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Background transpa- rency is adjustable
A date label and a Sky Strip(shows the position of the sun in the sky) can be attached. Horizontal row of eight digital clocks:
Another example configuration with country flags and "gloss" effect attached (24 hour time format) - only city and time labels
City Selector
Clock Designer
Settings
Time Zone Converter
Feed Reader
Sticky Notes
Weather Report
Alarm Center
Alarm List
Alarm Popup
Alarms can be silent, with sound or read aloud (your message is read by a naturally sounding computer voice); alarms can be edited before and after the scheduled time.
Examples
One-time Alarm - Set an alarm for tomorrow 3 PM New Delhi time (call someone there) - the time zones are automatically converted
Count-down Alarm - Set a reminder in 5 minutes or half an hour..., to get something done in the kitchen
Hourly Alarm - Set a reminder every hour (plus x minutes, if you like) or, for instance, each day at a certain time (take your medicine)
Weekly Alarm - Set a reminder each Monday...Friday at 5 PM (finish work) or each Sunday 7 PM (watch a TV show)
Monthly Alarm - Set a reminder each 1st of the month (or each last day of the month in reverse mode), to do some important job
Annual Alarm - Set a reminder at a specific date each year, for instance a birthday (plus an optional warning 1..10 days before)
Periodic Alarms - Set an alarm every half hour, every 10 minutes etc (any interval 5 seconds .. 24 hours) - can be limited to 2..100 runs
5.51 - Fixed a small bug: office hours for new clocks are now applied instantly and not only on the next full minute.
New: the sunrise and sunset times are now displayed in the tooltip (like they were in version 4), plus some other small improvements.
5.5 - Improvement: font size for AM/PM label and Offset label can now be changed (can improve layout when long city names are in use, causing the font size of these lables to be too small in proportion to the other labels).
Bug fixes: an undocked clock is now correctly set to the default Ctrl Mode "Hide with other Clocks" and the topmost mode of the main window is not being restored instantly, which could make the undocked clock inaccessible at first.
Fixed a bug in the design section: after closing the dialog without pressing "Apply", design changes would also be applied to a clock (was only visible after a program restart).
5.49 - Added an option to temporarily deactivate all upcoming alarms and chimes in the Alarm Center.
Added a confirmation dialog to the "Click through" menu item in the tray icon context menu.
Corrected time zones for Ecuador and Colombia.
Fixed a bug in the alarm center for periodic alarms and minor design changes.
5.48 - The chime sound and the "speak the time" function can now be limited to work only within a defined time span.
The computer voice can now be selected by the user, separately for the "speak the time" function and the alarms, if "Speak Text" is enabled.
Fixed a bug in the alarm center: an alarm could be put into the alarm popup cue repeatedly, instead of one time only. Several minor enhancements.
5.47 - Added a (separate) volume knob to the "Speak the time" function in the Alarm Center, also volume changes for the chime sounds can now be monitored during playback.
Fixed a bug that let the program crash if the Weather Report was aborted before a weather feed was loaded. Some minor bug fixes and enhancements.
5.46 - Fixed bugs in the Alarm Center: a playing (long) sound file is now stopped when alarm popup is closed.
Passed alarms that are edited and put back on schedule will now fire correctly. Time picker in the "Count down" alarm section now shows correct time format.
In the Weather section: When the "Show all Cities" checkbox is toggled, the current city remains selected and will not be replaced by the first city in the list anymore.
Fixed a bug in the "Solar noon" function, which could cause a .Net exception for specific cities (Tuvalu), when the edit dialog was opened.
Edit dialog icon is not showed in the taskbar anymore.
5.45 - Changed weather report display: night symbols are now only showed for the current day (if target city has night time), not for all days of the forecast.
Patched the bug fix of version 5.44 - now it should work in any case, even on old installations (do not import an old city file after the update).
5.44 - Fixed a bug: clocks supposed to show user defined cities could show other cities instead.
Minor improvements: when the "Select City" tab is left without applying the selected city, a message box pops up to confirm. Balloon tip in taskbar is now hidden for registered users.
