“The Ancient Egyptian civilization is usually credited with establishing the division of the night into 12 parts, although there were many variations over the centuries. Astronomers in the Middle Kingdom (9th and 10th Dynasties) observed a set of 36 decan stars throughout the year. These star tables have been found on the lids of coffins of the period. The heliacal rising of the next decan star marked the start of a new civil week, which was then 10 days. The period from sunset to sunrise was marked by 18 decan stars. Three of these were assigned to each of the two twilight periods, so the period of total darkness was marked by the remaining 12 decan stars, resulting in the 12 divisions of the night. The time between the appearance of each of these decan stars over the horizon during the night would have been about 40 modern minutes. During the New Kingdom, the system was simplified, using a set of 24 stars, 12 of which marked the passage of the night.” (wikipedia)
If this makes perfect sense to you, don’t bother downloading our clock. However, if you want a simpler approach to the division of time (the day in this case) feel free to try our ProgressClock™. This clock simplifies time by showing the elapsed percent of the day. Unfortunately, a quick Google search revealed that this has been done before, but we took it a step further by making it a Google Gadget which you can add to your iGoogle page. If you guys like this, we might also make a Vista widget, Java applet, etc.
Version 1:
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Source code and everything can be downloaded here : version 1, version 2
27 responses to "progress Clock"
gosh
OMG guys this is totally awesome, but wheres the google widget?!?
can u , please, preatty preatty please, make this clock for desktop? I really like it and I want to see it allways on my desktop…this clock makes me apreciate time
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i want this thing for win xp also
i like it a lot
you r realy goooooooood dude
bye
its pretty cool but totally unnecessary. You can easily gauge how much time is left by looking at a real clock.
Technically shouldn’t it be loading the next weekday, as the current one is already running?
@Izkata, u’re totally right man.
original idea though, for the clockmaker, awesome
Sorry but what this “thing” is good for ????
This would be GREAT as a Firefox add-on. I should ho right next to the help tab
Seriously
Beautiful, however there an error I get in my debugger…
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Clck/resizeHandler()
at Main/resizeHandler()
at Main/addedToStage()
might wana see what it is.
I agree, i would like to see a firefox plugin.
Thanks for the support guys, we will take the time and make an adobe air widget so you can have it on desktop (no matter the OS you are using)
Arto: Tnx for the heads up , will take care of that too
The firefox idea is nice also, we’ll look into it.
Keep close,
InHive Team
Very nice and interesting!
Also I will be joyfull about a firefox plugin or, why not, a plasmoid for kde4.1?
This is totally pointless, why does everyone think it is so cool? Idiots.
you are an idiot. this is cool stuff, it makes you appreciate time!
totally dope idea.. i love it.
hilarious. not sure how actually useful i would find this, but its certainly a great way to look at time.
@Ryan: Why not try looking at things from a different perspective today??
Some pple like it, and some don’t {i.e., you}.
Also, I don’t think that its necessary to call pple ‘idiots’ just cuz they like something, and you don’t, Yes??
wow different perspective of the day
http://www.dimpmexico.com
one for xp would be greatly appreciated
I have a mobile version of this, albeit slightly more antique – its called a “Watch”
brand name watch…
[...] and Dearie but because time didn”t allow us to, we didn”t get to meet up. Bus-ed back home around 10 (: Anyway the watches Usuals bought online have arrived and I am supposed to collect them at Woodlands Mrt on Tuesday since I will [...]…
Very cool!!!
Yes – I would love a version for my 64-bit Vista.
I’ll check back for it.
Thanks!
Charly
hey, that’s a great idea…
maybe, for making it better you can make a clock with the percentages of the day, week, month and year.
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Neat. This could easily be made into an Adobe Air app. Any takers? I’m swamped…
Excellent Please develop this as a vista widget!
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