For iPhone + iPod touch

iPhone Screenshot

Features

  • Surface time in local, UTC (GMT), and KI time zones
  • Built-in data gives you an estimated prediction, your own calibration can make it accurate to a few seconds
  • Can alert you a specified time in advance of a portal
  • Drag the time scale to any date in the future or past
  • Works in portrait or landscape orientation
  • Share calibration data with Pod Clock for Mac or PC using the built-in web interface
  • Full VoiceOver accessibility

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Contribute

Translate Zik Clock into your own language or improve existing translations on GULP.

Release Notes

1.5, 2014-01-17

  • Support for the 4-inch display of iPhone 5 and newer
  • Spanish, Dutch, and Italian localization, updates to Russian
  • Some internal updates for iOS 6
  • Fixed unresponsive controls after enabling VoiceOver while on the main screen

1.4, 2013-01-15

  • Adjusted KI time scale to corrected daylight saving time transitions
  • Norwegian and Russian localization, updates to French and Swedish
  • Some internal updates for iOS 5
  • This will be the last version to support iPhone 3G, iPod touch 2nd generation, and older devices (iOS 4.2 and below)

1.3, 2011-09-03

  • High-resolution graphics on retina display devices
  • Accessibility for visually impaired users using VoiceOver
  • French and Swedish localization

1.2, 2010-10-26

  • Added portal alerts on iOS 4.
  • Support multitasking on iOS 4.
  • Added “Today” button to return you to the current time.
  • Updated built-in estimates from recent data.
  • Adjusted KI time scale to follow old DST rules indefinitely.
  • Fixed extremely fast scrolling of the timeline after lifting the finger in certain circumstances.

1.1, 2010-04-23

  • Renamed from Pod Clock to Zik Clock at Apple’s request (“Zik” is D’ni for “Pod”).
  • Updated built-in estimates for MO:ULagain. The predictions may still be off by a few minutes though – this is deliberate! Do your own calibration or share calibration points with other explorers to make it more accurate!
  • Corrected KI time scale since the KI still follows old DST rules.
  • Better combination of observations and built-in estimates when there are not enough observations to base everything on them. Adding the first observation will now shift all predictions, not just those for the observed pod.

1.0, 2009-12-17

  • Initial release.

For Mac + PC

Mac Screenshot

Features

  • Cross-platform offline application
  • Surface time in local, UTC (GMT), and KI time zones
  • Built-in data gives you an estimated prediction, your own calibration can make it accurate to a few seconds
  • Can alert you a specified time in advance of a portal
  • Drag the time scale to any date in the future or past

Download

Pod Clock 1.4.1 for Mac runs on Mac OS X 10.4 or newer
Pod Clock 1.4 for Windows self-contained installer provided by Darrigansource code available
Pod Clock 1.4 as a plain Python script for any platform – requires Python ≥ 2.3 and wxPython ≥ 2.5.3

Release Notes

1.4.1, 2010-04-12

  • Mac: Fixed failure to launch on Mac OS X 10.6.

1.4, 2010-03-28

  • Updated built-in estimates for MO:ULagain. The predictions may still be off by a few minutes though – this is deliberate! Do your own calibration or share calibration points with other explorers to make it more accurate!
  • Better combination of observations and built-in estimates when there are not enough observations to base everything on them. Adding the first observation will now shift all predictions, not just those for the observed pod.
  • Calibration files with fractional seconds, as produced by the iPhone version, can now be loaded.
  • Windows: Brand new installer architecture fixes app dependencies and allows for upgrading past v1.4 without uninstalling.

1.3.1, 2008-04-04

  • fixed KI time scale showing a wrong date when the left edge of the scale was between 0 and 7 UTC
  • adjusted the KI time scale assuming that it will switch to daylight saving time on Sun April 6, in accordance with the US DST rules from before 2005
  • updated built-in estimates from recent data

1.3, 2008-03-09

  • improved numerical precision, particularly for the error estimates
  • updated built-in estimates from recent data and removed the artificial error - predictions should be accurate to a few seconds right now
  • adjusted the KI time scale to never again switch to DST, since it hasn't switched today

1.2.1, 2007-11-01

  • adjusted the KI time scale which has reverted to standard time a week earlier than expected

1.2, 2007-10-01

  • DST transitions should now display correctly on the time scale (for regions where they happen on a full hour)
  • KI time now correctly follows US/Mountain DST rules, not local ones
  • added 12 hour clock option

1.1, 2007-08-19

  • added estimation of prediction accuracy

1.0.1, 2007-08-01

  • fixed predictions not updating on calibration changes when no pod had more than one calibration point
  • added clarification to calibration window
  • source distribution now includes Windows icon

Have questions, suggestions, bug reports, need help? Contact me by e-mail at cwalther@gmx.ch or send a PM to Christian Walther on any of the Uru forums I am registered on (e.g. Myst Online).

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