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# Strange Clocks

A live analogue face leads, and 38 text faces follow in six families: epoch & calendar (9), alternative time systems (5), astronomical (4), world ring (1), progress (9), the strange shelf (10). Everything is computed in your browser from your own clock, with no network, no location and nothing logged.

Below is every face rendered at one fixed instant, 2026-01-15 12:00:00 UTC, because a page built once cannot read your clock. With JavaScript on, the same faces run live off your browser's clock and its timezone.

## EPOCH & CALENDAR

the Unix second and the calendar built on it

TERMINAL
  2026-01-15 12:00:00 UTC+00:00 DAY 15 / 365
EPOCH
  1768478400 0x6968d6c0 1768478400000ms
EPOCH BINARY
  1101001011010001101011011000000
BINARY (BCD)
  0001 0010 : 0000 0000 : 0000 0000
BINARY (PURE)
  01100 : 000000 : 000000
WORD
  IT IS TWELVE O'CLOCK
ISO WEEK
  2026-W03-4 ordinal 2026-015
JULIAN DAY
  JD 2461056.00000 MJD 61055.50000
2038
  T-379005247 s · 4386 d 15:14:07 to 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC

## ALTERNATIVE TIME SYSTEMS

other ways of dividing the same day

HEXADECIMAL
  0C:00:00
DECIMAL
  5:00:00
BEAT
  @541
DOZENAL
  10:00:00
KILOSECOND
  43.200 ks of 86.400 ks

## ASTRONOMICAL

clocks that other bodies keep

SIDEREAL
  19:39:48 GMST
MARS SOL
  MSD 54048.14672 MTC 03:31:16
MOON
  WANING CRESCENT age 26.42 d · 11% lit

### ORRERY

    Mercury  L  294.5°   a  0.387 AU
    Venus    L  299.8°   a  0.723 AU
    Earth    L  114.6°   a  1.000 AU
    Mars     L  299.5°   a  1.524 AU
    Jupiter  L  104.6°   a  5.203 AU
    Saturn   L    8.3°   a  9.537 AU
    Uranus   L   64.8°   a 19.189 AU
    Neptune  L    1.8°   a 30.070 AU

## WORLD RING

twelve cities, on their own real timezone rules

### WORLD RING

The world ring, as text
City | Zone | Local | Offset
--- | --- | --- | ---
Honolulu | Pacific/Honolulu | 02:00:00 | UTC-10:00
Los Angeles | America/Los_Angeles | 04:00:00 | UTC-08:00
New York | America/New_York | 07:00:00 | UTC-05:00
São Paulo | America/Sao_Paulo | 09:00:00 | UTC-03:00
London | Europe/London | 12:00:00 | UTC+00:00
Lagos | Africa/Lagos | 13:00:00 | UTC+01:00
Istanbul | Europe/Istanbul | 15:00:00 | UTC+03:00
Kolkata | Asia/Kolkata | 17:30:00 | UTC+05:30
Kathmandu | Asia/Kathmandu | 17:45:00 | UTC+05:45
Shanghai | Asia/Shanghai | 20:00:00 | UTC+08:00
Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 21:00:00 | UTC+09:00
Auckland | Pacific/Auckland | 01:00:00 | UTC+13:00

## PROGRESS

how far through, from the day to the millennium, then how long since

DAY
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WEEK
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MONTH
  ███████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 46.8%
YEAR
  ███████████████████████░ 4.0% burnt · 96.0% left
DECADE
  ██████████████░░░░░░░░░░ 60.4%
CENTURY
  ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 26.0%
MILLENNIUM
  █░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 2.6%
CIVILIZATION
  10 millennia 0 centuries 26 yr · ~10,026 yr since ~8000 BCE
SPECIES
  302 millennia 0 centuries 26 yr · ~302,026 yr since ~300,000 BCE

## THE STRANGE SHELF

the strange ones

SHIP'S BELL
  Afternoon watch · 8 bells · ** ** ** **

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    181 of 256 atoms  ·  half-life 1 day

LIGHT-DISTANCE
  86.572 AU · 43200 light-seconds since midnight
PRIME SECOND
  1768478400 = 2^6 * 3^3 * 5^2 * 13 * 47 * 67

### MORSE

    12:00
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### FIBONACCI

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    hour 12  ·  00 min  ·  R hour  G minutes  B both

### SPLITS

     SPLIT  CUM d      Δ vs even
    >Jan      31 d   +0.58 d
     Feb      59 d   -1.83 d
     Mar      90 d   -1.25 d
     Apr     120 d   -1.67 d
     May     151 d   -1.08 d
     Jun     181 d   -1.50 d
     Jul     212 d   -0.92 d
     Aug     243 d   -0.33 d
     Sep     273 d   -0.75 d
     Oct     304 d   -0.17 d
     Nov     334 d   -0.58 d
     Dec     365 d   +0.00 d

UNIVERSE
  13,787,000,056.039 698 836 years since the Big Bang
GEOLOGIC
  Phanerozoic · Cenozoic · Quaternary · Holocene · Meghalayan. You are here, 11,776 yr into the Holocene

### CANDLE

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