Polar Clock
Time as growing arcs
How to read it
Point at a step, or tap it, to light up that part of the clock.
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Each ring is one unit, from the outside in: seconds, minutes, hours, day of the month and month of the year.
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Arcs grow clockwise starting from 12 o'clock.
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When an arc closes into a full circle, its cycle is complete and it starts again from zero.
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The outer green ring shows the seconds in the app; the widget leaves it out.
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The story
Popularized in 2007 by the PolarClock screensaver, this design replaces hands with concentric arcs that fill up as each unit of time completes.
- Year
- 2007
- Place
- The web
- Creator
- pixelbreaker
Fun fact
With no numbers anywhere, you read time by proportion — like progress bars for your day, month and year.