GNOME Swatch Clock

[Rol]

I had mentioned I was making a Swatch Internet Time extension for GNOME, and now it's finally on the extension store.
I initially had made it pretty quickly, but I forgot to check if it was compliant with the guidelines  , so I fixed all that last night and submitted it again.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5946/swatch-clock/



Additionally, a modified version of the script on the Wiki I made to make the code a bit more clean for the extension.

Code

function getSwatchTime() {
    const date = new Date();
    const [hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds] = [
        (date.getUTCHours() + 1) % 24,
        date.getUTCMinutes(),
        date.getUTCSeconds(),
        date.getUTCMilliseconds()
    ];
    const timeInMilliseconds = ((hours * 60 + minutes) * 60 + seconds) * 1000 + milliseconds;
    const millisecondsPerBeat = 86400;
    const swatchTime = Math.abs(timeInMilliseconds / millisecondsPerBeat);
    return `@${swatchTime.toFixed(2)}`;
}

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[Icey!]

I must ask, what is a Swatch Clock and what are it's use cases?

[Rol]

this is really cool!!

would be extra cool to see if you could make it available for other systems like wayland, kde and dwm

in fact, i remember being inspired when i first saw this post to make something similar to work in tmux (because im an old-fashioned TTY user :P), which ive got here!

either way, nice work!!!

There isn't really much to it, other than a JavaScript function and the code that makes GNOME display it. It shouldn't be too hard to make for other desktops. Also, Wayland is a display server, not a desktop like KDE or DWM.

I must ask, what is a Swatch Clock and what are it's use cases?

There's a page on the wiki about Swatch Internet Time! It explains it pretty well.

[Icey!]

There's a page on the wiki about Swatch Internet Time! It explains it pretty well.

Oh I see, too bad it isn't used much.