May 7th, 2012· Fixed display of UTC time in the Time Zone Calculator ("Convert from..." box): UTC time is now correctly updated when the city changes.
· Clock window corners are correctly updated when all but one clocks are removed.
· Confirmation dialog text changes, when last clock in main window is about to be removed.
March 27th, 2012· Improved tooltip design and behavior.
March 27th, 2012· In the Time Zone Calculator dialog the labels for the time zones and the daylight saving information are now correctly updated for the destination city and the target city, when the date/time pickers are set; they do not just show the current UTC offset / daylight saving status anymore, but for the target date/time instead.
· In the Live Time Shift (same dialog) the minutes can now be set with or without a 5 minutes grid.
· The dimmer has a new configuration option: "Dim before 6 AM and after 6 PM"
· Fixed time zone for Panama
February 28th, 2012Minor update with new design options:
· The hour marks in the analog clock can now be rectangles, circles or triangles. For the minute marks: circles can be set, instead of rectangles. Unified style selection for numbers (number picker instead of checkbox).
February 23rd, 2012· Clock windows can now be resized simply by dragging the handle in the lower right corner (appears on mouse-hover)! The track bar in the Edit dialog can still be used though.
· The old "Layout" track bar was replaced with numeric pickers for Rows and Columns, which should be more intuitive for new users.
· Bug fix: when editing a one-time alarm that was set for a foreign time zone (inserted after converting to local time), the selection was shown for the foreign time zone, but the time picker for local time
February 18th, 2012· The dimmer has new configuration options, additionally to the "out-of-office" hours: dim from noon until midnight and dim during night time (after sunset and before sunrise).
· The dimming can be disabled for a single (undocked) clock, which is especially useful when using such a clock as an "anchor" or replacement for the desktop (sidebar) clock, where a dimming effect would not look good.
· Added new option "Integrate Corners" to the Settings->Miscellaneous section. This allows you to remove the rounded corners from the clocks within the clock array. Only the four corner clocks keep rounded corners. Especially along with the option "no margins" this looks very elegant.
· Added help tooltips to the checkboxes and drop-down-menus in the Settings->Miscellaneous section.
· When using the Live Time Shift function in the Time Zone Calculator, the dimming effect will now also be updated correctly
February 16th, 2012· Bug fixes: when the clock resumes from hibernation (power-down state), it searches for missed alarms after being woken up now, so especially alarms with no specific time will go off correctly when the computer is not shut down, but only put to sleeping mode overnight.
· Selecting a design preset will not overwrite the "Anchor Mode" anymore, so a clock used as an anchor does not have to be set up again, after a different design preset has been selected.
· The tool tips on the clocks stay for 10 seconds now, not just 5.
· Activation now works through a proxy server (using the settings from Internet Explorer).
· Some minor design improvements and code optimizations.
February 6th, 2012· Bug fixes: The sky strip on the clocks updates each minute now instead of each hour. Also the sky strip will be updated correctly on Live Time Shift in the Time Zone Calculator.
January 27th, 2012· Fixed a small bug: office hours for new clocks are now applied instantly and not only on the next full minute.
· New: the sunrise and sunset times are now displayed in the tooltip (like they were in version 4), plus some other small improvements.
January 9th, 2012· Added an option to temporarily deactivate all upcoming alarms and chimes in the Alarm Center. Added a confirmation dialog to the "Click through" menu item in the tray icon context menu. Corrected time zones for Ecuador and Colombia. Fixed a bug in the alarm center for periodic alarms and minor design changes.
December 23rd, 2011· The chime sound and the "speak the time" function can now be limited to work only within a defined time span.
· The computer voice can now be selected by the user, separately for the "speak the time" function and the alarms, if "Speak Text" is enabled. Fixed a bug in the alarm center: an alarm could be put into the alarm popup cue repeatedly, instead of one time only.
· Several minor enhancements.
December 23rd, 2011· Added a (separate) volume knob to the "Speak the time" function in the Alarm Center, also volume changes for the chime sounds can now be monitored during playback.
· Fixed a bug that let the program crash if the Weather Report was aborted before a weather feed was loaded.
· Some minor bug fixes and enhancements.
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed bugs in the Alarm Center: a playing (long) sound file is now stopped when alarm popup is closed.
· Passed alarms that are edited and put back on schedule will now fire correctly.
· Time picker in the "Count down" alarm section now shows correct time format.
· In the Weather section: When the "Show all Cities" checkbox is toggled, the current city remains selected and will not be replaced by the first city in the list anymore.
· Fixed a bug in the "Solar noon" function, which could cause a .Net exception for specific cities (Tuvalu), when the edit dialog was opened.
