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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

#131

Congratulations on this and pretty cool design. I just got the map:clock for ios which shows a map with different city times. One feature in that is to be able to do what if .. a slider to modify the times and see the time at different locations. A slider or rotary dial to change the times would be a good feature for planning. Bookmarked ur clock ! Feature requests if i may pls ! 1) Adjust the time with a slider or d…

Might do all these things!

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

#132

It 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.

This would indeed be great to have... Then it's also easier to adopt the thing for team! Good idea!

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

#133

I like it and am interested to see how this evolves. I would love it to replace the simple clock on my iPhone screen. For my own purposes I would like to see accurate day/night line that moves with the map.

Me too! Issue is that different longitudes have different sunrise/sunset times, so I went with an arbitrary cut down the middle to get a rough idea of how people in other timezones are feeling right now (tired, close to dark, etc)

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

#134

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.

I think it's more like showing a cool feature than an actual case where it is super useful.

Aye! I had a user request flag emojis for countries, so I popped the statue of liberty in for NYC to show the feature of naming :)

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

#135
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The clock shows 24 hours, and we know that NYC always behind Tokyo; you can just tell this from the arms of the clock. If it's 7:30am now for Tokyo and NYC is showing 5:30pm, we know that Tokyo is obviously a day ahead.

Of course, I can calculate. I am not interested in calculating. I am interested in the display just telling me.

The moment the date passed is midnight, the bottom of the clock, using your local hour hand it should be intuitive enough to see which timezones have passed that point, without calculation

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

#136

This is neat. I was wondering if the world map in the background could be rotated so that the city/timezone hands could (roughly) point to their respective locations. For instance, if you had the NYC and LAX hands, then the North American continent could be positioned between them with the former to the right and the latter to the left.

It should be doing this at the moment unless there is some bug :(

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

#137
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Slick design. Love that it doesn't try to do a million things. I think this would be really nice as a smartwatch face or an iPhone widget.

Yes. This is a very “Apple” design (and that is high praise).

Thank you!

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

#139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh, right! I should actually just delete the display of the local time zone... done!

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

#140

Very nice. I've wanted something simple like this. I work with team distributed all over the globe and often end up googling "time in Minsk", for example. This is a really clever way of combining all the times into a single clock.

Glad it helps you!
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