So intuitive and simple, it's hard to imagine this representation of time zones hasn't been conceived of before. But perhaps that's the definition of "genius"...
Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones
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#142You could make it lighter by removing even hour marks, like so https://codepen.io/kirillmyshkin/full/dyRQOda
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#143I wish I could have this on my Apple Watch, but Apple does not allow us to make our own watch faces.
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#144Very cool! Similar idea: https://www.teamlab.art/w/clock/
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#145Blur behind menu kills integrated GPU.
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#146you ever catch a flight from LAX to NEW?
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#147My OCD can't take the alignment of the second hand to the numbers. The "bottom half" should be dynamic based on current sunrise/sunset data. Better yet, let me decide my own waking hours and put that bit on the bottom. Might as well make the favicon dynamic as well.
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#148Bug: All other cities use the Phrase I type in the box. I.E.for NYC, If I type JFK, it shows JFK on its hour hand. But the local time always shows LOS for me even if I type SFO. It should show SFO, as typed.
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#149Instead of dividing by two equal halves day and night, make this dependent on sunrise and sunset of the location, would be helpful to know at a glance the actual day hours and night hours
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#150Two 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?…
Another consideration might be to switch 24 to 0 or 00. I've seen a lot of 24 hour clocks that use 24 and I'm not sure why this ever happened since there is no time in hour 24. 12:15 AM/PM is a real thing for a 12-hour clock, but 24:15 isn't, as far as I'm aware. Unless some people consider that to be the very first hour of the day, but that seems like it would invite more confusion.
I forget the reasoning, but I remember it being described to me as both necessary and a reasonably common construct.