In the "Presets" selector, the zero selection selects the original design now. Added and changed some design presets. Confirmation on docking a single clock.
5.43 - Last selected cities (also the check state of "Show all Cities") in the Time Zone Calculator are now saved and restored, also added "Find City" buttons to that form; labels now have rounded corners.
Updated changed country flag for Libya. Added "Find City" button to the weather report dialog; Minor design fixes.
5.42 - Fixed a few small bugs in the Transitions table and the Time Zones table and generally for the display of daylight saving information, especially for countries that do not apply it anymore (Russian Federation, Morocco...).
Added new functionality to the Transitions table: clicking a time zone switches to the rule details on the Time Zones table.
Added "Speak the Time" for an interval of every half hour. Weather report always shows English weekdays now.
5.41 - Fixed a bug with the auto size in the "Live Changes" slider area. Added the time of last observation for the weather report (converted to local time). Optimized the "Topmost" function (did't work on some PCs).
5.4 - Added an online weather report feature (powered by worldweatheronline.com) for the current day and the next four days, for every city or (if city is not included) for every location.
Fixed the Transitions table / tooltip - the dates and times of the next daylight saving transitions are now displayed correctly.
5.33 - Fixed a bug in the spoken time function: 12 PM was spoken as 12 AM. Added a manual "Check for Update" link to the "Info about..." dialog.
5.32 - Added new functionality to Sticky Notes: they can now be minimized to the title bar with one mouse click and unfolded again.
Also added options for transparency, "Opaque on Mouse Over" (if transparent) and "Expand on Mouse Hover".
The info bubble in the tray area disappears after 5 seconds now, regardless of any mouse actions. Window position and size of feed reader is now saved and restored.
Fixed a few minor bugs. Added some new, pleasant sounds to the sound library and removed some old, ugly ones.
5.31 - Improved the Sticky Notes function: Sticky Notes can now be resized to only the title bar and they contain a scrollbar, if the content does not fit the window. Added new countries: Aruba and Sint Maarten. Fixed small bugs in the Select City module (Edit / Delete).
5.3 - Added "Sticky Notes" as a new program module. Select "Sticky Note" from the menu, to add a new note; size, colors, font and topmost mode can be configured.
Fixed small bugs in the alarm center and in the "check for new version" module.
5.2 - Fixed major bugs: applying a design preset could overwrite the selected city and the office hours settings and dock a single clock to the main window. Changed window positions were not always saved on program shutdown. Added "sweep second" to the settings again (use carefully). Added the "Countries", "Time Zones" and "Transitions" tabs to the time zone calculator, as in the settings dialog.
5.1 - Added a manual atomic time (NIST) server check and adjust function in the settings. Fixed the tray icon menu bug (clicking elsewhere now closes it).
Added a "balloon popup", which appears for a few seconds after program startup in the bottom right corner.
5.04 - Fixed bugs in the alarm center: regular alarms did not work properly, weekly alarms could not be set to a specific time.
Sky strip is now wider and darker, to make it easier to read. Program updates are now overwriting the city list and the design preset list of users, without interfering with any user-defined cities or presets. Updated time zone info for Guatemala.
5.03 - Fixed bugs in the "out-of-office dimmer" function and the design presets section.
5.02 - Office hours can now be set for several cities at the same time. Added hotkey (Ctrl+F) to the "Find City" button.
Renamed the "Columns" trackbar to "Layout". Updated help file, some minor fixes.
5.01 - Fixed the "click-through" function, fixed the UTC offset labels (reversed +/-), the calculation intensive tables in the settings are now computed in the background.
Raised limit for clocks in a row from 10 to 20. Changed second hand movement from instant jumping to a real (although fast, to keep processor load low) animation.
5.0 - Written from scratch, using the latest Microsoft technology (.NET 4 / WPF).
LOTS of improvements, the most important one might be: updating the time zone / daylight saving information is done by Microsoft now (via Microsoft Update).
For all changes, see the included help file. Enjoy!
