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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

#63

Really cool idea. The Statue of Liberty glyph for NYC is extremely difficult to make out (on mobile, at any rate). I would much prefer NYC. Also not sure why NYC has to be special, I would have thought UTC would the special one.

Yeah me too struggled a lot to make out that it was the Statue of Liberty

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

#64

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!

There are two options - the Solar and World Time faces are 24h

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

#68
post #26

Excellent. 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

If you want a single-view visualisation of sunrise/sunset across the globe, there's always this design: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html

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

#70

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?…

> 1. Could there be an option to place 00:00 at the top instead of the bottom?

I wear a 24 hour analogue dial wrist watch, with 24 on top. I'll admit, I sometimes wish I had chosen 12 on top, since it's more naturally to look at the watch during the day, and less so during the night. Since it more naturally follows - on quick visual inspection - what it would look like on a normal 12 hour analogue dial.

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