Beautiful! One small thing on the iPhone using Safari; it would be nice to have the clock vertically centered. Now it’s near the bottom half of the screen. Looking great otherwise!
I built a digital clock for my neighbor with Alzheimer a few years ago. It was a web app with an analog clock and it would show Morning / Afternoon / Evening / Night on the side.
I felt quite proud of myself, since she often got confused about whether it was 6am or 6pm on her analog clocks at home. (Alzheimer's can bring a loss of the sense of time.)
But while she thought it was a great idea, every time I came back, she had turned off the dedicated tablet we set up for the purpose
I ended up just buying her an Alzheimer's clock — a 24 hour clock with pictures indicating the time of day, for $15 or so. That one stayed where we put it!
Very clean and polished! I love how smooth the seconds hand move.
I work in an environment where we look at the time across many different timezones around the world. A couple of feature requests if you are ever in the mood:
1. Make it possible to specify the timezone.
2. Make it possible to create a grid of clocks, each with different timezones.
3. Persist the grid/timezone state in the URL so links can be easily shared.
This is something I vibecoded to learn my kid the clock. I think this is a very good use of ai coding, stuff that is for visualization and temporary learning.
I appreciate the straightforwardness of this. If I could make one request, it would be to support more of a "tick" mode instead of the continuous second hand motion. It doesn't even have to actually make noises, I just like the visuals of the clock hand starting and stopping every second. I don't know if there's a more formal name for this in Clock World
If you're looking for more to add: ticking second hands have momentum. How about having the ticking hand go beyond the proper place by a degree, then snap back into proper position?
You're literally describing the worst thing about the quartz watches. The best of them (aka most expensive) go to really great lengths to not have any momentum. Why would you want to have it when not needed?
Can you set it to ticks instead of continuous running of the seconds clockhand That would be great. The vast majority of analog clocks have a ticking clockhand for the seconds, if any at all (can you make the seconds optional?).
The only clocks I know of with such a motor are station clocks, like the Swiss one mentioned already, or the German variant (same manufacturer). But these have a twist: the minute clockhand does not run continuously, but also ticks. The seconds are running a little bit faster until the clockhand is in the upper position, then waits for a signal from the main clock. Only then the minute clockhand jumps one minute and the seconds are starting again.
May I suggest that we keep it as clean as it now, and maybe have something like the domain `/advanced` for those who want more features? (If OP has time to implement them)
I like it. Simple, well-designed, smooth. It's nice everything fits in a single HTML page with no external dependencies. The inline style and script is human readable, which is becoming rare these days.
The PTB (national metrology institute of Germany) provides a similar clock for decades. It is one of the few displaying the real time, not your computer’s time. The difference (if any) can be shown.
Listened my wife talk about her job, she works as preschool teacher and she has talked about clocks etc. Well then I thought that I could do minimal web page with analog lock, SURE clocksimulator.com domain cannot be free....
I felt quite proud of myself, since she often got confused about whether it was 6am or 6pm on her analog clocks at home. (Alzheimer's can bring a loss of the sense of time.)
But while she thought it was a great idea, every time I came back, she had turned off the dedicated tablet we set up for the purpose
I ended up just buying her an Alzheimer's clock — a 24 hour clock with pictures indicating the time of day, for $15 or so. That one stayed where we put it!
I work in an environment where we look at the time across many different timezones around the world. A couple of feature requests if you are ever in the mood:
Related, I made a clock with a moire pattern (10 years ago now) and still love coming back to it.
The hands all spin with css transitions and I remember there was a Safari bug where if I zoomed in, the rotation would reset itself
https://psychedelic-clock.surge.sh
https://utforsk.github.io/clockeroo/
The only clocks I know of with such a motor are station clocks, like the Swiss one mentioned already, or the German variant (same manufacturer). But these have a twist: the minute clockhand does not run continuously, but also ticks. The seconds are running a little bit faster until the clockhand is in the upper position, then waits for a signal from the main clock. Only then the minute clockhand jumps one minute and the seconds are starting again.
An example can be seen here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnhofsuhr#Technik
There is also a time announcement if needed.
https://uhr.ptb.de/
You're covered (down to the stalling second in some models): https://mondaine.com/
If I use any analog clock simulator in the future, it will be yours.
Kudos.
Good ol' days spirit