· Edit dialog icon is not showed in the taskbar anymore.
December 23rd, 2011· Changed weather report display: night symbols are now only showed for the current day (if target city has night time), not for all days of the forecast. Patched the bug fix of version 5.44 - now it should work in any case, even on old installations (do not import an old city file after the update).
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed a bug: clocks supposed to show user defined cities could show other cities instead.
· Minor improvements: when the "Select City" tab is left without applying the selected city, a message box pops up to confirm. Balloon tip in taskbar is now hidden for registered users.
· In the "Presets" selector, the zero selection selects the original design now. Added and changed some design presets. Confirmation on docking a single clock.
December 23rd, 2011· Last selected cities (also the check state of "Show all Cities") in the Time Zone Calculator are now saved and restored, also added "Find City" buttons to that form; labels now have rounded corners. Updated changed country flag for Libya.
· Added "Find City" button to the weather report dialog; Minor design fixes
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed a few small bugs in the Transitions table and the Time Zones table and generally for the display of daylight saving information, especially for countries that do not apply it anymore (Russian Federation, Morocco...). Added new functionality to the Transitions table: clicking a time zone switches to the rule details on the Time Zones table.
· Added "Speak the Time" for an interval of every half hour.
· Weather report always shows English weekdays now.
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed a bug with the auto size in the "Live Changes" slider area.
· Added the time of last observation for the weather report (converted to local time).
· Optimized the "Topmost" function (did't work on some PCs).
December 23rd, 2011· Added an online weather report feature (powered by worldweatheronline.com) for the current day and the next four days, for every city or (if city is not included) for every location.
· Fixed the Transitions table / tooltip - the dates and times of the next daylight saving transitions are now displayed correctly.
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed a bug in the spoken time function: 12 PM was spoken as 12 AM. Added a manual "Check for Update" link to the "Info about..." dialog.
December 23rd, 2011· Added new functionality to Sticky Notes: they can now be minimized to the title bar with one mouse click and unfolded again.
· Also added options for transparency, "Opaque on Mouse Over" (if transparent) and "Expand on Mouse Hover".
· The info bubble in the tray area disappears after 5 seconds now, regardless of any mouse actions. Window position and size of feed reader is now saved and restored. Fixed a few minor bugs.
· Added some new, pleasant sounds to the sound library and removed some old, ugly ones.
December 23rd, 2011· Improved the Sticky Notes function: Sticky Notes can now be resized to only the title bar and they contain a scrollbar, if the content does not fit the window.
· Added new countries: Aruba and Sint Maarten. Fixed small bugs in the Select City module (Edit / Delete).
December 23rd, 2011· Added "Sticky Notes" as a new program module.
· Select "Sticky Note" from the menu, to add a new note; size, colors, font and topmost mode can be configured.
· Fixed small bugs in the alarm center and in the "check for new version" module.
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed major bugs: applying a design preset could overwrite the selected city and the office hours settings and dock a single clock to the main window. Changed window positions were not always saved on program shutdown. Added "sweep second" to the settings again (use carefully).
· Added the "Countries", "Time Zones" and "Transitions" tabs to the time zone calculator, as in the settings dialog.
December 23rd, 2011· Added a manual atomic time (NIST) server check and adjust function in the settings.
· Fixed the tray icon menu bug (clicking elsewhere now closes it).
· Added a "balloon popup", which appears for a few seconds after program startup in the bottom right corner.
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed bugs in the alarm center: regular alarms did not work properly, weekly alarms could not be set to a specific time. Sky strip is now wider and darker, to make it easier to read. Program updates are now overwriting the city list and the design preset list of users, without interfering with any user-defined cities or presets. Updated time zone info for Guatemala
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed bugs in the "out-of-office dimmer" function and the design presets section
December 23rd, 2011· Office hours can now be set for several cities at the same time. Added hotkey (Ctrl+F) to the "Find City" button. Renamed the "Columns" trackbar to "Layout". Updated help file, some minor fixes.
December 23rd, 2011· Fixed the "click-through" function, fixed the UTC offset labels (reversed +/-), the calculation intensive tables in the settings are now computed in the background. Raised limit for clocks in a row from 10 to 20. Changed second hand movement from instant jumping to a real (although fast, to keep processor load low) animation.
December 23rd, 2011· Written from scratch, using the latest Microsoft technology (.NET 4 / WPF). LOTS of improvements, the most important one might be: updating the time zone / daylight saving information is done by Microsoft now (via Microsoft Update). For all changes, see the included help file
February 26th, 2011· Fixed a bug in the alarm clock: one-time alarms could go off repeatedly. Updated daylight savings information for 2011.
· Minor improvements.
