What's new in Sharp World Clock 9.6.5.0
Feb 5, 2024
- Re-added the settings option "Allow Off-Screen", to fix a problem for some users with a multiple-monitor environment; Updated IANA time zone database to version 2024a; Updated several third-party DLLs
New in Sharp World Clock 9.6.4.0 (Aug 29, 2023)
- Updated IANA time zone database to version 2023c;
- Updated several third-party DLLs.
New in Sharp World Clock 9.6.3.0 (Apr 12, 2023)
- Bugfix: clock design would not be applied correctly, in same cases; Updated several third-party DLLs
New in Sharp World Clock 9.6.2.0 (Mar 23, 2023)
- Added "Week Numbers" to the calendar, as an option. The week number is shown in the leftmost column of each week; Also added an option "English Names", which switches to English week / month names in the calendar, if a different language was selected in the Windows settings; Updated IANA time zone database to version 2023a; Bugfix: the help files within the settings dialog (Design/Format/Global) were not available.
New in Sharp World Clock 9.6.1.0 (Feb 14, 2023)
- Bug fix: the alarm list in the alarm center was not always sorted correctly; Updated IANA time zone database to version 2022g; Updated several third-party DLLs
New in Sharp World Clock 9.6 (Nov 10, 2022)
- New features: added the option for monthly and weekly alarms to the Alarm Center; Weekly and monthly alarms are also optionally shown in the calendar (can be set in the calendar settings)
New in Sharp World Clock 9.5.5 (Nov 10, 2022)
- Updated IANA time zone database to version 2022f; Updated the Nodatime library
New in Sharp World Clock 9.5.4 (Sep 26, 2022)
- Updated IANA time zone database to version 2022d; Updated several third-party DLLs
New in Sharp World Clock 9.5.3 (Aug 17, 2022)
- Updated IANA time zone database to version 2022c;
New in Sharp World Clock 9.5.0.2 (Feb 11, 2022)
- Fixed a bug in the Alarms section (12:00 PM was handled incorrectly); added "Next Day" and "Next Week" filters to the alarm list
New in Sharp World Clock 9.5.0.0 (Jan 27, 2022)
- Added a "Sticky Notes" module
- Add virtual "Sticky Notes" to your desktop
- Resizable windows with various background colors
- Change font and font color for one note or for all notes
- Topmost option
- Global hotkeys to hide/show the sticky notes and to add a new one
New in Sharp World Clock 9.4.2.0 (Jan 11, 2022)
- Minor overall improvements, mainly in the Alarms section:
- Changed dropdown list for "Past" and "Future" alarms with buttons, to spare one click
- Increased size of buttons for new alarm clock / count down
- Alarms in the list can now be opened for editing by double-click
- When adding a new alarm or editing an existing one, hitting Escape or clicking "Close" in the dialog does not close the dialog, but only the current action
- Text for Count Down can now have more than one line
- Resizing the Alarms dialog, when adding or editing an alarm, the month calendar is resized
- Menu items for "Add" and "Close" are now equal both in the main window and undocked clocks and some other menu items were renamed (Alarm Center -> Alarms, Fead Reader -> Feeds
- For undocked clocks: "Settings -> Control -> Undocked Clock behavior", a new option was added to hide/show the main window on double click
New in Sharp World Clock 9.4.1 (Dec 8, 2021)
- Major improvements in the time format section:
- Several lines can now be used, by simply pressing "return" in the multi-column text field (pipe symbol "|" still works)
- The preview also shows multiple lines now
- New constants to show UTC offset ("UTC"), local time offset ("LOC") and an asterisk for cities within daylight saving time ("DST"); Try this line: "UTC" UTCDST "/" "LOC" LOC - it will display this text (example): UTC +13* / LOC + 12
- Fixed an old issue with the menus: menu items now respond also when the mouse is in the area between icon and text
New in Sharp World Clock 9.4.0 (Dec 7, 2021)
- Major update with new functions and improvements:
- Added a "World Map" window, with a resizable world map like in the city-select dialog; cities are shown with their name and / or the local time, if set in the options (menu button bottom left).
