by OisinMoran on 6/18/2025, 12:32:50 AM
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:ππ:ππ
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 isnβt repeated more than three times so itβs easier to read at a glance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing
This is why VIII and IX are easier to parse than π and π (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) 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+12000βU+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 ππ:ππ:ππ
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?
If you like weird clocks, I've got a collection of them here [0] which includes two others I've madeβthe 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