Time Palette¬ is an application which calculates the current time for any place in the world. Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) is supported as are non-hour-based time zones. In addition, the program will calculate the distance between any two points on Earth and can figure the local times of sunrise/moonrise & sunset/moonset for any location.
A customizable database of 10,000 cities is included. Time Palette¬ can also display a map of the world in numerous different projections depicting areas of day and night over the Earth's surface.
Requirements...
Ñ A Macintosh PowerPC computer
Ñ System 7.5 or greater
Ñ 1MB available memory (5MB or more for map displays)
Shareware Notice...
Time Palette¬ has undergone many changes since I first created it in June of 1992. Version 3.0 of Time Palette¬ has been completely rewritten with a more modern drag-and-drop interface. I have put a great deal of time into this new version... a version that would not have happened without the support of registered users. If you continue to use this software, please send in the shareware fee. I am relying on you to make this program worth the time I spent writing it. Please do not abuse the shareware system. Thank you for your support.
A special note to registered users:
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank all of you who have supported this program over the years by sending in the registration fee. This version would not have been possible without you. This upgrade is free to registered users - if you have already paid, disregard the shareware notice. Thanks friends!
Getting Started...
Copy the Time Palette¬ application to your hard drive and double click on its icon to open the program. If you are a registered user, you should enter your name and serial number when requested.
If you have not yet registered, you may press the "Not Yet" button (which becomes active after a 5 second wait) to use the software on a trial basis. The unregistered version will write "UNREGISTERED" across all the map displays, but is otherwise fully functional.
Please read the following carefully:
In order for Time Palette¬ 3.0 to display the correct times, it must know what city you live in.
To properly configure the program, find the city where you live by searching the atlas (Type the first few letters of the city where you live). If your city is not in the atlas you may add it, or choose a city that is nearby and in the same time zone as where you live.
Drag this city from the atlas window to the window marked "Your Location".
If you are currently observing Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) where you live, check the box for this in the "Your Location" window.
Using Time Palette¬ 3.0...
Time Palette has four basic windows and uses a drag and drop interface. The four windows are described below.
Time Palette Window: The Time Palette window displays the current time in various cities throughout the world. You can resize this window to display from one to ten different cities. Click and drag on the vertical bar between two cities to alter the width of the clock displays. To change the city of a particular clock, drag a city from the atlas to the clock.
Holding down command and option will toggle the time displays to an alternate display. The alternate display is selected by using the menu at the far right of the Time Palette window (the black, right-pointing triangle).
Alternate displays are...
1) Date - (Displays the current date)
2) Latitude & Longitude - (Displays the city's geographical latitude & longitude)
3) Distance & Heading (mi) - (Displays the distance and direction from "Your Location" to the city in miles)
4) Distance & Heading (km) - (Displays the distance and direction from "Your Location" to the city in kilometers)
5) Distance & Heading (nm) - (Displays the distance and direction from "Your Location" to the city in nautical miles)
6) Angle to Sun - (Displays the elevation and azimuth of the sun for an observer in the city)
7) Angle to Moon - (Displays the elevation and azimuth of the moon for an observer in the city)
8) Sunrise & Sunset - (Displays the local times of today's sunrise & sunset in the city)
9) Moonrise & Moonset - (Displays the local times of today's moonrise & moonset in the city)
10) Length of Solar Day - (Displays the hours and minutes of daylight today)
11) Local Solar Noon - (Displays the time at which the sun reaches its highest point in the sky today)
Points of interest...
Ñ A + or - in front of the time display indicates tomorrow or yesterday respectively.
Ñ To set the background color of a clock, double click in the colored area above the city's name.
Ñ To drag the window, click and drag in the colored area above any city's name.
Atlas Window: Time Palette maintains a searchable database of cities which are accessed through this window. To find a city, type the first few letters of its name.
Your Location Window: This window contains the information required by the software to correctly determine the time in various cities. You must find the city where you live in the atlas, and drag it to this window. In addition, you must check the Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) box when your city is on Daylight (Summer) Time.
Note to portable users: If you travel with your computer and change your system's clock to the time in the cities you travel to, you must drag this city from the atlas to the Your Location window.
Map Windows: Time Palette¬ 3.0 introduces the use of multiple, resizable map projections and allows for several maps to be open simultaneously. Internally, the map Time Palette¬ uses is a rectangular projection which is then transformed into the selected viewing projection. For this reason, portions of the map may lose sharpness at very large view sizes. (This is because there may not be enough detail in the source map to crisply render all areas of the display map).
You can drag a city to the map display to center the view on that city.
Time Palette is shareware. You are permitted to try it free for 10 days. After this trial period, you may delete it or register it by sending in the registration fee. You are permitted to install the program on as many computers as you wish, as long as it is not used in more than one place simultaneously. If you need to use it on more than one computer at the same time, please register the number of copies that you will be using simultaneously.
Upgrade Policy...
Upon registration you will receive the latest version free of charge, unless the version you register is the latest one.
Registered users will be notified of future releases.
Minor releases (bug-fixes and minor feature enhancements) will be made available for a small fee to cover mailing, or can be downloaded from online sources.
Major releases will be made available for a reduced fee to be determined when new versions become available.
REGISTRATION...
When registering this software, please include the following information...
1) Your Name
2) Your full and complete mailing Address
(Including street, suite #, city, district, state or province, postal code and country)
3) An E-Mail address (if you have one) so that you can be notified of future upgrades.
DOMESTIC REGISTRATION (Within the United States)...
There are two options for registering from within the United States...
Please send your payment to the address listed at the beginning of this document.
1) You may send a check for $25. All checks must be written in US Dollars.
2) You may send $25 in cash.
3) You may register online with CompuServe (GO SWREG). Time Palette's ID# is 2646.
INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION (Outside the United States)...
There are four options for registering from outside the United States...
Please send your payment to the address listed at the beginning of this document.
1) You may send me the cash equivalent of USD $25 in your local currency.
Please round the amount to the nearest value that can be paid in paper currency.
2) You may obtain $25 US Dollars in cash at your local bank and send me US currency.
3) You may send me a check for $25 US Dollars. All checks must be written in US Dollars.
4) You may register online with CompuServe (GO SWREG). Time Palette's ID# is 2646.
I am aware of the risks of sending cash through the mail, and if you choose that option, you do so at your own risk. However, I have received many payments using this method from other users. Please make sure that the cash is not visible in the envelope (wrap it in a sheet of paper).
If you do decide to send cash, I would prefer that it be in your local currency, and not US Dollars.
Site License Registration...
For discounted pricing on site licenses (For use on more than 5 computers), please contact me directly via E-Mail or Standard Mail.
Support for this software is available via E-Mail. Please direct any questions or comments to the electronic mail address below. If you do not have access to any of these services, you may contact me by standard mail at the address listed at the beginning of this document. Thank you for your support.
E-Mail: support@timepalette.com
Copyright Notice...
Time Palette¬ 3.0 and all accompanying documentation is ⌐ Copyright 1992-98, by Trygve H. Inda. All Rights Reserved. You may not rent, sell, modify or attempt to reverse engineer this program in any way. You may however redistribute it freely providing this document accompanies the program.
