First thing I did was add Newfoundland and nope, it doesn’t add another minute hand. Time zones are ridiculous, eh?
Haha, yes! But Newfoundland's hour hand should be offset a little bit!
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#22Not sure if this was an inspiration, but xkcd has a neat clock: https://xkcd.com/now/
No! But this is fabulous! I'd love to add it to the README
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#23the city with picture arm is not readable on mobile, you need to zoom to know the actual city, it would be better to just use name instead of such small picture also quite odd default choice of cities, so I have own European city, London, then 3 East Asia cities and 2 US cities with nothing between central Europe and Thailand, no middle east, no India it would be also better if every other hour would be bigger so it'…
It's not very legible on a laptop either. Based on the orientation, I thought it was one of those old-timey pointing hand symbols [0].
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#24A suggestion: support merging timezones into a single hand. Currently, if two timezones overlap, only the first TZ is shown. However, one might want two hands as the DST shifts may be different.
Great idea! I could combine the names on a single hand
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#26Excellent. You can see at a glance which of the cities are in right now in day light and where's night.
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#27Why not abbreviate New York as NY instead of New? Why also use a statue of liberty emoji for eastern standard time instead of EST or NY?
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#28Why not abbreviate New York as NY instead of New? Why also use a statue of liberty emoji for eastern standard time instead of EST or NY?
You can configure the name to display whatever you like :)
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#29Why not abbreviate New York as NY instead of New? Why also use a statue of liberty emoji for eastern standard time instead of EST or NY?
Why all the why questions?
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#30Excellent. You can see at a glance which of the cities are in right now in day light and where's night.
Right? A 'good enough' solution / update to the regular clock, I felt! :)