November 26th, 2010· Enhancements and bugfixes: Changes in the Time Format and Appearance sections can now be enabled or disabled separately, so changes made to a single clock are not overridden accidentally. Also city changes to one clock do not affect the Design section anymore. Fixed a layout bug in the preview clock (clock face was not centered when the time format had changed). Corrected the flag for the UK.
June 22nd, 2010· Fixed a layout bug with the minute marks, changed the office hour shadow default from level 3 to 10.
June 12th, 2010· Improved tolerance for imported settings files (from previous versions or with invalid fonts or file references);
· Added some hints to guide new users about adding and editing clocks
June 11th, 2010· Fixed a bug in the export / import function.
June 8th, 2010· Alarms can now be set for each city (time zone), not just for the local time zone and the maximum is now 20 alarms instead of 10.
· Several minor enhancements.
May 31st, 2010· The "Office Time" function in the settings can now be set for each city separately instead of just globally. The range for the office time is now much wider. The office hours are now displayed in the mouse-over tooltip, when the "Out-of-Office Shadow" function is activated. The "24 Hours" checkbox in the settings dialog and the checkbox with the same name in the city edit dialog now operate on the same function (in previous versions the checkbox in the city edit dialog only worked on the clock time format, while the checkbox in the settings dialog was operating on the displayed time in the additional functions only). The two options "Columns" and "Size" are now present in the settings dialog also, not only in the "Global" section of the "Edit Clock" dialog. Some minor tweaks.
May 4th, 2010· Double-clicking the desktop icon now shows or hides the program window instead of just showing an alert, when the program has already been launched. A registered installation does not check for activation on program startup any more (caused problems for some users), but later, on user interaction instead. Fixed a bug: a new design showed up correctly (during the "fading" phase) only after a program restart. The program directory is no longer used for the backup xml files during the installation phase; this could cause an accessibility issue on Windows 7. Implemented new daylight saving rules for Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria and Iran. New "Getting started" dialog, which can also be called later from the menu. Some minor tweaks.
March 12th, 2010· Limit of clocks in one row is now 20 instead of 10. Font size can now be changed up to 40 instead of 20. Pressing "Apply" in the "Sort Clocks" tab does not affect clock design anymore. Fixed activation issues on some systems.
November 4th, 2009· Fixed (removed) daylight saving info for Perth, Western Australia
November 4th, 2009· Fixed settings for Argentina (no more daylight saving). Time zone entries without real coordinates do not show up in the world map anymore. Fixed update of city list and daylight saving list.
October 9th, 2009· Bug fix: when "Window Frame" was enabled, it did not show up after a program restart. Added a warning dialog when sliding seconds are enabled.
October 9th, 2009· Bug fix for 4.50: city change did not work anymore. Returned to "jumping second" as the default and added warning dialog, when the size of the interface exceeds a certain limit, while sliding seconds are enabled.
October 4th, 2009· Major update with new features, internal improvements and bug fixes: optional "sliding" instead of jumping second hand (clock is updated 10 times/second now); Minute hand is moving gradually and does not jump on a new minute; Optional minute dash marks (new default) and hour dash marks (can be turned into the old dot marks); Hands are now thinner and show the usual layer pattern: hour, minute second (from bottom to top); Much improved resource handling: graphics resources are now shared between clocks; In the design section the "Columns" picker now shows the number of currently selected clocks now, if less then 10. Bug fixes in the preview section: preview clock is correctly resized and realigned when time format is changed; Leading zero is now correctly displayed on the preview clock. Updated the daylight saving information.
July 5th, 2009· Bugfix: version info is now correctly updated on Vista systems
June 30th, 2009· Fixed a layout bug, which showed up in analog mode, when "hide on startup" was deactivated. Tweaked preview and changed some default settings
June 15th, 2009· Fixed a bug which occurred, when a limited user installed the program: versioninfo.xml was missing. Also improved clean-up when program is still running on uninstallation. A "clean tool" is now available, to remove any remaining shortcuts, registry entries and data folders after an uninstallation on a limited user account.
June 5th, 2009· Fixed a start-up issue; some minor cosmetic changes
June 4th, 2009· Improved start-up behaviour: Window shows up only after the interface is being loaded
April 17th, 2009· Fixed a layout bug, which showed up on a one-column small analog clock interface; another small correction on the am/pm indicator position; improvement on the "stick to border" function
April 15th, 2009· Added "Apply" button in settings dialog; Removed "current version" limitation in import function; Refinements in positioning of offset time and am/pm indicator on clock faces; Removed the "Initializing..." message
April 6th, 2009· Important bugfix: on daylight saving changes, the clocks will switch precisely at the correct hour now. Also fixed related bugs in the time zone calculator.
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