Get it added to the collection at https://24hourtime.info/2022/07/13/the-sun-clock/
Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones
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#32the 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'…
Enticing you to configure the timezones yourself, ehhh? Ehhh? wiggles eyebrows
Re: Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha, yes! But Newfoundland's hour hand should be offset a little bit!
Ah yes that too. A classic edge case to add frustrating complexity to your implementation! :)
Always fun! It does the same for every other offset timezone, and seen from that timezone, everything else is slightly offset :)
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#34Re: Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones
#35Looks a lot like the app World Clock Pro I’ve used for a while: https://worldclock.pro/mobile/
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#36Excellent. You can see at a glance which of the cities are in right now in day light and where's night.
Not precisely though since in different places, the sun goes up/under at different times.
An interesting thing could be if the small hands had a color that indicates the night/day/dusk/dawn
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#37Shouldn't there be two minute hands if you add LA and India (PST and IST)? The minutes are offset by 30 mins in this scenario.
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#38Two ideas to consider adding to this cool concept:
1. Could there be an option to place 00:00 at the top instead of the bottom? It looks like both positions have been used for analog 24 hour clocks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_analog_dial
2. Could there be an option to set the background to be a polar-projected world map (e.g. United Nations emblem) that rotates to align with the turning of the hour hands?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuthal_equidistant_projecti...
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#39Shouldn't there be two minute hands if you add LA and India (PST and IST)? The minutes are offset by 30 mins in this scenario.
You can see this by the position of the hour hands. The minute hand is “just” a convenience.
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#40It would be nice to have a permalink to a version with my customized list of time zones. I imagine it would be useful to send it for recurring meetings with the same set of persons.