Description
★★★★ Meeting planner ★★★ Alarms ★★★ Sunrise/Sunset info ★★★ Time synchronization (NTP) ★★★★
The World Clock is the most powerful application in its class with time converter, network time synchronization, alarm clock and notifications functionality, more than 197 000 populated places from more than 230 countries around the world, comprehensive information on daylight savings time transitions and more.
Some "Pro" apps present a fake day/night map, which looks like the actual day/night map, but is very inaccurate. Sometimes (especially around the equinox, when the night and day have approximately equal length), the sunrise or sunset shown on the map is more than two hours off. Also, The World Clocks provides network time synchronization. If you compare several iPads or iPhones, connected to the network and running side by side, their World Clocks will "Tick" simultaneously.
Features:
• Supports iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
• Attractive real-time Earth day-night map (on iPhone and iPod touch - switch to Clocks tab and turn the device in landscape mode)
• Option to display additional information, e.g. GMT offset, time difference, day of week, true solar time, sunrise, solar noon and sunset times for the selected locations and more.
• Send an email invitation with prepopulated time table for select locations from the main screen or from the meeting planner window (iPad) or convert tab (iPhone)
• Network time synchronization for sub-second precision (requires 3G or WiFi network connection; corrected time and the measured time difference displayed, system time change not allowed by the OS)
• Auto-update of the timezone database over the network
• Alarm Clock and Alert functionality with DST transition adjustment and multiple time zones support
• User selectable alarm snooze interval (2 - 15 minutes)
• The scrollable map turns The World Clock into interactive time converter for different timezones.
• Meeting Planner window gives detailed info for each location and instant access to 40 popular time zone abbreviations to convert from (e.g. PST, EST etc.)
• Display 1 to 24 clocks
• Selected places shown on the live map
• User-editable location names
• Customizable map centering
• 4 options for twilight display on the map.
• Uses industry-standard daylight savings algorithm and database
• Database with more than 197 000 populated places from more than 230 countries around the world
• Search by typing city name using native or alternative spellings
*** iPad only ***
• 9 clock designs - 5 analog and 4 digital
• Full screen clocks view - hide or show the map with a single swipe.
• Clock faces change from dark to light based on user-selectable criteria:
- light during the day (after sunrise), dark during the night (after sunset) at each location
- light during the business hours
- light before noon (AM), dark after noon (PM)
- other options, including custom selectable hours
• In-app help
• quick time conversion for arbitrary date form the main screen
• an info button, shown after tapping on the clock. Allows quick access to information on date, time difference from the current location, GMT difference, next DST transition and more
Credits:
The Day and Night Map is generated based on images from the NASA Visible Earth Project.
Design improvements by Marcello Luppi, Wrinkly Pea Design
What's New in Version 5.0.3
Version 5.0: This is the most significant update of The World Clock since it's release. We implemented all major feature requests suggested by thousands of users without compromising the simplicity and usability of the app. We implemented some new ideas of our own to bring even more flexibility and power to your hands.
iPhone and iPad:
- send an email invitation from the main screen or from the meeting planner window (iPad) or convert tab (iPhone)
- covers 29759 populated places in USA (up from 24345 in the previous version)
- Antarctica stations added to the database; other database updates
- four twilight options for the day/night display (affects the transition between day and night as shown on the map)
- User selectable alarm snooze interval (2 - 15 minutes)
- bug fixes and performance improvements
iPhone:
- option for additional info on the main screen (instead of the country name), e.g. one of the following: date, GMT offset, time difference, sunrise and sunset and other.
- built-in quick help
iPad:
- display the day/night map, time, sunrise/sunset for arbitrary date
- interactively rearrange the clocks by dragging them to the desired position
- full screen clocks display - just swipe over the map upwards to hide the map or swipe a handle down to show it again
- quick time conversion for arbitrary date from the main screen
- an info button, shown after tapping on the clock. Allows quick access to information on date, time difference from the current location, GMT difference, next DST transition and more
- improved meeting planner window
- digital clocks with seconds
- two new analog clock styles
- with iOS 5.x - adjust screen brightness without leaving the app
- performance and visual improvements
Version 5.0.3: Corrected date display on iPhone for certain timezones. Fixed "Find us on Facebook" link.
Customer Reviews
Best world clock app
I have used dozens of traditional, online and other electronic world clocks over the past many years. Most are either difficult to use or not very elegant. This one does the job - easy to use, accurate and very nice to look at. I recommend it highly.
Awesome app!!
I travel quite a bit and I also talk to a lot of people around the world. This app really comes in handy when setting up meetings with people in different time zones! This is a must have app for international business people!
Master time zones ... Maximize productivity
Terrific app ... keeps me productive on frequent travel across 19 time zones (incl. the int'l date line). World display with sun map helps me synchronize with the home office and family with minimal interruption to their normal day/night cycles. Zipping an email from Asia to teammates spanning the East Coast to Hawaii with a topic, outcome, and a plan to "meet" via FaceTime/Skype at the right time aided by World Clock's intuitive displays is a snap ... even when mentally fatigued with jet lag.
- $1.99
- Category: Travel
- Updated: Dec 22, 2011
- Version: 5.0.3
- Size: 58.4 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
- Seller: Andrei Kolev
- © 2010-2011 Orlin Kolev
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
