Needless Clock

Name: Needless Clock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: 路 林

iOS app by 路林. Utilities · 路林

Store rating: 5 / 5
Store rating count: 1
Download price: Free to download
In-app purchases: Unknown
Version: 1.4
Listing last refreshed: 2026-09-13

Store description excerpt

Eleven clocks, all telling the same time. One does it with the sun. One with a brush. One has a colony of ants carry it into place. What changes from one to the next is the idea of what a clock can be — and two of them will teach you something while you watch. WORTH LOOKING INTO Sundial Clock — a gnomon's shadow crosses a paper dial marked in the twelve earthly branches. Tap the paper to move through the twenty-four solar terms and watch the shadow change length. At midsummer noon it is a fifth of the gnomon's height; at midwinter, one and a half times it. Eight times over across one year, and that is how the year used to be read off the ground long before anyone had a clock. Water Writing Clock — a brush writes the numerals in water on a stone slab, and they start drying the moment they are written, the thin ends closing up first. Seven hands, in the order they were written: oracle bone, bronze, seal script, clerical script, then 王羲之, 顏真卿, 黃庭堅. Tap to change hand and a thousand years of one character goes past — the same numeral, carved, cast, brushed and finally written running. WHERE THEY COME FROM Flip Clock — mechanical cards. One of its three is a Solari board, the split-flap that used to hang in airports, and it has to turn its drum through every character on the way. Clock Wall — a wall of small clock faces whose hands are not telling the time. They are the strokes the digits are drawn with. Kinetic Array — two dozen pairs of hands on a geared board, turning together into a reading. Word Clock — a lit glass panel that spells the time out in words. AND THE REST Car Park Clock — cars drive in and park to spell out the time. It goes dark when your sky does; turn on location and it uses your own sunset. Ant Cookie Clock — teams of ants carry bars into place between the digits, with a pair of drops for the colon. Biscuits, rock sugar, dried fish or winter-melon candy. Worker Clock — couriers walk parcels into position, seen from above, or forklifts carry crates across a warehouse floor. Block Clock — the time is built out of falling tetrominoes, four wells of them, each three blocks square and six high. Moulded plastic, wood or milled steel. Lattice Clock — strips slide across a perforated panel behind glass, and where two cross you can see the overlap. Tap it and forty-eight rods hinged in four lit panels tell the same time instead. ELEVEN CLOCKS, THIRTY-SIX DESIGNS Tap the clock itself to change what it is made of: seven hands for the brush, five walls for the faces, four things for the ants to carry, four colors of glass, three kinds of flap, three materials for the blocks. SETTINGS Dim at night — choose the hours and how deep the dimming goes. Rotate — pick the clocks you want and how often they change, from every minute to every hour, with or without their designs. Keep the screen on — for a phone or tablet left on a stand. Use my location — off unless you turn it on, and only ever to work out your sunset. Header — show

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