- The city select dialog now does not close immediatly after selecting a city with "Return" - it has an "Apply"- and a "Close" button instead
- The city search can be switched to "UTF8" temporarily, to find some cities when using a non-western keyboard (especially for Turkey, where there are several characters that don't exist on western keyboards)
- On clicking "Apply" for a city, the respective clock shows a rotating orange star icon in the upper right corner for a short time, indicating the changed clock
- The text for an alarm can now have multiple lines instead of just one
- Fixed a bug when opening the calendar settings dialog (position)
- Changed the system libraries for SQLite database access - now using the SQLitePCL bundle of Eric Sink
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.9 (Nov 19, 2021)
- The "Ignore Mouse function does not apply to the calendar widget anymore;
- The time labels in the meeting planner now always show 24 hour time format, regardless of the system settings
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.8 (Oct 26, 2021)
- Made the new "Ignore Mouse (click through)" option permanent, so it is saved in the settings;
- Updated two DLLs;
- Updated IANA time zone database to version 2021e;
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.7 (Sep 15, 2021)
- Added the previous "Anchor (immovable)" tray menu item again, so there is now 1. this option and also 2. the new "Ignore Mouse (click through)" option (which is not saved to the settings)
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.6 (Sep 14, 2021)
- Changed the tray menu icon "Anchor (Immobilize)" to "Anchor (Ignore Mouse)" like in the older versions, so the clocks and calendar do not respond to the mouse at all;
- Updated some DLLs
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.5 (Sep 14, 2021)
- Updated some third party DLLs
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.4 (Mar 30, 2021)
- Added a checkbox to the Meeting Planner: "Local Time on Top", allowing to ignore the sorting according to UTC offset for the local time city; Some minor optimizations and a DLL update
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.3 (Mar 23, 2021)
- The "Reset" button in the Meeting Planner is now always visible and not only resets the date picker to the current date, but also the time selector needle to the current time
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.2 (Mar 21, 2021)
- Changed hotkey control in the settings dialog and added a second hotkey to open the Meeting Planner / Time Zone Converter dialog (you need to set your hotkey again, this is a breaking change); More bug fixes and improvements in the Meeting Planner: the needle stays locked now, after adding and removing cities and changing the date; Added a "Reset" button to the Meeting Planner, which becomes visible after changing the date.
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.1 (Mar 17, 2021)
- Improvement in the Meeting Planner: the dialog now opens with the time selector needle in locked state and set to the next half hour of the local time city; Small improvement in the Calendar widget: made the rounded corners optional (no corners is the new default)
New in Sharp World Clock 9.3.0 (Mar 16, 2021)
- Updated the Noda time library and all related functions from 1.x to 3.x; Improvement: hidden rows in the Meeting Planner are now saved and restored; Disabled the "Maximize" button on the Converter dialog and Alarm Center dialog
New in Sharp World Clock 9.2.4 (Mar 11, 2021)
- More improvements to the Meeting Planner module: displayed city names can now be edited (independently from the clocks) and the UTC offset info can be disabled.
New in Sharp World Clock 9.2.3 (Mar 10, 2021)
- Improved the Meeting Planner module: it is now independent from the cities of the selected clocks. You can remove single clocks or all at once and add other new cities, which do not have a representation in the clocks.
New in Sharp World Clock 9.2.2 (Mar 3, 2021)
- Improved feature: the info label now shows up at an appropriate location relative to the clock, not at one location for all clocks; The weather report label slides in gradually; Time zone database was updated to version IANA 2021a; Fixed a small bug: the order of manually sorted clocks was not always saved.
New in Sharp World Clock 9.2.1 (Dec 24, 2020)
- Updated time zone database to version IANA 2020e; Fixed a small bug in the chime settings dialog (sound files could not be loaded); Some minor optimizations
New in Sharp World Clock 9.2.0 (Dec 15, 2020)
- Rebuilt the city database, using city names in ASCII format instead of UTF format. That makes it easier to search for cities in some Asian countries like Turkey or Vietnam on a western keyboard; The map section in the city dialog is now hidden when "Time Zone" locations are selected. Some minor optimizations.