4.85 - Fixed a bug in the alarm clock: one-time alarms could go off repeatedly. Updated daylight savings information for 2011. Minor improvements. Download version 4.85, if version 5 does not work for you
4.84 - Enhancements and bugfixes: Changes in the Time Format and Appearance sections can now be enabled or disabled separately, so changes made to a single clock are not overridden accidentally. Also city changes to one clock do not affect the Design section anymore. Fixed a layout bug in the preview clock (clock face was not centered when the time format had changed). Corrected the flag for the UK.
4.83 - Fixed a layout bug with the minute marks, changed the office hour shadow default from level 3 to 10.
4.82 - Improved tolerance for imported settings files (from previous versions or with invalid fonts and files); Corrected clock face positioning when a very small size was set; Added some hints to guide new users about adding and editing clocks.
4.81 - Fixed a bug in the export / import function.
4.8 - Alarms can now be set for each city (time zone), not just for the local time zone and the maximum is now 20 alarms instead of 10. Several minor enhancements.
4.7 - The "Office Time" function in the settings can now be set for each city separately instead of just globally.
The range for the office time is now much wider. The office hours are now displayed in the mouse-over tooltip, when the "Out-of-Office Shadow" function is activated.
The "24 Hours" checkbox in the settings dialog and the checkbox with the same name in the city edit dialog now operate on the same function
(in previous versions the checkbox in the city edit dialog only worked on the clock time format, while the checkbox in the settings dialog was operating on the displayed time in the additional functions only).
The two options "Columns" and "Size" are now present in the settings dialog also, not only in the "Global" section of the "Edit Clock" dialog. Some minor tweaks.
4.6 - Double-clicking the desktop icon now shows or hides the program window instead of just showing an alert, when the program has already been launched. A registered installation does not check for activation on program startup any more (caused problems for some users), but later, on user interaction instead. Fixed a bug: a new design showed up correctly (during the "fading" phase) only after a program restart. The program directory is no longer used for the backup xml files during the installation phase; this could cause an accessibility issue on Windows 7. Implemented new daylight saving rules for Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria and Iran. New "Getting started" dialog, which can also be called later from the menu. Some minor tweaks.
4.55 - Limit of clocks in one row is now 20 instead of 10. Font size can now be changed up to 40 instead of 20.
Pressing "Apply" in the "Sort Clocks" tab does not affect clock design anymore. Fixed activation issues on some systems.
4.54 - Fixed (removed) daylight saving info for Perth, Western Australia
4.53 - Fixed settings for Argentina (no more daylight saving). Time zone entries without real coordinates do not show up in the world map anymore. Fixed update of city list and daylight saving list.
4.52 - Bug fix: when "Window Frame" was enabled, it did not show up after a program restart. Added a warning dialog when sliding seconds are enabled.
4.51 - Bug fix for 4.50: city change did not work anymore. Returned to "jumping second" as the default and added warning dialog, when the size of the interface exceeds a certain limit, while sliding seconds are enabled.
4.5 - Major update with new features, improvements and bug fixes: optional "sliding" instead of jumping second hand (clock is updated 10 times/second); Minute hand is now always moving gradually and does not jump on a full minute; Optional minute dash marks (new default) and hour dash marks (can be turned into the old dot marks); Hands are now thinner and show the usual layer pattern: hour, minute second (from bottom to top); Improved resource handling: graphics resources are shared between clocks, saving memory; New program and tray icon. Bug fixes in the preview section: preview clock is correctly resized and realigned when time format is changed; Leading zero is now correctly displayed on the preview clock. Daylight saving information was updated.
4.47 - Bugfix: version info is now correctly updated on Vista systems
4.46 - Fixed a layout bug, which showed up in analog mode, when "hide on startup" was deactivated. Tweaked preview and changed some default settings
4.45 - Fixed a bug which occurred, when a limited user installed the program: versioninfo.xml was missing. Also improved clean-up when program is still running on uninstallation. A "clean tool" is now available, to remove any remaining shortcuts, registry entries and data folders after an uninstallation on a limited user account.
