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Re: Sun Clock

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Let me choose location manually.

I wish my browser let me do this by default. Rather than "let this site know your location?" it should be "select a location to give to this site".

(I'm sure there are extensions and/or developer options that do this, but it's the default I want)

Re: Sun Clock

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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

Thanks for the note. I just fixed it.

Re: Sun Clock

#25
Neat. One of my favourite sites, which also shows daylight, is WeatherSpark[0], obviously focused on weather and it allows you to compare locations based on yearly rainfall, cloud cover, muggy conditions, all sorts of stuff. Always check it when going on vacation or relocating.

[0] https://weatherspark.com/

Re: Sun Clock

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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!

> Nope, not unless you are in the center of a timezone! … and you do not live with daylight saving time.

Or one of those places that ignores its assigned time zone.

There are places in the western U.S. where entire towns operate on their own time, and the only place you'll find a "correct" clock is in the Post Office. Not even in City Hall.

Re: Sun Clock

#27
Love it!

One weird thing: the author of this clock/calendar portrays the year rotating clockwise (click on the calendar icon in top left to see the "annual" calendar): January in 12 to 1 o'clock, February in 1 to 2 o'clock, etc. and December in 11 to 12 o'clock.

In a poll of some close friends recently, we found out that most of us (>80% including myself) had always mentalized the year rotating counter-clockwise (starting from January at 12 to 11 o'clock, Februay at 10 to 11 o'clock etc. and finally December in 1 to 12 o'clock.)

Bizarely none of us could explain why we had such weird anti-clockwise mental image of the annual cycle, but all who viusalized the year running counter-clockwise said they had done so for as long as they could remember.

Re: Sun Clock

#28

Love it! One weird thing: the author of this clock/calendar portrays the year rotating clockwise (click on the calendar icon in top left to see the "annual" calendar): January in 12 to 1 o'clock, February in 1 to 2 o'clock, etc. and December in 11 to 12 o'clock. In a poll of some close friends recently, we found out that most of us (>80% including myself) had always mentalized the year rotating counter-clockwise (sta…

Interesting, I don’t have a circular mental image of the year at all. It’s more like a continuous line — the summers are light and the winters are dark(er) — where the previous year doesn’t coincide with the next year. Same for the week (and the month, but the months have different lengths anyway). Also not for the day, which takes two revolutions of the clock. Does anyone visualize the day as two circles? Probably not.

Re: Sun Clock

#29

It must be clock-making time... I built a 24-hour clock a few days ago but in base-12 and with 72 seconds per minute (to reuse the outer 24-hour dial, with 3 subdivisions to make it closer to the normal second) https://jasonincanada.github.io/24-hour-base-12-clock.html#w...

interesting

Re: Sun Clock

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Love it! One weird thing: the author of this clock/calendar portrays the year rotating clockwise (click on the calendar icon in top left to see the "annual" calendar): January in 12 to 1 o'clock, February in 1 to 2 o'clock, etc. and December in 11 to 12 o'clock. In a poll of some close friends recently, we found out that most of us (>80% including myself) had always mentalized the year rotating counter-clockwise (sta…

Did you go to the same elementary school?
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