Just finished this little application that shows the current time in any zone and a sort of animated daylight clock that adjusts according to map coordinates. Value any feedback and a few social shares if it's any good. Thanks for looking.

took me awhile to understand it. maybe make the crosshair a little more visible.
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