Maybe a clock should just overlay night/twilight areas over a map, like these:
Alternate clock designs and time systems
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Re: Alternate clock designs and time systems
#62Related, my unix time clock ("base 256"): https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532426
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#63There's also the ill-fated Swatch Internet Time, which was a decimal system that divided the day into 1,000 beats and no time zones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time They even sold physical watches with this design.
It looks like a poorly thought-out marketing project. For example, how to deal with the Earth rotation irregularity and leap seconds? One beat is way too long to correct with, so the correction has to be in centibeats, fractions of beat, inconvenient. Why would this in CET and not in UTC? Aligning start of the day with the existing customs seems beneficial.
But the idea of the universal decimal time is a nice one. I wish we had something like that.
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#6424-hour analogue clocks should have midnight at the bottom and noon at the top. Why? Because that's the way the sun moves. See https://sunclock.net
If we’re being nitpicky, your clock should be horizontally flipped and the hands should be going counterclockwise
sure if you're always facing North like a chump
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#65> The binary (base 2) clocks
Shouldn't this just have a single tick at the top labeled 1?
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#66Related, my unix time clock ("base 256"): https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532426
I enjoy yours a lot better.
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#68Reminds me of the French revolution
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#69Nice. Related, I also love exploring different ways to visualize time, so a few months back I came up with twelve variations arranged in the form of an actual clock that you can click through to see each one. Each one presents a different type of visualization (from sand, where each falling grain represents a second to a 3D-modeled set of water wheels) https://clocks.specr.net
Falling sand completely blew my mind
Re: Alternate clock designs and time systems
#70Nice. Related, I also love exploring different ways to visualize time, so a few months back I came up with twelve variations arranged in the form of an actual clock that you can click through to see each one. Each one presents a different type of visualization (from sand, where each falling grain represents a second to a 3D-modeled set of water wheels) https://clocks.specr.net
This is super-neat!