New in Sharp World Clock 9.1.0 (Nov 24, 2020)
- Fixed a small bug in the offline activation;
- Updated a few DLLs;
- Cleaned Reuters news from the feed list
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.9 (Nov 9, 2020)
- In the Meeting Planner the cursor keys (left/right) can be used to move the needle, after locking it; Updated some DLLs
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.8 (Oct 30, 2020)
- Fixed the AutoStart function
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.7 (Oct 22, 2020)
- Updated time zone database to version IANA 2020d
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.6 (Oct 9, 2020)
- Updated time zone database to version IANA 2020b; Some minor optimizations
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.5 (Aug 22, 2020)
- Fixed an issue with offline activation
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.4 (Aug 18, 2020)
- Fixed the City List and Time Zone List in the Converter dialog
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.3 (Aug 13, 2020)
- Updated the installer, using InnoSetup 6 now
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.2 (Jul 10, 2020)
- Fixed the installer, program name is now 8 again to avoid double entries in the control panel
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.1 (Jul 7, 2020)
- Fixed the world map control that was broken after the update to .Net 4.72
New in Sharp World Clock 9.0.0 (Jul 3, 2020)
- Fixed the weather report and the online activation functions, which were apparently broken by a Windows update; Changed the required .Net Framework version from 4.52 to 4.72 and updated some DLLs
New in Sharp World Clock 8.9.0 (Jun 19, 2020)
- Bugfix: daily alarms for another city (not local time) now work correctly; Added a button "Delete Alarm" to the "Edit Alarm" dialog
New in Sharp World Clock 8.8.0 (Apr 24, 2020)
- Updated time zone database to version IANA 2020a
New in Sharp World Clock 8.7.1 (Jun 24, 2019)
- Added Solar Noon ("True Noon") to the city dialog; fixed the Sky Strip to actually show daytime, when the sunrise is later than the sunset.
New in Sharp World Clock 8.7.0 (Apr 15, 2019)
- Added more options to the Sky Strip: top/bottom position and display of office hours (alternatively to the sky or combined);
- Only one program instance can be started now;
- Desktop icon can be used to hide / show the program; Added the "Center Clocks" item to the tray icon context menu (click again within 20 seconds to reverse centering);
- Major changes in the saving and loading of resources to improve reliability and save system resources
New in Sharp World Clock 8.6.1 (Mar 29, 2019)
New in Sharp World Clock 8.6 (Mar 27, 2019)
- Added the Sky Strip (the day/night indicator bar as known from version 7) again, with new design (round edges) and adjustable height; Updated time zone database to version to IANA 2019a from March 25, 2019
New in Sharp World Clock 8.5 (Mar 8, 2019)
- It is now possible to have a date/time label with line breaks (separator: "|"), so you can show the date and the time in two separate lines.
- The city label can optionally be placed below the clock (new option "Position Top/Bottom")
New in Sharp World Clock 8.4.5 (Aug 29, 2018)
- Added a link "Center Clocks" to the Info dialog, which unhides and moves all clock windows and the calendar widget to the main screen center, which can be helpful in some rare cases. Improvement in the Feed Reader module: added a "Remove Feed" link in case a link seems to be invalid, right below the displayed error message
New in Sharp World Clock 8.4.4 (Jul 25, 2018)
- Fixed a bug in the Alarm Center: the selected voice did not update, when using the speaking function and voice output worked only on Windows 10
New in Sharp World Clock 8.4.3 (Jul 24, 2018)
- Fixed a bug in the Feed Reader module: the search function did not work, when invalid feeds were in the list.Also added a function to show a label "Invalid Feed" in such cases. The user can then remove them manually or update the address
- Updated several program libraries (DLLs) to their latest version
New in Sharp World Clock 8.4.2 (Jul 24, 2018)
- Removed invalid feeds from the feed reader list
New in Sharp World Clock 8.4.1 (May 17, 2018)
- Updated time zone database to version IANA 2018e;
- Fixed an issue with the "keep on screen" function, which caused the clock to be moved away from the screen border during startup on some machines;
- Added a "10 Years" item to the timespan filter in the alarm list
New in Sharp World Clock 8.4.0 (Apr 26, 2018)
- Fixed the "keep windows on screen area" function, which did not work properly on some multi-monitor environments; Fixed the "stick to border" (magnet) function, which now works on additional monitors; Optimizations on the info popup positioning.
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.9.0 (Apr 16, 2018)
- Updated time zone database to version 2018d; Added settings option "Allow Off-Screen" (ignore screen borders)
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.8.0 (Mar 13, 2018)
- Fixed a graphcs glitch in the world map (earth shadow did not fill the whole map between 12:00 and 13:00 UTC)
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.7.0 (Mar 2, 2018)
- Saving of settings during startup phase and on involuntary shutdown is now prevented
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.6.0 (Feb 21, 2018)
- Enhanced program stability during startup. Better preparations are taken for rare cases in which the clock settings could not be loaded: the program cannot start with just one default clock anymore - instead it will try loading again after a delay, then check again and if still not successful offer a restart or shutdown;
- Fixed a small bug: resize handles could stay visible, when the "Anchor (immobilize)" option was set.
