Hi! This is a remake of a clock made by Devine Lu Linvega.
Check out the original clock here!
I made it as a distraction when I was learning to code in uxn, because I felt it would look pretty cool as a screensaver on my RGB-30 (though it doesn't really work as a screensaver if the clock border is static lol)
The clock uses a date and time format described in detail here. Basically, the letter of the alphabet marks each 2-week period since the start of the year (26 letters * 2 = 52 weeks) and the 2-digit number immediately following is the day of each period. Days are then divided into a 1000 beats with a 1000 pulses each. (e.g. 500:000 is noon)
Since pico8 doesn't have a way to measure miliseconds (or at least I couldn't find anything), I implemented sub-second measurements in a hacky way which is simply counting frames and pretending each frame is 1/60th of a second. I noticed it sometimes makes the clock go slightly backwards for a frame or two though I haven't tried to debug it thoroughly, maybe the line draw code is wrong idk.
Hope you enjoy!
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