Request to Perth . . .

Re: Request to Perth . . .

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Not sure what it is designed to do. It is a bunch of dates with numbers but no directions or designations. If I chanced on it I would know what it was supposed to be.

I have a great international clock on my iPod (80 GB model).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Request to Perth . . .

Paul Kierstead

>It is a rather clever clock (in my mind anyway)/calendar. You read all the bits by following the line up. I first seen this quite some time ago by a guy who was a modern artist (or is that a modernist artist?) who also had "flash as art" who had a very visually appealing version of it . AFAIK, it just reads your local time, so it isn't really international so much as can read your computers clock.

Don't know but....

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>I like the dancing bacon slab on the homepage!

Works here in New Zealand, but . . .

Angus Barclay, in New Zealand

>Works here in New Zealand, but what's the point? I've got five timepieces on or near me right now (computer, wall clock, desk clock, cellphone, wristwatch) that are easier to use than this thing.

Reply from Sydney ... It doesn't really "work"

Ian (in Sydney, Australia)

>Well I just tried it

a cute little application

It's biggest short comming is that it relies on the regional settings, time and date being correctly set on the computer where it is dislayed.

To test it I changed my local time and date to 22 April 2006 and the clock duely told me that it is 8:08 on Sunday April 2, 2006.

What would be REALLY useful is a clock that displayed the current US Naval Observatory (or Greenwich Observatory) time automaticly corrected for the time difference between here (154� East) and the observatory.

regards Ian

Re: Reply from Sydney ... It doesn't really "work" *LINK*

GolfSteve in Calgary

>I use this little application. It seems to look up the timesomewhere because it is not affected by my local setting.

It's downside is that it does not continuously update; it just shows you the time when you check in. You can change the cities displayed.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html?cities=55,47,493,79


World Time Clock

Nieces and Nephew . . .

s.mackay@worldnet.att.net

>Thanks all ! Especialy Perth and NewZeland. You pretty much thrilled the kids ! Something to do with a school class. Probably had more to do with corespondance than the clock itself. Who knows. They got a kick out of your responses though ! Thanks again !

OT Atomic clock

Andrew F in Australia

>Hi Ian,

I downloaded the atomic clock software from www.worldtimeserver.com

Gives you local time correct to within a couple of seconds and updates your system clock if it's out.

CHeers,

Andrew

No longer there, but XP has settings to synchronis *LINK*

Andrew F in Australia

>Sorry, they've taken the link down.

Here's a quote from where I downloaded the program

Most of the visitors to this site are using Windows XP, which has an atomic clock sync feature built in and included as part of your operating system. If you have Windows XP and wish to check your synchronization settings, look for the clock at the bottom right and double click on the time to bring up your time settings. You can adjust your local time and date by hand on the first tab, you can adjust your time zone location on the second, and on the third, labeled Internet Time, you can view your current atomic clock sync settings.

If you want to run an analogue clock syncronised to the atomic clock at the US NIST, they've got the program up still on this site.

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/clocks/wtsclock001.aspx

Cheers,

Andrew


http://http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/

And on the Mac...

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>It's all unnecessary. Simply go to the Date/Time System Preference and ask Apple to set the clock for you.

Pam

Re: Request to Perth . . .

Donald Pierson

>It is an interesting use of both digital and analog representation of time. Very unique!

Or look here ;-)

Dan Donaldson

>

Cute.

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

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Re: Reply from Sydney ... It doesn't really "work"

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ This website shows the time in your time zone, probably based on the settings in your computer. Kind of a neat site too. My computer is off by about 2 minutes, but I guess I don't really care ;)

;-)

Dan Donaldson

>

The Nieces and Nephew might like this *LINK*

Ian (in Sydney, Australia)

>Glad the kids got a kick out of our responses.

If you want let them watch the local (Aussie) weather in real time.

The link will take them to the weather radar home page for Australia.

Clicking on any of the red triangles will bring up the latest weather radar image (which is updated every 10 minutes)

as I write you can see rain (from a small cyclone) in Darwin and thunderstorm rain over Sydney.


Weather Radar station map

Pretty cool . . .

s.mackay@worldnet.att.net

>Sent it on to them. Thanks much ! I enjoy being the "excentric" Uncle but are'nt they supposed to be the "techie" generation ? Seems I can dig more stuff out of the "Devil Box" than they. But then, they don't hang out here either. Gotta work on that !