Comment by perilunar

Comment by perilunar 3 months ago

Does the "double bosom" occlusion mechanism have a proper name? I always thought it was a bit daft — excusable on watches perhaps — but on larger clocks where there's plenty of space why not just have a half black sphere that rotates once per lunar month? (Even better would be a small model of the moon with a half black shade rotating around it).

Anyway: I made a (web) clock with that shows the moon position and phase: https://sunclock.net

caseyohara 3 months ago

Great work on that web clock, that's a fantastic UI.

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perilunar 3 months ago

btw here's a simple SVG animation I made while working out the code: http://virtualgeoff/demos/moonphases/

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dylan604 3 months ago

Interesting to show 60 seconds and 24 hour vs 0s. does anyone say 24-hunderd instead of 0 like this would imply?

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perilunar 3 months ago

It's common for 24 hour clocks to use 24 instead of 0. It's also pretty common for people to refer to times after midnight as 24:nn or 25:nn to emphasise it's the same evening. Timetables often do this.

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- dylan604 2 months ago
  
  I’ve had the “discussion” about hour-25 vs rolling over to hour-0 before, but in a video timecode sense. Hour-25 does not exist in timecode, so hour-25 is just wrong in that sense. I’ve seen some very strange things that happen when it rolls over in the middle of a video clip.
  
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