Web Clocks

Bloomsday Clock Bloomsday hour by hour, the real day mapped onto Joyce's 18 episodes at their schema hours, with the time retold in each episode's own style. Finnegans Wake A river dial for Finnegans Wake, Joyce's riverrun turning once a day through Vico's four ages, where the last word flows into the first at dawn. The Waste Land Clock Eliot's five sections as a torn collage of the poem's own hours, from the stroke of nine and the hot water at ten to the violet hour and closing time. Mrs Dalloway Clock Big Ben strikes and its leaden circles spread across 1923 London, handing the day from Clarissa to Septimus to Peter Walsh as each ring reaches them. À la recherche du temps perdu Proust's seven volumes laid across one day with a ribbon bookmark, from going to bed early at midnight to Time Regained, as the same minute on earlier days returns. The Sound and the Fury Four sections, four clocks: Benjy's scattered digits, Quentin's handless watch still ticking, Jason's cotton ticker, and Dilsey reading true time from a one-hand clock. Snow Country Night train window from Kawabata's opening, where the time floats as a faint reflection while snowfields, cedars and distant lamps slide past behind the glass. The Magic Mountain One day is one reading of Mann's novel, seven chapters on a dial where time speeds up, while a thermometer keeps the Berghof's four seven-minute measurements.

The Metamorphosis The time read from the alarm clock on Gregor's chest of drawers, seen from his back and then the floor, across a day mapped onto the novella's three parts. The Trial Kafka's Der Process as a court form: the day runs from the arrest at eight to the end at nine, and the time arrives by numbered amendment. The Stranger A day under the Algerian sun: glare and heat shimmer climb toward the beach at two o'clock, then Part Two passes sixteen hours in a cell until the stars. The Sisyphus Clock Camus's boulder, pushed up the mountain each minute in flat cutout collage, then the walk back down, the hour he is aware, and a giant foot on the hour. Crime and Punishment Each hour Raskolnikov walks the 730 steps from his garret to the pawnbroker's bell, while the day runs through the novel and his fever rises and breaks. Catch-22 Clock Yossarian's mission log, 80 eighteen-minute missions a day, and Colonel Cathcart raises the number required to go home just as he gets close. Candide Pangloss insists it is the best of all possible times while Candide's disasters play out hour by hour, Lisbon to Venice, and a garden grows till dusk.

Hamlet Hamlet played once a day from a midnight curtain, the Ghost knocks the dial's numerals out of joint and they stay out until Hamlet sets the time right. Macbeth Blood drips from the numerals into a basin that turns from water to red between midnights, as the hour is struck in Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking count. The Tempest Shakespeare's unity of time made literal, the storm fills a real 2-to-6 window in five acts, and the rest of the day tells the twelve years before and voyage after. The Odyssey Homer's 24 books as 24 hours on a sea chart, Odysseus and Telemachus sail in real time while the wanderings replay in flashback from the Phaeacian court. The Divine Comedy Dante's universe in cross-section, the day is the poem's 100 cantos, falling through Hell, up Mount Purgatory, out through the nine heavens. The Canterbury Tales Twenty-four tales, twenty-four hours, as the pilgrims ride sixty miles from the Tabard to Canterbury and the Host reads the hour from the length of a shadow. Don Quixote A La Mancha windmill whose sails tell the minute and the Don's lance the hour, reading Part One by morning and Part Two by night. Lower the visor for giants.

The Great Gatsby Young Jimmy Gatz's schedule from the back of Hopalong Cassidy runs the day, while across the bay the green light on Daisy's dock burns from dusk to dawn. The Old Man and the Sea Santiago's three days on the Gulf Stream, once a day, in a cross-section of sea: the line under strain, the marlin below, then the sharks strip it to the bone. On the Road The day is Kerouac's scroll, a car runs the novel's four crossings to Mexico City while a typewriter types each minute onto one long roll. Slaughterhouse-Five Billy Pilgrim's life fills the hours out of order, the day drawn at once like a Tralfamadorian mountain range. So it goes. Infinite Jest Clock Wallace's Subsidized Time as a clock, nine sponsored years share the day while 388 endnotes and sub-notes pile up beside the time, E.T.A. vs Ennet House.

100 Years of Solitude The atmospheric reading of the novel: the time is remembered rather than read, fading and coming back, while Macondo's weather follows the hour, from insomnia to the long rain. Cien Años de Soledad The structural reading of the novel: seven Buendía generations spiral inward through the day while Melquíades's parchments are deciphered up to the hour hand. The Library of Babel Every second the time, spelled in the library's 25 symbols, is found on one page of one book on one shelf of one hexagon, with its full address. If on a winter's night a traveler Ten novels begin and break off across the day, one every 2.4 hours, each in its own genre and type, while a chapter addressed to You tells you the time. House of Leaves The house on Ash Tree Lane is a quarter inch bigger inside than out at midnight and the gap doubles every hour, while three narrators footnote the time in their own typefaces.

Dune Clock Fremen hours on Arrakis, sealed in the sietch while the sun burns the sand, then out across the dunes under two moons and home before dawn. The Dispossessed The day as Le Guin's thirteen chapters, alternating between Anarres past and Urras present across the wall, read as one sequence or as a whole. Ghost in the Shell Every minute your cyberbrain recalls a time and Section 9 checks it against the shell's clock, some memories are real and some implanted. Arthur C. Clarke The novel's three million years in a day, from the man-apes' crystal slab at midnight through Clavius, HAL and Japetus to the Star-Child. LOTR Clock The Quest of the Ring as one day, carried from Bag End to the Cracks of Doom while the hour is read as a date in Shire Reckoning.

