(Modified) Work Clock

RE: (Modified) Work Clock

Fred27 — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:33:17 GMT

Another project which comes to mind is the various versions of Lord Vetinari's Clock which people have made.

Lord Vetinari also has a strange clock in his waiting-room. While it does keep completely accurate time overall, it sometimes ticks and tocks out of sync (example: "tick, tock ... ticktocktick, tock ...") and occasionally misses a tick or tock altogether, which has the net effect of turning one's brain "into a sort of porridge".

RE: (Modified) Work Clock

hugohu — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 04:13:58 GMT

How could I miss this?

Great project. Like fred said I was also wondering how you could alter time.

Great job!

RE: (Modified) Work Clock

Fred27 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 11:35:33 GMT

A really fun project. It reminds me a little of a clock someone wrote back in the day when I used to code as a contractor on an hourly rate. The clock started at £0.00 (or $0.00 or €0.00 as appropriate) and counted upwards throughout the working day.

I was wondering how someone could alter time for this Project14, but you sort of managed it!

RE: (Modified) Work Clock

phoenixcomm — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:20:25 GMT

[mention:1bc1ed25c74e4385bcbca428cd9ea7e7:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] I have seen clock math before. the problem is to get rid of the Leap Year. So you want to adjust time itself. So it all comes out even.

365*4 +1 = 1461 quarter year days * 60 min = 87660 min for a quarter year

this is a number that is even. So now 87660 min / 4 = 21915 min/ year

so let's see what we need.

21915 /12 = 1826.25 /60 =30.4375 and that what we have now

21915/11 = 1992.2727-> nope

21915 / 10 = 2191.5/10 = 219.15/20=10.9575?

how about a 6-day week?

ok 365/6 nope thats = 60.833. nope

7days x 24hrs = 168 hr/week *60 =*10080min * 60 = 604800sec/week or 86400 sec/day * (365*4) +86400 = 126,230,400 sec in a quater year

so 126,230,400/4yr= 31,557,600 sec year

31,557,600/10 months=3155760 mon/sec in a 10 month year

3155760 / 10 day week/sec 315576

do the math it will work .

~~Cris

RE: (Modified) Work Clock

kmikemoo — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:23:45 GMT

[mention:1bc1ed25c74e4385bcbca428cd9ea7e7:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-5d3c15a3-5f40-4907-931e-07fcf0dcc50f/contentimage_5F00_938.png:16:16] Boss, you've got it all backwards! The clock is supposed to run faster during the work day! Seriously though, I love the creativity. On some days... it really feels like the clock has two time constants. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-5d3c15a3-5f40-4907-931e-07fcf0dcc50f/contentimage_5F00_938.png:16:16] [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-5d3c15a3-5f40-4907-931e-07fcf0dcc50f/contentimage_5F00_11380.png:16:16][View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-5d3c15a3-5f40-4907-931e-07fcf0dcc50f/contentimage_5F00_11380.png:16:16]

RE: (Modified) Work Clock

ajcc — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:22:14 GMT

This is an interesting idea and I'm really curious how the variable length seconds worked out for you so far?

I also noticed your clock counts up to 24:60:60, maybe you could do the test for s > 59 (or s == 60 as its in your code) directly after incrementing the seconds counter instead of waiting until after your variable length one second delay?

If you want more accurate time keeping you could look into using the onboard real time clock for syncing up your clock every so often. If I'm thinking correctly you'd do that every other second during the work day (2/3 seconds -> 3 seconds every two seconds) or seventh second during personal time (7/6 seconds -> 6 seconds every seven seconds)?