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The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall

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Re: The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall

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Post by sinuhe69 »

sinuhe69 wrote: post #68

Yeah, the Solar Dial is beautiful. But I‘ve a weird problem with it. As you can see from this screen shot: https://ibb.co/ZBKC0xg The horizon is not horizontal at all. Even weirder, the watch shows „Nautical Dawn“ at 9:21 PM and sunrise around 10:20 PM! I‘m currently in GMT+7 time zone and my iPhone is set accordingly (automatically) so no way the sun will rise in the middle of the night! The App doesn’t offer much s…

Oh silly me! A quick look at Google would solve my problem quickly but I didn’t bother to do that. I have somehow disabled the location access for the Watch Faces. So while all the other faces shown no problem, Solar Dial NEEDS my exact location to calculate the sunrise and sunset and other related times and therefore could not work properly. Problem solved. Everything now is correct as it should be.

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Post by bondolo »

reaperducer wrote: post #38
chrisseaton wrote: post #10

Wow this makes me want to buy an Apple Watch! In the military knowing first-light and last-light, down to within a few minutes, is essential daily. I have an app on my phone that tells me sunrise and sunset, but as the article describes these aren't the same thing. I also have a very expensive top-of-the-range Garmin watch and even that just tells me the less useful sunrise and sunset, which makes me suspicious it's…

I don't know if anyone knows an app that gives first-light and last-light for the phone, so I don't have to buy a new watch? I'd like one that takes into account terrain. All of the apps I've seen believe the world is a perfectly smooth. I live in a place with mountains, and my "last-light" time at certain points of the year can be as much as 50 minutes earlier than any app will predict.

It could be written. There is a dataset of world elevations at 1km resolution that I saw being used for calculating the horizon distance from arbitrary points. Searching just now it turns out that was low resolution data, 30-arcseconds and 1 arcsecond, 30m resolution is available! https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/where-can-i-get-global-elevation-d...

Re: The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall

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Post by WClayFerguson »

netrus wrote: post #48
WClayFerguson wrote: post #41

There's two kinds of watches: 1) Mechanical Watches 2) G-Shocks If you're putting something other than those on your wrist, that's fine, and you can dork out all you want, but just please don't call it a "watch". The Apple Watch is an insult to every horologist and a disgrace to everyone with an ounce of class. :) Yes I jest, but actually not all that much.

Gatekeeping "wearing a watch"? Are you sure to be an expert on class? Snobbery is not the best way to get people interested in your hobby. Isn't it great that people are getting excited about watches again? This article is about extending the features of mechanical watches with cool technology, while mechanical watches are not even particular good at telling you what time it is. Mechanical watches are cool, but so is…

I posted my comment slightly in jest, because since I wear mostly G-Shocks myself, the true 'watch snobs' would look at my watches the same way I view the Apple Watch...as a toy people put on their wrist because they want a toy, and not to tell time.

Most people who wear Apple Watch have it either as a toy to play with or as a fashion/wealth statement. I bet the majority of grown-ass men you see in an Apple Watch wouldn't think twice about sporting a bead bracelet, the silly Live Strong plastic atrocity, or my favorite thing to ridicule, the little "braided string bracelet" that some influencer in Hollywood declared cool shortly after outlawing fanny packs. haha. Yes I say all this in jest, so please don't be offended. Everything is going to be ok. :)

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Post by WClayFerguson »

vatican_banker wrote: post #67
WClayFerguson wrote: post #41

There's two kinds of watches: 1) Mechanical Watches 2) G-Shocks If you're putting something other than those on your wrist, that's fine, and you can dork out all you want, but just please don't call it a "watch". The Apple Watch is an insult to every horologist and a disgrace to everyone with an ounce of class. :) Yes I jest, but actually not all that much.

Nah, real horologists appreciate the apple watch as much as a mechanical watch. There are so many technologies to tell time. Most horologists appreciate the evolution of these technologies: manual, automatic, quartz, solar, eco-drive, spring-drive, and smart watches. All of them amazing and equally intriguing and loveable.

my comment to netrus (above) was politely pointed in your direction as well. :)

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Post by yeswatch »

In 2000 we launched our first watch collection with this eerie, intuitive and deeper understanding of time. It took Apple 20 years to catch up. I am happy to see the understanding of time is expanding. Check out our watches at: https://www.yeswatch.com/wrist-watch/worldwatch/index.html#

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Post by yeswatch »

remarkEon wrote: post #57
anonu wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one might be cooler: https://plus.maths.org/issue11/features/sundials/eqtime.gif Time adjustment you need to make to a sundial by month

One of these days I’m going to sit down and find the time to build an alarm clock app based on these charts. One that lets you sleep longer in the winter, and less in the summer. I’ve spent time up in Alaska and that was the first time I altered my sleep schedule based on daylight hours. I’ve always believed there was something to that.

Our YES V7 watches already have a sunrise and sunset alarm with 0-60 minute pre-alarm, set by you. https://www.yeswatch.com/wrist-watch/worldwatch/worldwatchV7...

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Post by yeswatch »

throw0101a wrote: post #69
chrisseaton wrote: post #10

Wow this makes me want to buy an Apple Watch! In the military knowing first-light and last-light, down to within a few minutes, is essential daily. I have an app on my phone that tells me sunrise and sunset, but as the article describes these aren't the same thing. I also have a very expensive top-of-the-range Garmin watch and even that just tells me the less useful sunrise and sunset, which makes me suspicious it's…

> In the military knowing first-light and last-light, down to within a few minutes, is essential daily. Why is that?

Because there is a dramatic difference between nocturnal and daylight operations. https://www.yeswatch.com/wrist-watch/worldwatch/past-collect...

Re: The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall

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Post by exabrial »

This reminds me a lot of a watch face I have for my Garmin Venu: SHN TxD. It's _incredibly_ useful when hiking or biking. There's one piece of repeat data I have on the watch face, which is time till sunset or sunrise.

Wrist shot: https://ibb.co/TtSS6Jh

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