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.5.0 (Feb 2, 2018)
- Added a number spinner to all slider controls, so you can decide which one to use; The "Select Font" dialog now responds to changes of the theme (Dark/Light)
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.4.0 (Feb 1, 2018)
- Fixed a bug in the updater: there was an error when saving the setup file to the "Downloads" folder after downloading it (please use a different folder for saving the setup file or change the file name, before you have this version)
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.3.0 (Jan 31, 2018)
- Left clicking a date at the calendar widget now brings up a context menu, where you can edit an existing alarm, add a new one or just bring up the alarms list (alarm center in default mode); Small bug fix: alarm tooltips for the calendar can no longer be off-screen, if they are too wide; Updated the time zone database to IANA 2018c (released 2018-01-22) and also several libaries.
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.2.0 (Jan 15, 2018)
- Added mmHg and inHg as air pressure options to the weather report; Added filters for daily and annual alarms to the alarms list
New in Sharp World Clock 8.3.1.0 (Jan 12, 2018)
- Important bug fix: settings files cannot be overwritten with empty ones anymore; Minor fix: calendar settings dialog can no longer be partially off-screen after opening;
- Clicking the Calendar menu item now hides the calendar, if it is visible;
- Design fix (line separator) in the weather dialog;
- Update optimization: after downloading the new setup file, program exits and installation starts automatically
New in Sharp World Clock 8.2.0.0 (Jan 5, 2018)
- New feature in the weather report dialog: current day 3-hours-interval forecast with temperature and weather symbol
New in Sharp World Clock 8.1.3.0 (Jan 3, 2018)
- Calendar widget switches to new date now, when system time day changes
New in Sharp World Clock 8.1.2.0 (Dec 28, 2017)
- Minor bug fixed: graphics glitch in the date window
New in Sharp World Clock 8.1.1.0 (Nov 14, 2017)
- New time zone database (IANA 2017c); optimizations for the weather report at the info popup
New in Sharp World Clock 8.1.0.0 (Nov 6, 2017)
- First stable and free of known bugs version - update is strongly recommended.
- Major bug fixed: sound files could not be found after recovering from standby, affecting alarms and chimes.
- Minor fixes: Folded/hidden cities in the meeting planner are now hidden throughout the program session;
- Info popup will not be off-screen but in the top-left corner, when main window fills the entire screen.
New in Sharp World Clock 8.0.0 (Oct 15, 2017)
- Version 8 is ready! After more than a year of hard work, a completely new version is finished, which sets a new standard again! It is programmed from scratch and features many improvements and modernisations. Visit the dedicated program website www.sharpworldclock.com and the version comparison for more details and documentation.
- Version 8 can be installed parallel to an existing installation of version 7, since they are using different program and data directories and version 8 does not import any data from older versions, you have to set up your cities, alarms etc. again. The icons also differ slightly. So you can try version 8 and uninstall it without affecting the older version.
- Please note that the update from version 7 and older versions is only free for users who bought their license in the year 2017, but all other users are qualified for a very cheap upgrade price of $9.95 for a limited time - see the notes on the checkout page for details.
New in Sharp World Clock 7.53 (Mar 3, 2017)
- Small bug fixes and actualizations
New in Sharp World Clock 7.52 (Oct 28, 2016)
- Added support for roman numerals and rotated or upright numbers in the clock faces;
- Added an optional date window in the 3'o clock position of analog clocks
New in Sharp World Clock 7.41 (Oct 20, 2016)
- Added a 24 hour mode for analog clocks; added design options for minute marks; optimized digital clock display for proportional fonts
New in Sharp World Clock 7.3 (Oct 6, 2016)
- Clock rims can now be dark instead of light, optionally
New in Sharp World Clock 7.2 (Oct 4, 2016)
- Re-designed some icons, especially the ones in the popup menu
- Changed menu order in the context menus ("Close this Clock" is now on top again)
- Fixed the UTC/local time offset selectors (now a global setting and not in the design section anymore)
- Optimized some code
New in Sharp World Clock 7.14 (Jul 15, 2016)
- Fixed a small bug, related to the window resizing
New in Sharp World Clock 7.13 (Jul 15, 2016)
- The digital clock time label can now use any (also proportional) true type font with "seconds" turned on, without jumping glitch because of the different length of the numbers
New in Sharp World Clock 7.1 (Jul 15, 2016)
- Since some users demanded it, the Time Zone Calculator window is now resizable and allows to view more cities without scrolling. The calendar widget can now be opened and closed from the menu and the opened state shows as a checkmark.
