Locking image in place until time updates again

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I’ve got three rings that I can get to rotate 36 degrees at the desired time. For example, the tens place wheel rotation currently looks like this:

$((((#DUH#)*3600)+((#DUm#)*60)+(#DUs#))%864)=0?36:0$

That rotates the tens ring every 864 seconds. Trouble is, the next second it rotates back to 0.

I can’t think of an appropriate multiplier expression to use with the 36 ( degrees ) to make it stay put until the next update. I can’t find anything that allows me to keep the ring rotated until the next update when I would like to rotate it another 36 degrees.

It would be nice if there were some sort of variable I could count rotations with, but there are no such things. The variables that do exist, for Pro users, seem to exist only for counting interactions with the screen.

I’m tempted to simply use the text expression I have that generates the appropriate number correctly and replace the rotors

(pad(((round(((((#DUH#*60)+#DUm#)*60)+#DUs#)/86.4))),3))

but that would defeat my aim of trying to do this pseudo-mechanically. Otherwise, I’m just remaking the face that uses this.

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I have not looked at you Issue too long . In Pro we have VAR_TE or something like that that traps DNOW and you can go from there . That is how the chronos work . I think you answer without Pro might be to do with #DNOW# and % . We need to know what your cycle time is . I have something else to do now . I will catch up later see if someone has helped .

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Well, you are right about the #DNOW# Couldn’t find “give me epoch time” and didn’t remember this, but that’s what I meant to be using instead of calculating seconds in a day as I am doing in the example. Using this tag will make the expression shorter I believe.

I have three separate versions of this now in Facer because I can not open each previous one. It just sits and tries to load forever. This may or may not clear, and if it does clear, in is uncertain how long that will take. Publishing seems to avoid this, but what I have is in no state to publish.

This is an image of the three rotors in place.

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The text in the center is so I can see what the value of my formula is.

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If you make your Draft Inspectable and post the link here we can look inside it .

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Just noticed that Inspect draft option a while ago.

Another way to say what I’m after might be that the dials need to act like jump hands. One of my iterations had the ones moving continuously, but that wasn’t what I was after.

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I have created a watch face with 2 dials for the seconds.
The last digit, just rotates using DWFSS.
But the first digit (0-5), rotates by 60 degrees when the last digit = 9, rotation:

`$(#Ds#%10)=9?((floor(#Ds#/10)*60)+60)+(clamp(((((#DWFSS#/6)%60)-#Ds#)*60),0,60)):((floor(#Ds#/10)*60)+60)$’

Maybe that is of some help…
This is the watch face (inspection open, seconds are offset by 60 degrees, so at 5 o’clock, hence the +60 at end of the formula):

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