https://github.com/turitoyuenan/longitude-time
A Clock App that Shows Unmodified UTC Time
https://github.com/turitoyuenan/longitude-time
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A Clock App that Shows Unmodified UTC Time
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/turitoyuenan/longitude-time
- Owner: TuritoYuenan
- Created: 2023-07-15T08:41:31.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: android-app
- Last Pushed: 2024-04-13T10:04:02.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-12T18:51:25.066Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: clock, longitude
- Language: Kotlin
- Homepage:
- Size: 303 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Longitude Time
This is a clock app that tells time based on the user's longitude
## Concept
- Time zones were originally determined by longitude (and they still do!).
- But if you look at a time zone map, you'll notice most time zone boundaries got bent around country borders, or just pierced through completely.
- This is because many countries choose to observe one or a few time zones for uniformity and simplicity.
- It's fine, but it also means time in many places are not as correct as we thought (not even to mention DST).
- **Longitude Time** as an app provides an insight on what each location's realtime is.
## How it works
1. Longitude Time receives your location input consisting of your city and country.
2. The city and country inputs are sent to a Geocode API to receive the longitude.
3. The received longitude is divided by 15 and rounded to give your location's time offset.
4. Your location's longitude time is then calculated by adding the offset to the current UTC/GMT time