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  TimTheTinker
  It looks like the "golden hour" may be hardcoded as the hour before sunset. May I suggest updating it to be based on the sun's position in the sky?In high-northern and low-southern latitudes, the sun can stay close to the horizon for long stretches of the day depending on the season. For example, in Iceland in parts of the spring and fall, the golden hour lasts for most of the day - amazing for photography and just enjoying the scenery.
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  mourner
  Author of suncalc (the JS library behind the sun calculations) here — happy to see such a nice application of it! Heads up if the author's reading this — I recently released a major overhaul of the library that makes it a lot more precise: https://github.com/mourner/suncalc
• donohoe
  Unrelated but a little related (semi-shameless plug?)- I made a small weather web-app that also plotted daylight hours as a secondary feature.Its really weather over the next 12 hours on the primary ring, and day/night transition on the inner.https://donohoe.dev/weather/
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  zamadatix
  I love it. It'd be nice if I could click points on a map and see the difference to my local one as well. Or in the calendar view if it'd show a copy of the clock (i.e. coloring not current hand positions) for the time I'm hovered over.
• fer
  Neat. One of my favourite sites, which also shows daylight, is WeatherSpark[0], obviously focused on weather and it allows you to compare locations based on yearly rainfall, cloud cover, muggy conditions, all sorts of stuff. Always check it when going on vacation or relocating.[0] https://weatherspark.com/
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  momentmaker
  Also made something like this called Sun Path which tracks where the sun is through centuries and how the path deviates ever so slowly.Plus there are all the equinoxes and solstices.https://pilgrimapp.org/sunpath/
• anon
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  bpev
  Been using https://sundial.page recently for weather
• seanalltogether
  I've been wanting to build this exact clock for awhile now. My feature request would be to include a timeline at the bottom of the page that I can scroll back and forth through days of the year to see everything shift.
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  dvh
  Let me choose location manually.
• Gecko4072
  This is the author's account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=perilunar
• tizio13
  This is great. Reminds me of the Solar Dial watch face on my Apple Watch.
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  rhema
  https://editor.p5js.org/rhemalinder/full/im3tyPBDW - I made this one for myself and it's pretty similar.I have this hard-coded to south dakota, but it looks like this and I made it a while ago. Same idea, except I turn it such that "solar noon" is at the top.Think 12 noon is really "high noon" or solar noon? Nope, not unless you are in the center of a timezone!
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  jasonincanada
  It must be clock-making time... I built a 24-hour clock a few days ago but in base-12 and with 72 seconds per minute (to reuse the outer 24-hour dial, with 3 subdivisions to make it closer to the normal second)https://jasonincanada.github.io/24-hour-base-12-clock.html#w...
• dilap
  This is neat! Would love the ability to make "true noon" be at the top of the clock, instead of 12.
• svennidal
  Nice. I made my solar clock here: svennidal.is/solarclockI'm currently in Iceland and I've been using my clock as my main clock since the Icelandic clock is set to be almost one and half hour to early. I've never really shared it so that is why it's just hardcoded to my location haha.
• Arshwaraich
  Neat! I made something similar to better visualize timezones based off the day/night cycle:https://apps.apple.com/in/app/sun-timezone/id6760567372
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  vesinisa
  Love it!One weird thing: the author of this clock/calendar portrays the year rotating clockwise (click on the calendar icon in top left to see the "annual" calendar): January in 12 to 1 o'clock, February in 1 to 2 o'clock, etc. and December in 11 to 12 o'clock.In a poll of some close friends recently, we found out that most of us (>80% including myself) had always mentalized the year rotating counter-clockwise (starting from January at 12 to 11 o'clock, Februay at 10 to 11 o'clock etc. and finally December in 1 to 12 o'clock.)Bizarely none of us could explain why we had such weird anti-clockwise mental image of the annual cycle, but all who viusalized the year running counter-clockwise said they had done so for as long as they could remember.
• karmakaze
  I would prefer if it showed a regular 12 hours clock face and show the upcoming sunrise or sunset, or two faces one for each.
• sheept
  It'd be neat if you could pan a slider through the year to see the sunrise sunset times change
• mannanj
  Nice. I've been making a version of this that I submitted to ycombinator, testing the thesis "If we schedule our life around the sun including afternoon naps" we perform better.Check it out and give me feedback. It has a long ways to go.https://sunsignal.app
• nipunaeka89
  nice one
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  Razengan
  Man fuck Apple for not allowing custom Apple Watch faces >:(Always the crippled operating system limiting the potential of their amazing hardware