This is a project to implement an elegant wall clock that tells me the time, and a few other things.
- It's a 24 hour analog clock, and with only an hour hand, for a more direct time-reading experience.
- The face incorporates my ideal daily routine, to help me work towards that ideal every day.
- A second dial shows a time in another time zone with a configurable offset, for immediate time reading across time zones.
The clock face is currently being designed in this repository:
The outer rim rotates independently and the outer numbers then represent the time in another time zone (see below).
TODO List:
- Select and order 24 hour mechanism and clock hands
- Design clock face and dial
- Iterate dial design
- Order dial and bezel
- Print clock face on good paper and assemble clock
- Incorporate into wall dashboard (with barometer and thermometer)
A dozen numerals
The numerals use a dozenal (base 12) system, because I prefer the look, and I'm the only one who has to read this clock. I'm using letters X for ten and E (reflected 3) for eleven.
I don't really like the popular conventions for the transdecimal numerals ten and eleven (though I understand their appeal and accept their popularity). For what it's worth, I might propose using X for ten, Y for eleven, and Z for twelve (if a symbol other than 10 were needed), pronounced "dex, (ele)vyn, doz". X, Y, Z shares the alphabetic sequence; X matches the roman numeral for ten, and Z is for zwölf (german for twelve) as well as a prominent letter in the word 'dozen'. Accordingly, I would use the letter z to denote base-12 literals in programming (as in 0z10X = 154). But nobody is asking me :).
A readable world clock.
Digital world clocks show the current time in multiple places, but to figure out what the world time will be at some other local time, one has to think. Analog world clocks---with one dial per timezone---are even worse, because one also has to think just to read the current times.
This is an analog world clock that displays two timezones on one dial. The outer dial has a configurable offset from the main dial. The hour hand will therefore point out the local and world time together (including AM/PM status, since it's a 24 hour clock). The world time at any other local time can be readily assessed by looking at other points around the dial.
- Gothic font: https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/hersheyoldenglishfont/
- Black sans-serif font: https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/qthelvetblack/
- Regular sans-serif font: https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/cabin/
This is not just a design, I'm making a real clock for my wall. Apart from the face, which I'll print on some cream paper or something, I ordered the clock parts from letsmaketime in Queensland:
- 24hr clock movement
- Hands (cut down to fit inside)
- probably this hour hand
- or possibly this hour hand
- Glass and brass bezel
My idea for this configurable 24 hour world clock dual dial design is hereby dedicated to the public domain.