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Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones

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Re: Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones

#51

If anyone wants to wear a 24-hour dial on their wrist: * https://romeoswatches.com/the-5-best-24-hours-watches-buying... * https://svalbard.watch/pages/Svalbard_24-hour_watches.html * https://vintagewatchinc.com/24-hour-watch/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_analog_dial#Watches

Wowzers I love these one-hand 'slow' watches! https://svalbard.watch/pages/Svalbard_24-hour_watches.html

I hope I can get Pole Clock on Apple Watch, wish they allowed custom watch faces!

Re: Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones

#55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always found it quite weird (though obviously convenient) that Warsaw and Madrid are on the same time zone

They are not. It is 17:25 in Warsaw now, 16:25 in Dublin.

Oops, not sure what city I was thinking of when I wrote Dublin

My point is that CET feels rather wide to me, so I guess substitute for Sevilla or Madrid

Re: Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones

#57

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!

How about an option to show the digital clock on the hand. Engineer in me is not satisfied with lack of precision.

Re: Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones

#58

Two 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?…

For the second one, that is what is done by this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1335/

But unfortunately they have noon at the top.

Re: Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones

#60

Why 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 :)

Actually, you can’t if you are in that time zone. If I have my local device in a different time zone, then yes, I can set the name.
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