The moral of this story is do your research first.
I found this GMT watch from G7 -
I thought that its great and I will try something similar but with more cities.
Okay idea 1 a disk with the 24 time zones with a couple of cities for each zone. Ok, that failed because by the time I put the 24 time zones around the watch on a fake bezel there was no space for the cities.
Idea 2 I’ll have 2 disks with 12 time zones each. That gave me room for 2 or 3 cities for each time zone if I put them radially - see below for the first disk(WIP) My idea being that I would have a pointer or rotate the disc to indicate which time zone the user was actually in at the time
I made a similar 2nd disk, however that failed because there are more than 24 time zones - in theory there are 24 time zones but there are actually 27 UTC offsets and nearly 40 local time zones. I have no idea what time zones or UTC offsets the Facer tags produce and I could find no way of testing for them.
Idea 3 - okay a change of plan. I watched a film on 'Netflix called ‘Around the world in eighty days’ and that gave me the idea for the final watchface -
It’s a watchface that tells the story of Phileas Fogg’s journey around the world. It shows his journey day by day (sort of) by showing the places he visited with arrival and departure dates. A link to the previous ideas is that it shows the actual time zone you are in. If you use the date slider in Creater you can easily see the progression of his journey. However, I understand that it is not good form to ask for help in testing the watchface but if someone could tell me if the correct time zone is shown for your location it would help me very much as I am not sure what Facer will produce.
I don’t think it is not good form to invite people to test your work . The only unwritten guideline is one should not do the job for the Maker . Try point the Maker in the correct Direction . But I am very guilty of jumping in am making working tests . I have tried to keep Time Zone stuff very generalised based on UTC . There are so many anomalies like Nepal |( GMT+5.45) I think it is and the international Date line is something to Behold .
Great Work @BIELITZ . Not quite sure what the zones opacity Formula is supposed to do . I would be surprised if it worked . I see ; where it might be : . But I have not tested it .
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It was indeed a hanger on - it’s a bit strange actually as can be seen in the section you pasted - Opacity is shown as 100% but in the text above the tag is shown a conditional text (instead of the result) this condition text was due to me trying to test things and it caused a conversion fail when trying to publish. I checked just now and it seems ok
May be if the Formuls returns NUL instead of result the opacity defaults to 100 . In WFS we have to delete the default Value or add / subtract from it . It can be quite handy with positional stuff as ther are some positioning Buttons . If you change the size of something you have to repositon it or its pivot point . Facer makes that all a lot easier .
Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days in 1872. The fictional Philias Fogg’s journey starts October 2nd 1872 and finishes 21st December. These two dates are reflected in the watch together with the arrival and departure dates in-between for major stops.
Maybe this provoked the agreement some 12 years later - who knows!
Really cool to see how your idea evolved — sometimes the failed versions are what lead to the best concept. Your final “Time Traveller” design sounds fun and much more practical than trying to fit every time zone on a dial. If someone can confirm the time-zone tag on their end, that should give you the last bit of confidence you need. Great work sticking with it
Works for my location