The Dying Sun A huge, dim red sun crosses a dark-blue sky to tell the hour, faltering at irregular intervals, with a tally of how many times it has faltered today. Spell Preparation Clock Twelve of Vance's spells ring the dial, the magician's mind holds four, and each hour the next is learned while the eldest is cast and forgotten. Cutz Chronometer Cugel, sent north to Cutz by Iucounu with Firx on his liver, walks the long road back south across a brass map once a day, midnight to midnight. The Deodand Clock A traveller crosses a dark forest under the dim red sun while a deodand keeps pace in the trees, farthest at noon and closest at three in the morning.

XYZ Clock Hours, minutes and seconds read as x, y and z inside a wireframe cube, trailing the last twelve hours behind the marker. HSV Clock The time as one colour: hours turn the hue through the full spectrum twice a day, minutes set its brightness, seconds its saturation. Spectrum Clock Hour, minute and second each given their own hue, stacked as bands that slide through the spectrum at their own pace. Word Clock A grid of letters that lights only the words it needs, reading the time aloud in English to the nearest five minutes. Polar Clock Hours, minutes and seconds as nested arcs, each sweeping its ring to a close before snapping back to nothing. Bach Clock A barrel organ engraved with the subject of The Art of Fugue. Three voices read the same twelve notes at one per second, per minute and per hour, so the clock's own 1:60:720 ratio becomes a canon by augmentation, and on the hour it plays B flat, A, C, B natural. Eames / Nelson Ball A faithful CSS recreation of George Nelson's iconic mid-century modern atomic ball clock. Prehistoric Deep Time A conceptual simulation of pre-human deep time. Read the time by tracking beautiful calcified text fossils as they are slowly buried beneath layers of falling sediment. Coordinate Clock Assign Y, Mo, D, H, Mi, S to coordinate axes and plot time as a point in Cartesian, Polar, Parabolic, Elliptic, Cylindrical, or Spherical space. DSL Clock A clock you program. A tiny language with its own tokenizer, parser and evaluator decides the text, colour, scale and spin on every frame, and the syntax tree of whatever you type is drawn beside it. Glitch Clock Digits torn into cyan and magenta channels, shivering apart and snapping back on a nervous loop.

Gravity Clock Seconds fall in as balls and pile up, each minute crates them into a box, and the hour clears the floor. Flocking Clock Boids steered by the clock, in four modes: chasing the hour hand, riding a Perlin field the minutes rewrite, harried by a predator that speeds up through the day, or threading between drifting obstacles. Oscilloscope Clock An XY-mode vector trace drawing each digit stroke by stroke, phosphor dimming behind the beam. ODE Clock Particles let loose in a vector field of curl, sources and sinks, the flow redrawn by the passing time. Particle Clock Drifting particles pulled into formation to spell each digit, then scattered loose again when the second turns. Epicycle Clock 3 to 6 nested rotating circles, one per timescale from hours down to hundredths of a second, tracing a glowing Fourier-style rosette. Chaos Pendulum Clock 60 double pendulums forked by a hair, seeded by the hour and minute, blooming into a fresh rainbow of chaos every 60 seconds. State Machine Clock Three nested finite state machines — seconds, minutes, hours — drawn as concentric rings, with each carry visualized as a pulse between rings. Installable as its own offline app.

Arcade Clock Glowing cyan pixel type behind CRT scanlines, keeping time the way a cabinet did on its attract screen. Asteroids Clock The time in glowing vector outlines, adrift among tumbling rocks on a burned-in phosphor screen. Flip Clock Split-flap cards that hinge over on every digit change, hinged and shadowed like the mechanism they copy. Binary Clock Hours, minutes and seconds as columns of lit and unlit bits, with the decimal reading spelled out underneath. LaTeX Clock The present moment written up as a short mathematical paper, with abstract, keywords and numbered sections, typeset the way LaTeX would set it. Vintage Clock A photographed clock face with live hands drawn over it, nudgeable until they sit exactly on the dial. Mac OS Clock A System 6 desk accessory in a striped title bar, draggable anywhere across the Finder desktop. ASCII Clock The hour built from ASCII art, falling through a steady green rain of monospace characters.

Sun & Moon Clock Sun and moon placed at their true altitude and bearing for your location, the sky behind them taking the colour of the real one. The Mealtime Clock A hobbit's day measured in meals, from breakfast through second breakfast and elevenses to supper, with the right quote for each. Sundial Clock A three-dimensional sundial, its gnomon throwing a shadow across the hour lines as the day turns. Solar Clock Analog clock with sunrise and sunset marked on the dial, calculated from your location. Circadian Clock The shape of an ordinary day as a wheel, from deep sleep through the commute to golden hour, pinned to sunrise where you actually are.

Zoomable Life Clock The 4,680-week "Memento Mori" grid with scroll/pinch zoom, drag-to-pan, and per-week date tooltips. Dial Clock Click the dial to set alarms and timers. Hover to preview, click to confirm. Timeline Clock A scrollable ruler of the next three months. The center always reads out whatever moment you're looking at. Desktop Clock Large analog clock with soft hourly chimes. Light mode, designed to keep open on your desktop. Random Pomodoro A focus timer that keeps the length to itself: work runs somewhere between 5 and 45 minutes, breaks between 5 and 15, and you only find out when it ends. Conference Clock A speaker's countdown set against the day's running order, showing time left in this talk and naming what follows. Utility Clock A plain analog face with a timer, stopwatch and alarm behind it, for when the clock has to do actual work.