[niftich]

The clock took me a while to understand, but then I realized it's much more intuitive than I assumed and I was reading too much into it.

Here's what's going on:

- At the center of the map is the crosshairs. Whereever this crosshair is, all other information will be a function of this location.

- The inner analog clock shows timezone-legal official time at the crosshairs on a traditional, 12-hour clock dial.

- The outer dial shows a 24-hour day's hours. The magenta dot indicates that location's current solar time, and therefore, its progression through the day.

- The colorbands immediately inside the outer dial show each phase of the day at that location, keyed by the outer dial. The legend for each color is on the right.

Honestly, the impedance mismatch between the inner 12-hour dial and the outer 24-hour dial confused me at first.

[fluxquanta]

>Honestly, the impedance mismatch between the inner 12-hour dial and the outer 24-hour dial confused me at first.

Likewise. It took me a second to realize that while the hour hand on the clock appears to be pointing at the "Astronomical twilight" shaded portion of the ring for my location, those two elements are completely unrelated.

[jMyles]

> It took me a second to realize that while the hour hand on the clock appears to be pointing at the "Astronomical twilight" shaded portion of the ring for my location, those two elements are completely unrelated.

This matches my experience precisely.

[wongarsu]

>The outer dial shows a 24-hour day's hours. The magenta dot indicates that location's current solar time, and therefore, its progression through the day.

On the outer dial, the magenta dot also shows the official time in that timezone (or rather UTC with local timezone offset). Compare for example London and Paris, which are in nearly the same longitude but different timezones.

On the color dial the magenta dot is indeed showing solar time.

[pYQAJ6Zm]

I really, really like the clock visualization. Makes me wish for a desktop utility with just the clock.