Different Clocks
18 comments
·July 28, 2025iosjunkie
Placed my cursor at the top of the hour peak on the 'Peaks' clock. Few moments later, it shifted slightly to the left. Had a bit of existential dread as I saw time slipping away.
Nice clocks though.
miteyironpaw
If you would like a little more existential dread https://ttl.hex.nz/
rook_line_sinkr
The binary clock reminds me of this real-life one near the Zoo in Berlin
sublinear
Looks like base-5, but very cool!
rezmason
I like the combined blob clock a lot! I plan to make a codepen of it, with just hours, minutes and seconds, to see what that's like.
MrJohz
When you're done, I'd love to see it as well, and I'm sure others would - yours was my exact thought when I got to that part!
DougBTX
The once-per-millennium marks are captivating. They feel almost within our understanding, but not quite.
beej71
Like those insane gear ratio videos on YouTube... You know the final gear is turning, logically, but the fact that the Sun will eat the Earth long before the gear completes a single turn lends a strange perspective.
daedrdev
I saw a neat one where they put the last gear in a block of cement while still spinning the first one quite fast.
DaveZale
clock of the Long Now!
ghxst
Love the binary and wave clocks, instantly got me thinking about how it could work as a subtle graphical element in a landing page footer or something like that.
DaveZale
Nice, very innovative. It makes me think of weird stuff
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how about a pac-man running around the dial consuming your seconds as you watch? wooka wooka wooka wooka...
toast0
There's a lot of Pac-Man watches... most of them not very exciting, but this one [1] might be what you're looking for.
Towaway69
Had an idea for physical clock once where there is a chain of 60 links rotating around a central motor that moved the chain so slowly that the top link was showing the correct time within a twelve minute range - five links per hour for a twelve hour clock.
Everyone should redesign the representation of time once in their life :)
xnx
AI coding tools are quite fun for making different clock concepts.
Here's a one-shot recreation of "Against the Run" (https://listart.mit.edu/art-artists/against-run-2019): https://g.co/gemini/share/c1dcfbd9cf9a
mattmar96
I love the combined blob!
GuinansEyebrows
very cool. reminds me of an old iPhone clock app called "hms" that displayed a rectangular prism, and each dimension (x, y, z) corresponded with the hour, minute and second, so the shape would grow over time before resetting one or more dimensions. it got delisted years ago for some reason but i used to love it as a "nightstand mode" clock.
You're missing the Towers of Hanoi, my personal favorite clock. https://saej.in/post/hanoi/