4.44 - Fixed a start-up issue; some minor cosmetic changes
4.43 - Improved start-up behaviour: Window shows up only after the interface is being loaded
4.42 - Fixed a layout bug, which showed up on a one-column small analog clock interface; another small correction on the am/pm indicator position; improvement on the "stick to border" function
4.41 - Added "Apply" button in settings dialog; Removed "current version" limitation in import function; Refinements in positioning of offset time and am/pm indicator on clock faces; Removed the "Initializing..." message
4.4 - Important bugfix: on daylight saving changes, the clocks will switch precisely at the correct hour now. Also fixed related bugs in the time zone calculator.
4.39 - Some minor tweaks: Improved stability when trying to import an invalid settings file; Function "all alarms off" in alarm dialog; Link to online version history in update dialog; Added "West Coast" and "East Coast" to city list; Updated DST list (Israel)
4.38 - Improved stability and self-repair after crashing; odd numbers can be entered as clock size again
4.37 - Fixed offset info for cities having an odd local time offset. Fixed a bug causing the city font size to decrease after a restart.
4.36 - Fixed a bug in the clock tool tip (time offset)
4.35 - Fixed compatibility with Windows 98/Me
4.34 - Fixed auto-update function and check for update once a month is now default
4.33 - Several bug fixes and improvements: cities that are currently used cannot be deleted anymore (which caused a crash before); disabled context menu for preview clock; removed flicker on clock start-up; fixed an issue with the auto-start; fixed "reverse" issue with design preset and office hour time pickers; increased time range for office hours; added some new design presets
4.32 - Reduced height of the edit dialog for use on netbooks with small display sizes. Bug fixes: On Windows XP with Service Pack 3, the "hide after start-up" feature did not work; now fixed. On start-up, the message "Trial period is over" appeared sometimes, although the program was registered.
4.31 - Updated flag for Rwanda; fixed a small bug (clock resizing on start-up)
4.3 - Added optional "Local Time Offset" and DST (*) indicator in the upper left corner of each (analog) clock. Added a "Click through" option to the settings dialog: window will ignore mouse then.
Opaque on mouse-over is now optional, when using semi-transparency. Added a "Sort Clocks" tab to the Edit dialog, where you can manually sort the clocks by drag and drop or sort by time zones or city names.
Changed hotkey for "Add City" (now "New City") to Ctrl + N. If new cities have been added by a user, they are used by a new installation and not overwritten any more.
In the Alarm Clock dialog, alarms can be scrolled into view by clicking the alarm ID on the bottom.
4.2 - You can now set up 10 instead of just 3 alarms, which can not only be one-time or every day, but also every weekday (Monday - Friday), every Monday, every Tuesday and so on.
4.1 - Added sliders to the time zone converter, so you can now temporarily adjust the time of all clocks within a +/- 12 hours time span (5 minute grid), so you can actually and intuitively see the time in other cities at any selected time;
You can now "gray out" clocks that are outside a configurable "out of office" time span (default is 9 AM until 5 PM); Improved font selectors
4.02 - Fixed a minor clipping bug in the analog clock display; Updated the help file
4.01 - Improved the performance when enumerating fonts for the settings dialog; fonts are now collected in a background thread
4.0 - Major update: fonts can now be changed, as well as the font size. Settings import does not require manual restart anymore. Several improvements and bug fixes.
3.42 - Fixed a bug, which crashed the program during startup sometimes
3.41 - Fixed bugs in the chime and the time synch. Added a 24-hour checkbox to the settings dialog, for the default time format of sunrise/sunset and the time format inside calculator and alarm clock dialogs.
3.4 - Added optional auto-synch with atomic (internet) time every day or every hour and auto-update. Added more time servers and you can use a custom server. Moved the update and synch functions from the help dialog to the settings.
3.3 - Added global hotkeys for hide/show and monitor(s) power off; bugfixes in the calendar and the export function.
3.25 - When window is set to semi-transparency, mouse-over makes it switch to opaque temporarily.
3.24 - Added a calendar notes section with reminder for annualy recurring events, like birthdays.
3.23 - Chime can now be switched to a single sound in the settings dialog.
3.22 - Added time comparison table in time zone converter. Fixed a flickering bug, which occurred on some machines.
3.21 - Memory usage optimizations, added hotkeys for "Find" and "Add" (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+A) in the configuration dialog.
3.2 - Settings can now be exported to a file for backup and transfer. Sound files can be not only wav now, but also mp3 (new default), wma and mid. Added a "Find City" function, a volume knob for the chime volume and many named time zones to the city list.
3.1 - Custom time format can be in a different language than the system language now. Clock settings dialog remembers its position. Improved reliability of "stick to border" and clock autosize.
3.0 - Major update: configuration dialog has Apply/Close buttons now instead of OK/Cancel. Added user-configurable time format, clock hand shadow and window semi-transparency (optional).
Cities are now automatically sorted, according to time zone (optional). After adding a city, the configuration dialog opens itself.
New registration process with online activation (old users can get a free update key). Many new design presets. A design preset stays selected in the preset-selector when configuration dialog is re-opened.
Some cosmetic improvements. Fixed time zone for Venezuela.
2.16 - Fixed daylight saving settings for Argentina, Israel, Morocco and Pakistan.
2.15 - The fading animation (when you show/hide the program window) can now be deactivated in the general settings
2.14 - Corrected daylight saving for Mexico (differs from the US now)
2.13 - Several minor mainly cosmetic improvements
2.12 - Updated the installer program to download the .Net framework 2.0, if not present. Added the capitals of Australia and New Zealand as default cities.
2.11 - Fixed a small bug - selecting certain colors could cause an exception
2.1 - The feed reader was improved in terms of design and usability, also the included feed list was enhanced. The reader now always displays the first feed in the list first, if possible. Some other small improvements.
2.0 - The new version includes a powerful RSS/Atom feed reader application. This significant new feature, along with the maturing time of more than one year justifies a version number jump.
1.43 - Updated the flag of Georgia
1.42 - Added a "stick to screen border" feature, which works also in multiple screen environments. Fixed a few small bugs in the preview section.
1.41 - There were some minor updates in the city list and in the daylight saving rule list. The main program was not altered.
1.4 - Updates do not erase user settings any more. Country flags in digital mode, second hand (on analog clock) and leading zero (on digital clock) can be deactivated. Design preview shows analog only and digital only mode. Minor improvements and bug fixes.
1.32 - Button to switch East / West added in the configuraton dialog, tool tip bug fixed
1.31 - Info about Daylight Savings added in Tooltip, some minor improvements, borderless mode is now the default.
1.3 - Optional sound signals on the full hour and on the quarter (church bell style) plus several usability improvements. Some of the design presets now include background colors.
1.21 - Fixed a minor bug: resizing the clocks failed under certain conditions
1.2 - The window border can be removed now, the background can have a custom color. The "artificial sky" can be mirrored horizontally, for users on the southern hemisphere. Added a "Settings" dialog. Fixed a memory leak and a bug in the "always on top" feature.
1.1 - Changes in the digital clock date/time formatting, bug fixes
1.09 - Added symbolic representation of time zones in the world map; cosmetic design changes
1.08 - Improved quality of world maps, fixed a bug in the configuration dialog, which failed to show up under certain conditions
1.07 - Added Daylight Saving Time to Perth, Western Australia. Flags on clocks as default. Added flag of Western Sahara
1.06 - Fixed a bug in the city list, flags on clockfaces resize better with the clocks, no favorites are selected by default, always on top state is saved to the registry, city edit now only with right-click on list, sorting is now correct
1.05 - Fixed Lisbon, Portugal UTC offset, added antialiasing to flags on clock faces, message box on favorites selection
1.04 - Fixed a bug in the internet time synch, added more time servers
1.03 - Fixed a bug in the design dialog, optimizations in the design dialog and in the web updater