A journey through time, or, a waste of time, or just in time

The moral of this story is do your research first.
I found this GMT watch from G7 -
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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.

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Much too much info for my liking sorry, but yes, it shows the correct Time Zone for me here in England :+1:

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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 .

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Very cool idea! And thanks for sharing the process :muscle: Works for my location

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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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I think it maybe a hang over from testing - I’m only on my phone at the moment, I’ll check it out tomorrow

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If you get stuck let us know what you were trying to do . I suspect it is a formula for another Layer and it got misplaced .