New in Sharp World Clock 7.0 (Jul 15, 2016)
- Improved the Time Zone Calculator window by giving the Meeting Scheduler an extra page. Fixed the chime (did not work correctly at midnight). Several minor modifications.
New in Sharp World Clock 6.90 (Sep 30, 2015)
- Added a "Show 2 Months" option to the calendar widget. Fixed the auto clock synch function for installations running on Windows 10.
New in Sharp World Clock 6.81 (Jul 29, 2015)
- Minor bug fixes: improved behavior for info tooltip window, when clocks are in topmost mode; fixed graphical bug, when a clock was moved inside the main window and "Integrate Corners" is selected; fixed time zone for Minsk, Belarus
New in Sharp World Clock 6.8 (May 20, 2015)
- Bugfixes: time and date is now right-aligned correctly for all cities of any text string length in the context menu (used custom drawn menu items); Excluded the calendar widget from the "keep on screen" function and added it to the "Center Clocks" function; Fixed checkmark for the "Click Through" context menu item (was one item off since adding the new Center Clocks item)
New in Sharp World Clock 6.71 (May 20, 2015)
- Bugfix: the current month / marked day on the calendar widget now switches correctly, after awakening from hibernation or on the next day
New in Sharp World Clock 6.7 (May 20, 2015)
- New feature: Calendar Widget
- Add a small calendar to your desktop - resizable and with configurable background color. Click a day to add or edit/review an alarm. Alarms are also shown on mouse over; Some minor bug fixes and code optimizations
New in Sharp World Clock 6.6 (May 20, 2015)
- Added a 5th tab to the Configuration Assistant: Startup Behavior, where the features "Start with Windows", "Hide on Startup" and "Hide / Show Hotkey" can be configured;
- Digitally signed the clock setter executables;
- Fixed a few minor bugs
New in Sharp World Clock 6.5 (May 20, 2015)
- Fixed a bug in the Configuration Assistant (a disabled country flag threw an exception on next launch); Changed order of menu items: Edit Clock / Settings is now first item in context menu; Added a settings item for entering proxy settings (for activation / weather forecast function); Some code optimizations
New in Sharp World Clock 6.41 (May 20, 2015)
- Fixed the Configuration Assistant for some users who were having issues on Windows 8.1; Added an option "Keep on Screen" in the settings (activated by default), which tries to keep all windows within the visible screen area Since a few users were having problems with this function, they can now deactivate it. Added a menu item "Center Clocks" to the tray icon context menu: can be used if clocks are somehow out-of-reach; The edit dialog is now a little larger, so the controls have more space
New in Sharp World Clock 6.4 (Sep 1, 2014)
- Added a "Configuration Assistant" to the program, which is launched on first installation, instead of the help dialog (or later from the context menu: "Assistant")
- Modernised and improved some program code
New in Sharp World Clock 6.31 (Jul 2, 2014)
- Added a "Switch" button to the time zone calculator, to quickly switch between the two selected cities
- Increased the time for the "weather tooltip" to show up (now 2 seconds)
- Improved stability of the weather report/forecast function (added a timeout after 5 seconds)
New in Sharp World Clock 6.3 (Jul 2, 2014)
- Added an automatic atomic time synch feature (Windows only synchronizes once a week, which for some users is not enough). The system clock can be synchronized at certain intervals (24 hours...10 minutes) with NIST servers on the internet (before it could only be checked and synchronized manually). You have to manually install the required Windows service once (from the settings dialog, requires user elevation and an activated installation), then it will always start and run in the background, even after a reboot. Users who do not want or need it, don't have to install it - it is not automatically installed with the program.
New in Sharp World Clock 6.27 (May 23, 2014)
- Padding (space between clock face and border) can now be 100 instead of 20 for an analog clock array
New in Sharp World Clock 6.26 (May 23, 2014)
- Added an option to position the optional date label on top of the time label; small changes in the Clock Designer.
