Metric Clock

The Windows operating system can be fitted with quite a variety of enhancements, both visual and functional. Some come as stand-alone programs, while others attach to existing components for enhanced functionality. For instance, Metric Clock is a little gadget which shows time in the Metric system.

Note that native support for gadgets in Windows is last seen in 7, while 8.1 and 10 rely on third-party applications such as 8GadgetPack to enable functionality. System restart is not required, so the gadget can be integrated and launched right away.

The clock gadget can either sit on the desktop in a suitable position, or the gadgets bar. Clock is shown in real-time, as well as the date, which can be toggled off. The gadget benefits from the default set of options, such as level of opacity of the main window, and whether or not to sit on top of other windows.

On the other hand, it also comes with its own set of options. The dedicated panel makes it possible to scale the window size or leave the autoscale function do its job, options to toggle the visibility of the date string, and title, as well as colors to be used for background, title, time and date, version, and copyright.

One last note is that Metric time is completely different in values from regular time. In other words, a 24 hour day has 10 hours in metric time, 100 minutes per hour instead of 60, and so on. This makes one metric second equivalent to 0.864 regular second, one metric minute equal to 1.44 regular minutes, and 1 metric hour about 2.4 regular hours.