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Re: Sun Clock

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post #3

Man fuck Apple for not allowing custom Apple Watch faces >:( Always the crippled operating system limiting the potential of their amazing hardware

The “Solar Dial” face does pretty much what the site does.

Re: Sun Clock

#14
I love it. It'd be nice if I could click points on a map and see the difference to my local one as well. Or in the calendar view if it'd show a copy of the clock (i.e. coloring not current hand positions) for the time I'm hovered over.

Re: Sun Clock

#15
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https://editor.p5js.org/rhemalinder/full/im3tyPBDW - I made this one for myself and it's pretty similar. I have this hard-coded to south dakota, but it looks like this and I made it a while ago. Same idea, except I turn it such that "solar noon" is at the top. Think 12 noon is really "high noon" or solar noon? Nope, not unless you are in the center of a timezone!

The objective time of "local noon" also varies due to the Earth's orbit not being a perfect circle, and the Earth's axis being tilted with respect to the plane of its orbit. The variance is described by the equation of time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time

Re: Sun Clock

#18

Also made something like this called Sun Path which tracks where the sun is through centuries and how the path deviates ever so slowly. Plus there are all the equinoxes and solstices. https://pilgrimapp.org/sunpath/

Dragging the globe around isn't working on touch; it feels like it's missing touch-action: none

Re: Sun Clock

#20
I've been wanting to build this exact clock for awhile now. My feature request would be to include a timeline at the bottom of the page that I can scroll back and forth through days of the year to see everything shift.
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