MagicHour iPhone App Shows How World Clocks Should Be Done

Leander Kahney ()

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MagicHour is a world clock app with great information presentation.

In one screen, the app displays a wealth of info about time, daylight stages and moon phases in different cities. Edward Tufte would cream his pants. All world clocks should be like this.

Via tumbly.dotsar and Robot Wisdom.

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MagicHour is $3.99 from the App Store.

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Leander Kahney

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  • Roy

    That’s “Tufte” not “Tufty,” and yes, he probably would.

    • http://cultofmac.com Leander Kahney

      @Roy tx. fixed it.

  • Gene

    I dunno… maybe I’m just a prude, but I don’t see the need for crude idioms in a tech blog. It didn’t add anything to the entry, and just… well, it seems unworthy of a good writer. I’ve seen this a lot lately — is hip, happenin’ vulgarity what it takes to get people to read blogs about technology these days?

  • Allan

    Tufte would still find fault – how does one indicate graphically that it’s Friday in Auckland when it’s Thursday in Seattle? One solution would be to shift the current time in Seattle as far left as possible, thereby putting Auckland to the far right. It would also preserve the relative positions of all the timelines – it’s great that the day/night separators are in sync with each other.

    Still, a great application of Tufte’s principles. I’m getting a copy.

  • Samuel Herschbein

    It’s OS X version is the VelaClock widget, I’ve used it for years and love it:

    http://www.veladg.com/velaclockwidget.html

  • don

    I’m also no prude and I have to agree with Gene, the ‘creaming’ could have been left out. It’s certainly not something I expect in a tech blog. Nor is it something I care to read while eating my Mac and Cheese.

    Leave the graphic sexual idioms to those who can’t otherwise get their point across and to the porn sites.

  • ChamFan

    Sorry but they should not be using the Union Jack for Edinburgh, Capital of Scotland. Scotland’s flag is the Saltire cross of St Andrew. Diagonal white bars on blue please.

  • Michel

    To me, ‘would cream his pants’ was a salient and applicable phrase that I didn’t think twice about until the pedants called on it.

  • jon Scordia

    I agree, a Saltire for Scottish locations please!

  • ged

    until the scots gain full independence they have to put up with certain FACTS

  • Paul

    This looks like a very cool app. I just wish I was cosmopolitan enough to need such a thing. Having friends, family, and co-workers that span no more than the EST to PST gap doesn’t seem to warrant buying this. Perhaps someday ‘globalization’ will become personal for me. If it does, I’m all over this app.