Looking Out To Sea

The clock applet in GNOME is surprisingly useful to keep track of friends and family in foreign places, and considerably less naff than having real clocks on the wall labelled “New York”, “Paris”.

This is a screenshot from my desktop at work, showing locations of company offices, my brother and the launch site for the NASA test rocket last month. (Don’t judge me!)

I really like being able to see whether someone is likely to be up just by looking at the map. It also makes it very clear in winter which countries get more sunlight than others (hint: it’s the ones having their summer time!). And those poor countries across the top which hardly see a ray of sunshine all winter. :-( I shall have to check in six months time how the coverage of light/dark across the globe has changed.

Anyone else got a similar gizmo which is apparently useless but that gives a great deal of excitement?

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