• by OisinMoran on 6/18/2025, 12:32:50 AM

    If you like weird clocks, I've got a collection of them here [0] which includes two others I've madeβ€”the QR Code Clock (probably my stupidest design of anything to date), and the vague clock (which is always correct and accurate but as it is just a single rotating "6" is only really legible at 6 and 9 o'clock)

    Currently working on my first physical one!

    [0] https://lynkmi.com/oisin/Clocks

  • by hmdai on 6/18/2025, 8:30:03 AM

    I absolutely love this, bonus: I can now read Cuneiform numbers, if I ever need that.

    Suggestion: You can potentially show the Cuneiform time in the url.

    sent at: π’Œ‹:π’Ž™π’›:𒐏𒐗

  • by pulse7 on 6/18/2025, 10:06:41 AM

    Just by watching your clock for 1 minute I learned Cuneiform numbers! Thank you! :)

  • by uncircle on 6/18/2025, 11:46:49 AM

    Nice! This makes me appreciate the improvement roman numerals had over cuneiform: that a symbol isn’t repeated more than three times so it’s easier to read at a glance.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing

    This is why VIII and IX are easier to parse than 𒐆 and 𒐇 (though grouping them by 5 does help)

  • by bobek on 6/18/2025, 6:07:53 PM

    I always liked the esthetics of Wharton studio clocks. There is an OSS implementation at https://github.com/bobek/sdg_wharton_miniclock

  • by OisinMoran on 6/15/2025, 11:51:32 AM

    It seems that of all the numbers (needed here), the symbol for 20 (π’Ž™) is the only one that doesn't render on Android. Very odd. It does seem to be the last used codepoint (U+12399) in the Cuneiform block (U+12000–U+123FF) and they seem to stop rendering from U+1236E (on Android) which leaves 43 symbols un-rendered.

    Anyone any idea why that might be?

    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_(Unicode_block) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_Numbers_and_Punctuat...

    sent at π’Œ‹π’–:𒐐𒐕:π’Œ‹π’—

  • by sonorous_sub on 6/16/2025, 10:03:56 AM

    The visual appeal is undeniable ;)

  • by furstenheim on 6/18/2025, 10:34:05 AM

    Sumertime! Great naming choice!!

  • by adornKey on 6/18/2025, 8:57:32 AM

    Interesting, that it's all standard base-10. A Number system based on 12 could have been a good fit for a base-60 time.

    Babylonians/Sumerians invented base-60, and didn't have special characters for 10, 11 (and maybe 12)? Really?