The main function of Sun Times is to display day and night moving across a map of the world's time zones. Sun Times calculates sunrise and sunset times for over 10,000 locations covering the world's land surface. Sun Times also displays the current local time in each of these locations.

In addition to this main Sun Times function, it has climate, aviation, geographical and astronomical features.

The climate features display expected seasonal temperatures and precipitation, estimates of current temperatures based on the local time of day, tables of in depth climate data, and illustration of departures from long-term climate averages (for year 2000 onwards).

The aviation features allow most scheduled worldwide commercial flights to be plotted and animated, airline route networks to be illustrated and tabulated, timetabled departure and arrival boards to be generated, and idealised airspace capacity demands for most timetabled civil aviation to be plotted.

A further aviation feature allows you to investigate how flying across the world's time zones will affect the observed time of sunrise and sunset.

The geographical features tabulate the time zone, daylight savings rule, region and population of locations in Sun Times, and show populations (for 2007) for cities, regions and countries.

The astronomical features allow the movement of the Sun, Moon and naked-eye planets to be plotted relative to each other or relative to an observer's horizon.

The locations in Sun Times include almost all of the places with populations greater than 100,000 and the capital cities of countries. Locations with smaller populations are included to fill the geographical gaps where there are no large population centres. You can also add your own location into Sun Times.

Here are some key features of "Sun Times":

· View the current, future and past times of sunrise and sunset in over 10,000 locations worldwide
· Check what the current local time is in more than 10,000 locations (with daylight saving adjustments)
· View the Sun's compass bearing, elevation angle above the horizon, and the theoretical cloudless colour of the sky during twilight
· Watch twilight move across maps of the World, Europe, North America, or any other custom area
· Plot likely world-wide flight positions based on airline timetables.
· Plot airline route networks and hubs, and tabulate the number of flights and passengers on particular routes
· Generate flight departure and arrival boards for airports, countries or airlines, based on published airline schedules.
· Plot the demands on upper airspace created by timetabled civil aviation
· Plot and animate a flight itinerary showing the effect of flying on the position of the sun as timezones are crossed.
· View information about locations around the world where the sun is currently rising or setting.
· Find and animate Solar eclipses from different locations on Earth
· Add and edit the Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time Rules of locations
· Produce a yearbook of sunrise and sunset times for a specific location
· View Dawn and Dusk times
· View how the total "top of atmosphere" solar radiation varies according to time of year and location
· Calculate planetary Right Ascension and Declination co-ordinates and distances from Earth
· Animate the path of the Sun, Moon and planets (visible to the naked eye) across the sky relative to an observer's horizon, on an hour-by-hour basis, or looking at the same clock time on consecutive days.
· Animate the path of the planets in their orbits around the Sun.
· View climate information and graphs for the locations, and watch how these change through the year
· View the current estimated temperature at each location
· Plot and tabulate observed climate reports from 2000 onwards (published by the World Meteorological Organisation), and compare them to historical climate averages.
· List populations, areas and population densities in all the world's regions and countries
· Calculate and list Islamic prayer times and other times of religious or cultural significance which are derived from the position of the sun.
· Choose between conventional calculation methods used in generating Islamic Prayer Times.
· View photos of over 700 places chosen to showcase the natural scenery and archaeological sites of our planet.


Requirements:

· 866MHz processor with 256MB RAM (recommended processor above 2GHz with 256MB or more RAM.
· 30MB of hard disk space for installation
· 1024x768 screen resolution or higher.