New in Sharp World Clock 6.25 (Mar 12, 2014)
- Fixed a left over issue on systems with high resolution screens: the "Dimmer" slider could be invisible
New in Sharp World Clock 6.24 (Feb 3, 2014)
- The background / clock face designer was partly broken since one of the last updates
- The "Info about..." dialog cold not be opened anymore from the menu icon context menu
New in Sharp World Clock 6.23 (Jan 23, 2014)
- The custom color swatches in the "More Colors" part of the Color Dialog popup windows can now be used
New in Sharp World Clock 6.22 (Jan 23, 2014)
- Updated notification icon library (enhanced compatibility with Windows 8 / 64bit systems)
New in Sharp World Clock 6.21 (Jan 23, 2014)
- Improved calculation and performance of screen resolution detection
New in Sharp World Clock 6.2 (Jan 23, 2014)
- Enabled correct functionality on systems with other than normal screen resolution (like 125%)
- Added checkbox to disable the tooltip window
- Several small bug fixes and improvements.
New in Sharp World Clock 6.1 (Jan 23, 2014)
- Weather conditions are now displayed in the tooltip (on mouse-over): current condition and temperature, minimum and maximum temperature.
New in Sharp World Clock 6.01 (Jan 23, 2014)
- Fixed the display of office open/closed state in the tooltip of single (undocked) clocks
New in Sharp World Clock 6.0 (Jan 23, 2014)
- Improved the "Tooltip" popup window, which appears on mouse-over for each clock: It is now an independent window and not a system tooltip, allowing fading, text formatting and fixing the problem of its disappearing too soon on the first mouse-over event.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.90 (Nov 29, 2013)
- Fixed the "Transitions" list -> Past Transitions. Now it correctly shows the last transitions, regardless if daylight start or end
New in Sharp World Clock 5.89 (Oct 29, 2013)
- Fixed the time zone for Minsk, Belarus and Kaliningrad, Russian Federation
New in Sharp World Clock 5.88 (Aug 26, 2013)
- Fixed a bug in the "Alarm Center": an alarm time for the time zone in another city will now be correctly calculated again (function was broken in last version)
- 12 AM and 12 PM are now spoken as "12 midnight" and "12 noon", when "speak the time" is enabled
New in Sharp World Clock 5.87 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Fixed a small bug in the "Alarm Center": after editing an alarm, the tab title would remain at "Edit Alarm" instead of "Add Alarm"
- When editing an alarm, the selection "Local Time / Time in City..." is now hidden, since setting an alarm for a distant time zone will always be converted to the local time zone before saving anyway
- The checkbox "Disable Dimmer on this Clock" on single (separated) clocks is now gone and so is the "Dimmer" trackbar on single clocks. Single clocks will usually not be dimmed on out-of-office hours
- Added a help link to the "Dimmer" trackbar on main window clocks, informing about the function
- Corrected the miniatur flag image of Italy in the "Countries" tab
New in Sharp World Clock 5.86 (May 1, 2013)
- Fixed the "virtual locations" (time zones) in the city selector
- Alarm messages can now have line breaks
- Corrected time zone for Puerto Ayora, Ecuador
- Removed some unreliable time servers from the atomic clock synch function
- Added confirmation dialog, when a settings file is imported
New in Sharp World Clock 5.85 (Jan 29, 2013)
- Added an option to select either local time offset or UTC offset for the label in the upper left corner of the analog clocks
- Added UTC offset to the clock tooltips and help tooltips to the design section of the Edit dialog
- Added the country to the cities for the "Time Zones" table
- Fixed time zone info for the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Panama and Haiti
New in Sharp World Clock 5.84 (Dec 5, 2012)
- Improved compatibility with Windows 8 final
New in Sharp World Clock 5.83 (Sep 13, 2012)
- Fixed: changing flag size or padding would also change the clock size in a one-column layout
- Fixed: clock size increased by 2 on every program start, when a one-column layout was set
- Fixed: time zones for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the Falkland Isles
New in Sharp World Clock 5.82 (Aug 17, 2012)
- Fixed an incompatibility with Windows 8 (RC). Sharp World Clock should now run fine on Windows 8.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.81 (Aug 16, 2012)
- Fixed time zone for the Dominican Republic
- Fixed a bug: confirmation dialog on closing a clock showed an incorrect text message
- Weather report uses the default proxy settings now, if a proxy is configured
New in Sharp World Clock 5.8 (Jul 18, 2012)
- Added "Shadow" checkbox in Clock Designer section (below the font selectors), to optionally re-enable the drop shadows for the labels, which were disabled in version 5.79. This checkbox works globally for all clocks, not just for the selected clock. It applies to City/Date/Time labels as well as AM/PM and Offset labels in analog mode.
