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Some of you may know I'm a fan of natural time. I literally run my computer with a local timezone set to solar. Thank goodness XFCE lets me add more than one clock to my panel so I also have civil time.
But I also wanted to keep track of the other kinds of natural time in a single interface. So let's just make everything a clock.
These clock will tell you the time of the day, month, year, all in natural terms for your location. What I like about this verse some more complicated astronomical clocks is each thing being tracked is uses the same visual expression, vs this.
This 2nd version includes estimates on the solar activity cycle, and a few other small details.
These may be better opened in their own tab.
If there is interest, I could write an article on how to create a local solar timezone in Linux using the equation of time to stay up to date. Just let me know.
This is amazing. If I understand it correctly, it seems there is also the appearance of Mercury retrograde. Would be fun to show this to someone who thinks they see Jupiter, Mars or Venus in the night sky, and you can confirm where they should be in their orbits. It's like having a pocket astrolabe. I assume you're using only one latitude (for each set of readings), as one would do for an astrolabe, until the disk is changed.
I don't have anything related to mercury in there currently. It uses the users latitude on longidude based on a location request. That's all on the front end so I'm not getting that data.
Interesting
Neato!
My phone is full of odd clocks that I never use.
Most don't take up much space so I haven't deleted them yet.
I especially like the moon phases, and set/rise schedules.