Sun Clock
Productivity
clock and sun position display
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
7 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea and well executed
From 3 comments
https://github.com/virtualgeoff/sunclock Very cool!
gardenfelder on HNthis is so good, i love it! some soft radial gradient roughly matching the sum would be pretty, but then the twilight edges are hard to distinguish…
yababa_y on HNlove it! as a kid I never understood why we used 12 hours clock instead of 24 hours. 12hours is not a natural cycle
skyde on HN
Interesting moon phase display
From 1 comment
Interesting! That's similar to a clock that my brother and I made years ago (http://naturalclock.net). Ours adds the altitude of the sun throughout the day and lets you select…
erutuon on HN
Objections
Location permission required; shows error if denied
From 1 comment
"Location error: User denied Geolocation" There was a SunClock for the OpenLook toolkit. It worked (not like the above one) and it looked much better.
hulitu on HN
No night shown and twilight edges hard to distinguish
From 2 comments
Where's night? Does 'twilight' include night? I thought that it was a separate phase before/after night? e.g., comparing the clock to the diagram at…
yrro on HNthis is so good, i love it! some soft radial gradient roughly matching the sum would be pretty, but then the twilight edges are hard to distinguish…
yababa_y on HN
Requests
Add a radial gradient matching the sun
From 1 comment
this is so good, i love it! some soft radial gradient roughly matching the sum would be pretty, but then the twilight edges are hard to distinguish…
yababa_y on HN
Add to 24hourtime.info list of dials
From 1 comment
Great work! There's a long history of similar dials listed at https://24hourtime.info/ - perhaps yours can be added there!
cormullion on HN
Questions
Why the clock runs anticlockwise
From 1 comment
Apologies if this is a dumb question, but why does it go anticlockwise?
tagh on HN
Where night is shown
From 1 comment
Where's night? Does 'twilight' include night? I thought that it was a separate phase before/after night? e.g., comparing the clock to the diagram at…
yrro on HN
Alternatives named
Apple Watch Solar Dial face
From 1 comment
I’m stoked by the Solar Dial face on my iWatch. Shows time of nautical and civil dawn and dusk, sun rise and set, length of day, and time before and after those various events.
wrycoder on HN
naturalclock.net
From 1 comment
Interesting! That's similar to a clock that my brother and I made years ago (http://naturalclock.net). Ours adds the altitude of the sun throughout the day and lets you select…
erutuon on HN
Android 24h analog widget
From 1 comment
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.staticfree.android.twentyfourhour is a widget for Android and very neat (though it doesn't properly cache location)…
mxmilkiib on HN
OpenLook SunClock
From 1 comment
"Location error: User denied Geolocation" There was a SunClock for the OpenLook toolkit. It worked (not like the above one) and it looked much better.
hulitu on HN