{"id":4267,"date":"2006-05-20T17:53:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2006-05-20T17:53:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-20T17:53:54","slug":"somewhere-a-clock-is-ticking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/somewhere-a-clock-is-ticking\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere a Clock is Ticking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sizable directory of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panaga.com\/clocks\/clocks.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The clock that piqued my interest was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giss.nasa.gov\/tools\/mars24\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Mars24 Sunclock on the Goddard Institute of Space Studies <\/a>page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"marsclockscreenshot521.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/marsclockscreenshot521.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"244\" align=\"right\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giss.nasa.gov\/tools\/mars24\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Mars24 is a Java program and browser applet which displays a Mars &#8220;sunclock&#8221;, a graphical representation of the planet Mars showing its current sun- and nightsides<\/a>, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of Mars and Earth and a diagram showing the solar angle for a given location on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panaga.com\/clocks\/clocks.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">(Alternate) Time Systems &#8212; Doomsday &#8212; Miscellaneous &#8212; National Debt<\/p>\n<p>Population &#8212; Sun &#8212; Planetary &#8212; Current Time &#8212; Time Lines &#8212; Countdown<\/p>\n<p>Counters\/Trackers &#8212; Clock, Counter, Countdown Code &#8212; Meta Clock Pages &#8212; Year 2000<\/a><br \/>\n(Those listed immediately above are merely section titles.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sizable directory of Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns. The clock that piqued my interest was the Mars24 Sunclock on the Goddard Institute of Space Studies page. Mars24 is a Java program and browser applet which displays a Mars &#8220;sunclock&#8221;, a graphical representation of the planet Mars showing its current sun- and nightsides, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41],"tags":[4935,21],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-apps","tag-apps","tag-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}