- Fixed a small layout bug: for single clocks in digital-only mode the "Gloss" effect would overlap the clock rim, if enabled.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.79 (Jun 4, 2012)
- Flag size trackbar is now correctly hidden, when there is no flag available (for virtual locations/time zones)
- Added explaining help text to the time format list (Clock Designer section), changed its colors and renamed it from "Documentation" to "Date / Time Lookup Table" (some users did not realize this was no control, just a lookup table)
- Added help text over the "Ctrl Mode" selector, for single (undocked) clocks
- Removed drop shadow from the city / date / time labels, to improve the performance on slower computers
- Fixed small bugs in the Sunrise / Sunset section and in the font selectors
New in Sharp World Clock 5.78 (Jun 4, 2012)
- Fixed update module / file downloader, which did not work / worked slowly for many users
New in Sharp World Clock 5.77 (Jun 4, 2012)
- Added "Past Transitions" to the (daylight saving) "Transitions" table. Switch between upcoming and past transitions with a link.
- Fixed a small layout bug in the Countries / Time Zones / Transitions tables (table was partially hidden in the lower part).
- Fixed a bug, where the position of the clock was not correctly restored, when a "one-column" layout was selected
New in Sharp World Clock 5.76 (Jun 4, 2012)
- When setting a time zone with a greater UST offset than the computer's UTC offset, a crash would result in the sunrise / sunset module because of invalid sun data. Solution: disabled calculation and display of sunrise / sunset data for virtual (time zone) locations. Also disabled ("n/a") latitude and longitude display.
- Fixed a bug that could result in a crash, when trying to clone a single (undocked) clock.
- Fixed a bug that could result in a crash in the font dialog, when an invalid font was selected.
- Small improvement: when changing a font size inside the "Select Font" dialog, it will now have an effect (within the limits of the track bar) and will not be ignored.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.75 (May 7, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.74 (Mar 27, 2012)
- Improved tooltip design and behavior.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.73 (Mar 27, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 5.72 (Feb 28, 2012)
- Minor 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).
New in Sharp World Clock 5.70 (Feb 23, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 5.60 (Feb 18, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 5.53 (Feb 16, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.52 (Feb 6, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.51 (Jan 27, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.49 (Jan 9, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.48 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.47 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.46 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.45 (Dec 23, 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).
New in Sharp World Clock 5.44 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.43 (Dec 23, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 5.42 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.41 (Dec 23, 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).
New in Sharp World Clock 5.4 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.33 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.32 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.31 (Dec 23, 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).
New in Sharp World Clock 5.3 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.2 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.1 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.04 (Dec 23, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 5.03 (Dec 23, 2011)
- Fixed bugs in the "out-of-office dimmer" function and the design presets section
New in Sharp World Clock 5.02 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.01 (Dec 23, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 5.0 (Dec 23, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 4.85 (Feb 26, 2011)
- Fixed a bug in the alarm clock: one-time alarms could go off repeatedly. Updated daylight savings information for 2011.
- Minor improvements.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.84 (Nov 26, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.83 (Jun 22, 2010)
- Fixed a layout bug with the minute marks, changed the office hour shadow default from level 3 to 10.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.82 (Jun 12, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 4.81 (Jun 11, 2010)
- Fixed a bug in the export / import function.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.80 (Jun 8, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.70 (May 31, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.60 (May 4, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.55 (Mar 12, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.54 (Nov 4, 2009)
- Fixed (removed) daylight saving info for Perth, Western Australia
New in Sharp World Clock 4.53 (Nov 4, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.52 (Oct 9, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.51 (Oct 9, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.50 (Oct 4, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.47 (Jul 5, 2009)
- Bugfix: version info is now correctly updated on Vista systems
New in Sharp World Clock 4.46 (Jun 30, 2009)
- Fixed a layout bug, which showed up in analog mode, when "hide on startup" was deactivated. Tweaked preview and changed some default settings
New in Sharp World Clock 4.45 (Jun 15, 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.
New in Sharp World Clock 4.44 (Jun 5, 2009)
- Fixed a start-up issue; some minor cosmetic changes
New in Sharp World Clock 4.43 (Jun 4, 2009)
- Improved start-up behaviour: Window shows up only after the interface is being loaded
New in Sharp World Clock 4.42 (Apr 17, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 4.41 (Apr 15, 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
New in Sharp World Clock 4.40 (Apr 6, 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.