This needs a way to manually set the location. Browser location is so off sometimes. Without that is useless for me.
You can: there's an option in the settings panel (the gear icon on the top right)
Sun Clock
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#72Love 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…
I wonder if that's a common thing generally or not. Definitely I should add it as an option though. Also whether the year starts at the top or bottom of the dial. The planets do go around the Sun anticlockwise when viewed looking down from above the North pole [0], and most diagrams show it that way, so maybe that's where the idea comes from? 0. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year
Yes, this has to be where the picture originates. Given that almost all maps show the north facing up, picturing the Earth rotating anti-clockwise around the Sun throughout the year makes sense. A bit similar to how clocks for the times of day run clockwise probably because this aligns with the rotation of a sundial placed in the Northern hemisphere. In the Southern hemisphere, a sundial runs anti-clockwise.
Although, converse arguments can be made for both - even if we assume an observer located in the north. If we do indeed picture the Earth rotating in space from the outside - it actually rotates counterclockwise around its axis with the north up. So should day clocks actually run "backwards"? And the "fixed" background of distant stars seem to rotate around a northern observer in the clockwise direction throughout the year - so the image of the year rotating clockwise is just as correct.
Everything seems relative to the prespective chosen.
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#73For an alternate version that packs sunrise and sunset into an easier-to-read 12-hour clockface, check out my https://dayspiral.com
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#74For an alternate version that packs sunrise and sunset into an easier-to-read 12-hour clock face, check out my https://dayspiral.com
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#75There is also an IRL variation of one-handed clocks that someone launched back in 2011: https://thepresent.is/collections/the-shop/products/the-pres...
The absence of a simple, single-handed watch face like Day or Sun Clock is my biggest objection to Apple Watch refusing to allow publicly-created third-party face designs.
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#76Man 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.
It may do equivalent functionality but it sure doesn't do equivalent aesthetic.
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#77Makes me want to build this physically with a color e-ink display + a standardish 24h clock mechanism
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#78There is also an IRL variation of one-handed clocks that someone launched back in 2011: https://thepresent.is/collections/the-shop/products/the-pres... The absence of a simple, single-handed watch face like Day or Sun Clock is my biggest objection to Apple Watch refusing to allow publicly-created third-party face designs.
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#79Neat. 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/
Thanks for posting this, I remember seeing it somewhere some time ago but didn't bookamrk the site and couldn't remember the name. It has some very nice plots (and city comparison) for data freaks like myself :-)
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#80would love this integrated into my iphone alarm clock