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
| 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
- ████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ 50.0%
- WEEK
- ████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ 50.0%
- 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 · ** ** ** **
DECAY
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- LIGHT-DISTANCE
- 86.572 AU · 43200 light-seconds since midnight
- PRIME SECOND
- 1768478400 = 2^6 * 3^3 * 5^2 * 13 * 47 * 67
MORSE
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FIBONACCI
1 1 2 3 5 [R] [R] [R] [R] [R] 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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