Help for the clock (The Serious Clock)
This is version 2.6 (2/1/2004) under test
Bug reports, suggestions, comments or any ideas may be sent to clock@tsiros.net
Changes from previous version
1. New feature added.This version support alarms at regular intervals.(read Alarms)
2. when you are at some region, you can see the alarms on another region (converted to the current region's time) when the mouse is over the button of that region.
3.Now when there is a change of date (beetween regions) the date is calculated and displayed (in yellow color)
4.There is no need to find the empty position to place an alarm.When you click to select an hour for the alarm, the alarmcounter jump to the empty position.
5.When you set an alarm (clicking on OFF) the clock set the hour for the alarm in order to ring as soon as possible.
i.e Say it is 06:00
clicking on 8, the alarm will be set to 08:00
clicking on 5, the alarm will be set to 17:00
you can force the alarm to ring at 05:00 (next day) manually
In order to hear the sound from the alarm, multiclock.htm must exist with a file named "notify.wav" in the same directory.
You can change the face of the clock by editing the day.gif and night.gif
Still problems with Netscape and Opera
CPU usage ~1%
Your browser must accept cookies in order to remember the settings.
Before you start clicking, please read the following:
The first time you open the clock you see the correct local time and at the center of the clock you see the word "Local"
The current region is "Local". If you don't see it, press the label "LT" (i.e. Local Time).
Now click on the control with label "NY". At the center you see the label "New York". The current region now set to New York.
Directly below the "8 hour" there are now two visible controls. The upper one displays the time zone for New York "-5" (GMT-5)
The other is the "switch GMT/DST". This must be set to display "DST" if this region uses Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time)
If not, select GMT.
If the settings are correct the clock will display the correct time for New York.
At this moment (8 April 2003) Europe, USA and Russia use Summer Time (DST).
If the time is AM, you will see a picture with blue color else you will see another.
Until October 2003 the DST settings for the cities do not need changing.
When you are at other region, eg. Sydney, you will see the Time Zone set to 10 GMT.
However in November 2003 when summer starts for Australia, you must change GMT to DST
On the top left you see two controls
1. The alarm switch ON/OFF (now OFF)
2. The alarm counter which display "1".
This means that the first alarm for the current region is disabled
Move the yellow pointer to some position with your mouse.
Then click on OFF to display ON. The first alarm is now enabled.
If you wish, you may now set a custom message. Right click on the "1" (the alarm counter) and write a message.
When the hour pointer reaches the yellow, a message is displayed with the name of city where the alarm is set.
If you want to add another alarm, click on the alarm counter. The switch turns to OFF and the alarm counter displays "2".
Or simply click where you want and the alarm counter jump to the next empty alarm position.
Turn the switch to ON. Right click on the "2" and write a message for the second alarm and so on.
You may browse through the alarms by continuously left clicking. When you reach the end you see the next empty position. This way you can delete unwanted alarms (by turning the switch to OFF) or set/change the message for any alarm.
If you have defined three alarms and you delete the first then the alarm counter will jump to the last alarm; which now is the second.
So you don't see the OFF and "1" but "ON" and "2"
When your mouse is over the alarm counter a small message box appears and displays the message set for that alarm.
When you enable the alarm for some regions, the labels of the regions change to red in order to remember pending alarms.
You can set a custom message for each alarm or change the time of it by right mouse clicking on the alarm counter.
Repeated alarms
If you have something to do at regular time interval.(take a pill every 8 hours) this clock can help you.
By default the clock set the alarm at a specified time.Create an alarm (as described above). Dont care about the time.
Rightclick on the alarmcounter.You see the data for this alarm.Erase the data and write: + 12:00 8:00;the message (+ space 12:00 space 8:00;bla bla bla) Press OK.
You have defined an alarm that rings every 8 hours starting from 12:00 (12:00 is the BaseHour and the 8:00 is the StepHour)
The + 13:05 15 means repeat the alarm every 15 minutes starting from 13:05
The + 20 means repeat an alarm every 20 minutes from now
The + 8:10 means repeat an alarm every 8 hours and 10 minutes from now
Don't forget the space.Else you get an error
The new hour for the repeated alarm is calculated at the time of ring..
Suppose you want to fill some of the empty slots or change some of the cities (or all) or you want to change the language.
Simply right click on a region or an empty slot, fill the prompt dialog with the new data in the following form:
button label(twoletters);region_name;mouseover_message
example GR;Athens;Greece (and don't forget the semicolons)
Press OK
Click on the control which displays the GMT offset until it displays the correct GMT offset for the region. (if it reaches 13 restart from -11).
If the GMT offset is not whole number, refer to the hidden option
After this, click if needed on the "switch GMT/DST". Set to display the correct label for this region.
But what about Adelaide (GMT+9.50, i.e. 9hr 30'), Kathmandu (GMT+5.75, 5hr 45'), New Delhi (GMT+5.50, 5hr 30')
Right click on a region. You will see the data for that region. At the end add a semicolon (;) and after that the GMT offset
example: KA;Kathmandu;Capital of Nepal;5.75
Note! the offset is a decimal and not 5.45 (hh.mm)
For Adelaide you have to add ";9.50" and not ";9.30"
This option does not work for "LT" (Local Time) because there is no need.
Click on the "V 2.6" and answer at the prompt with the specified format.
If you want to use this clock add this code to your page
<script language="javascript">
open("multiclock.htm", "clock", "width=142,height=168");
</script>
That’s all folks
Download multiclock.zip
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