Size and Design
The size of the clocks in Sharp World Clock can be changed from tiny to huge - without loss of visual quality! All graphics are rendered vector based and hardware accelerated, using the most advanced and modern WPF technique.
Unlimited Analog & Digital World Clocks
- 23,000+ cities in all 244 countries
- Accurate DST rules for every time zone
- Fully customizable: fonts, colors, borders, hands, flags, numerals, layouts
- Lossless resizing thanks to WPF/DirectX rendering
Alarms & Timers for Any Time Zone
- Single, daily, weekly, monthly, annual alarms
- Countdown timers
- Slide-in notifications
- Optional chimes or spoken time announcements
Calendar Widget
1–6 months view- Appointments shown as colored markers with mouse-over details
- Localized weekdays and month names
- Optional gradients and transparency
Time Zone Converter
& Meeting Planner
- Convert times instantly between any two cities
- Automatic DST handling using the IANA database
- Plan meetings across multiple time zones with ease
Weather Reports Worldwide
- Updated every 2 hours
- 3-hour interval forecast for today
- 4-day forecast with temperature, wind, sunrise/sunset, moon phase
Additional Tools
- World map with city times
- Sticky notes
- News feed reader
- City images
- Office hours / daylight indicators (Sky Strip)
Unlimited Analog or Digital Clocks on your Desktop, for any Time Zone
There is no loss in visual quality, when resizing the clocks: they can be tiny or huge and anything in between (the graphics are using WPF, which is a layer on DirectX).
Clocks can be in analog or digital mode. Country flags, borders are optional, like all other details.
You can modify colors, fonts, borders, date/time format and everything else for all clocks or individually.
Clocks can be in a row, line or grid or single (undocked). If not needed all the time, they can be hidden and shown with a hotkey or a click at an undocked clock.
Time Converter and Meeting Planner - Convert easily from one Time Zone to another
The integrated Time Zone Converter can easily convert the time from one time zone to another.
Daylight Saving is taken into account precisely, thanks to the most accurate and up-to-date IANA time zone database.
The Meeting Planner makes arranging meetings across multiple time zones a snap.
Alarms and Timers for Local Time or any Time in the World
Set alarms and count-down alarms in the sophisticated Alarm CenterSlide-in notifications can have different colors
Single Alarms - show a reminder on any given date and time, local time or the time in any city
Daily Alarms - repeat an alarm each day at a given time or only on selected weekdays
Weekly and Monthly Alarms - show an alarm on certain week days and on a certain day each month
Annual Alarms - show an alarm on a certain date each year (plus warning 1..10 days before)
Count-Down Alarms - set a timespan (hours and minutes, up to 100 hours)
Chimes - hear a sound signal or hear spoken time
Optionally play a sound file (WAV, MP3, WMA, once or looped) or speak the alarm message
Weather Reports for every major City in the World
Weather Report and Forecast
One of the integrated tools of this world clock is a world wide weather report, which is updated every 2 hours. It shows the current weather conditions, a 3-hours-interval forecast for the current day and the forecast for the next four days, with minimum/maximum temperature (°Celsius or °Fahrenheit), wind speed and wind direction. Also shown are the sunrise and sunset time and an icon of the current moon phase, with information about the next full moon and new moon.
Info Popup
There is an optional info tooltip/popup, visible on mouse-hover on any clock, showing some additional information, including the current weather for the selected city:
Date/Time strings in the interface are using local language settings (here: German), but the digital clocks can use any language for the time and date.
Time Tool for Companies and Traders with Office Time / Active Time of any Location
Dim Clocks outside Daytime or customizable Office Hours
You can easily distinguish cities within and outside a certain time span ("office hours", the default is 8 AM - 5 PM) by dimming clocks outside that time span. This is adjustable from 0% to 90%. Instead of office hours you can also select the daylight hours (time between sunrise and sunset) of every city in the world clock.Screencast Videos to get you started
Margins and Columns
In Sharp World Clock the clocks can be arranged any way you like - as a horizontal line or a vertical row and any type of grid. The distance between the clocks is changed with the "Margin" slider in the settings dialog.
Adding Clocks
Adding new clocks is easy: just select "Add" from the menu in one of the clocks - a new clock is added to the clock array - click the "Select City" button and set the new city
Undocking Clocks
You can undock clocks from the main window and place them anywhere on the desktop. After being undocked, they can be docked again. This is just one of the many magic features of Sharp World Clock.
Variable Date/Time Format and Design - multiple Hands and Clock Face Options; 24 Hours Clocks
This world clock features 13 variations of hour/minute hands and 10 variations for second hands available and 6 variations for numerals: 4/6/12 positions upright, 12 positions rotated, 4/12 roman numerals.
24 Hour Clock
The last clock shows the 24 hour mode, where the hour hand makes a full rotation in 24 instead of 12 hours.Sky Strip (day / night indicator)
The sky strip is an additional indicator for the day/night status of a city.
It shows a symbolic representation of the sun, moving at the sky from sunrise to sunset.
The height is adjustable (in the screenshot the height is set to 15 of 1..20). During the night the strip is shown black.
For users on the southern hemisphere of the earth the direction can be changed from left->right to right->left.
The sky strip can optionally show the office hours status instead (or additional to) the sky simulation. The first and the last hour of office time is shown in a different color.
Exact Time for every Time Zone or City in the World on your Desktop, with correct Daylight Saving Time (DST)
The included city database contains every city with a population of 15,000+ and every capital city.
Even an array of 21 world clocks like in this screenshot is no problem for Sharp World Clock, it can easily handle that and many more!
The clocks in the picture are using the same design, but this is not required.
After assigning a general design template to all clocks, you can make changes to some clocks, to make them look differently:
