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One issue with your graphical clock being modulus-24 is that it interferes with everyone's lifetime exposure to analog clocks that are modulus-12. Losing that

by jasode 5y ago

One issue with your graphical clock being modulus-24 is that it interferes with everyone's lifetime exposure to analog clocks that are modulus-12. Losing that spatial awareness of where the hour hand "typically" sits makes it harder to read. I think simple text list of different locations and their current local time is much easier to mentally parse.

hhebbo 5y ago
I hear you. The awareness of the where the hand stands still works for local hours though. When working across-time-zones and scheduling client meetings, the list of local clocks and emails to coordinate become a hassle quickly in my experience.
- jasode 5y ago
  >The awareness of the where the hand stands still works for local hours though. It doesn't work for local because there's a fundamental difference of geometry between 12 vs 24 subdivisions of a 360 degree circle. Look at the screenshot to see that the hour-hand pointing to "8" are different angles (240 degrees vs 300 degrees): https://imgur.com/a/8DZCeqe https://imgur.com/a/8DZCeqe In your clock, it "looks like 10am" instead of 8am because of the accumulated lifetime repetition of reading traditional 12-hour clocks.
  - hhebbo 5y ago
    Ah got what you mean. Yes you're right. I'll think about a solution for that. Maybe some setting for the user to choose either a 24-hour or 12-hour system. It'll be challenging with the letter though, but I'll give it a shot.
zokier 5y ago
24 hour clock faces are not completely novel idea, they have been around for a long time already. Never particularly popular, they have been used more in some niches. Soviets in particular seemed to be fond of them, you can find many Raketas etc with 24h faces. Random modern example of 24h watch https://www.oris.ch/en/watch/blue-eagles-limited-edition/01-653-7631-4684-set https://www.oris.ch/en/watch/blue-eagles-limited-edition/01-...

by jasode 5y ago

hhebbo 5y ago

I hear you. The awareness of the where the hand stands still works for local hours though. When working across-time-zones and scheduling client meetings, the list of local clocks and emails to coordinate become a hassle quickly in my experience.

jasode 5y ago
>The awareness of the where the hand stands still works for local hours though. It doesn't work for local because there's a fundamental difference of geometry between 12 vs 24 subdivisions of a 360 degree circle. Look at the screenshot to see that the hour-hand pointing to "8" are different angles (240 degrees vs 300 degrees): https://imgur.com/a/8DZCeqe https://imgur.com/a/8DZCeqe In your clock, it "looks like 10am" instead of 8am because of the accumulated lifetime repetition of reading traditional 12-hour clocks.
- hhebbo 5y ago
  Ah got what you mean. Yes you're right. I'll think about a solution for that. Maybe some setting for the user to choose either a 24-hour or 12-hour system. It'll be challenging with the letter though, but I'll give it a shot.

zokier 5y ago

24 hour clock faces are not completely novel idea, they have been around for a long time already. Never particularly popular, they have been used more in some niches. Soviets in particular seemed to be fond of them, you can find many Raketas etc with 24h faces. Random modern example of 24h watch https://www.oris.ch/en/watch/blue-eagles-limited-edition/01-653-7631-4684-set https://www.oris.ch/en/watch/blue-eagles-limited-edition/01-...