Sunclock 

Developer Gergely Gáti
Date Added May 9, 2008
Type Free full version
Platforms Java ME
Rating
Connectivity Internet not required
Website Sunclock website
Sunclock

Description by Gergely Gáti

Sunclock is a J2ME Midlet that displays a map of the Earth and indicates the illuminated portion of the globe by drawing sunlit areas dark on light, night areas as light on dark. In addition to providing local time for the default timezone, it also displays up to four additional cities on the map with the local times. The map is updated every minute to follow the movement of the earth.

Using the Setup menu you can choose the cities according to your interest. You can give the DST rules for the chosen city. If you have internet access on your handset you should search the city using the "Search" menu and the remote service will find the proper DST rule settings for you. Otherwise you should use the provided online DST rule search service on the top right corner of this page. You have to specify the correct timezone values relative from GMT (for example +5.5hours will appear as 530) and the integer WGS-84 coordinates multiplied by ten (N14.7432 will be lat: 147) of the cities, to display them on the map. Thus most of the current phones do not support the timezone settings, the local time will be calculated based on the Main City setup and the internal phone clock will be interpreted as a timezone corrected local time value according to the Main City timezone selection.

Reviews and Comments

photon / RIM BlackBerry 8100 (Pearl) / February 7, 2009

very cute and clean. very weird menus (for BB) i cannot change the time format there is no "Save"? was able to switch one of the existing cities to be the main one, but it's just not intuitive menus for my phone. still it's a total keeper and i'll figure out how to change prefs. thanks

ManiX2 / Nokia E51 / September 26, 2008

Nice app!