A clock you can leave on screen
This page shows the current time from your own device, in a size you can read across a room. It is meant to be left open — on a second monitor, a spare tablet, a classroom projector, or a phone propped up on a desk — rather than glanced at once and closed.
Press the full screen button and the clock scales to fill the display on both width and height, so it fills a widescreen monitor and a phone in portrait equally well. After a couple of seconds of no input the header fades out and every ad is hidden, leaving nothing but the time and the sky. Any mouse movement or keypress brings the controls back.
The sky is real
The background is not a photograph or a looping video. It is drawn live, frame by frame, from the actual position of the sun: it moves through dawn, daylight, dusk and night as the day genuinely progresses, and the clouds are a volume with light passing through them rather than a flat image. None of that needs your location — the time of day alone is enough, so the page is atmospheric from the first second without asking you for anything.
Tap the weather chip in the corner and it does two more things: the cloud cover starts following the real conditions where you are, and the sun rises and sets at the true times for your latitude rather than a generic six-to-six. Rain and snow fall on two separate depth layers in front of the sky, and a thunderstorm lights the clouds from the inside.
Digital or analog
The digital face rolls each digit as it changes and sweeps a fine ring around the outside once per minute, so you can tell at a glance that the page is live rather than frozen. The analog face has a continuously sweeping second hand rather than one that jumps, hour marks weighted heavier than minute marks, and a counterweight past the hub.
Options that stay put
- 12 or 24 hour — noon and midnight are handled correctly in both.
- Seconds on or off — off makes the hours and minutes noticeably larger.
- Four themes — each one tints the sky rather than covering it.
- Six numeral fonts — including monospaced faces whose digits never shift width as they change.
- Reduce motion — freezes the sky to a still frame and stops the rolling digits, the sweep and the precipitation.
Everything you pick is stored in your own browser, so the clock opens exactly as you left it next time. Nothing is sent anywhere and there is no account to create.