Clocks

Different ways to read the time. The featured tiles run live: two families, a dial of words and a grid of words, each switchable between plain language and the International Phonetic Alphabet, alongside a few standouts. Everything below is an experiment.

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Dial Hour and minute words around a clock face, in twelve languages. Switch to IPA for the spoken time in phonemes.

Word Clock A letter grid that lights up to spell the time, in nine languages. Switch to IPA for the same grid in phonemes.

Rings Year Ten concentric rings, from seconds out to the year. All of them ticking at once.

Collage Ransom A cut-and-paste ransom note that demands the current time. Clock's ticking, buddy.

ASCII ASCII World Clock A globe, a clock, and nostalgia.

Base two Binary Six columns of 8-4-2-1 dots spell the time; the lit dots in each column sum to the digit beneath it.

Experimental

Other ways to tell time, parked here for now. Click through to try any of them full screen.