Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock (opens in new tab)

Super Cool, Love it.

I love new clock designs, here is my try https://triclock.franzai.com/

I made an alphabetically-organised clock. I am sorry.

Great idea! I'd like to make a german version, since the two digit numbers are sorted differently. E.g. 34 is sorted vier(4)_und_dreißig(30).

Reminds me of Lord Vetinari's Clock:

The clock in Lord Vetinari’s anteroom didn’t tick right. Sometimes the tick was just a fraction late, sometimes the tock was early. Occasionally, one or the other didn’t happen at all. This wasn’t really noticeable until you’d been in there for five minutes, by which time small but significant parts of the brain were going crazy.

– Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, page 321

This is the kind of thing that's completely useless and I absolutely love it. Bookmarked.

> "In Combined mode, every possible time (43,200 of them) is spelled out, sorted alphabetically"

Why limit yourself? — make a 24-hour version and you have 86,400 possible times!

Wonder which language's number words produce the most scrambled day. Welsh might win — "un ar bymtheg" (16) is going to cause chaos.

Got me thinking about novel clock designs in digital space - seems like something vibe coding could open the floodgates to :)

By Ryan Bateman. Name checks out (on multiple levels).

Useless and delightful

Need this irl

Cool stuff!

HATE :-)

The clock is moving very dizzy, lol