Polar Clock update
I’m currently working on sorting some issues with the current release of the Polar Clock. From comments feedback, it seems be an issue that the processor is under heavy use when the clock is running. Hopefully this will be aided by the porting of the existing code to AS3.
I’m looking into the following:
Using Chromo™ colours
Adding an options panel to allow turning on/off a millisecond ring, choosing different colour schemes, and lastly, choosing a locale. Also making the logo fade out after a while.
I want to add as many languages as I can get together. Help from you out there would be great.
I will need the following strings
Month names
Day names
AM / PM
minute / minutes / second / seconds
and date suffixes 1st 2nd 3rd etc right through to 31st
and also an example grammar of how to write that info correctly as the order etc may be different as in the case of East Asian languages.
If you can help, please comment here and I’ll get back to you.
Lanugages I’m after are (strikethrough denotes language already translated)
- Portugese
- Norwegian
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Korean
- Polish
- Greek
- German
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Hungarian
- French
- Dutch
- Spanish
- Italian
- Swedish
- Finnish
- Japanese
- Slovakian
- any more that people can provide…
76 Comments so far
Hi,
I could contribute by providing a Dutch version. French and German would also be possible, but I’m not a native speaker of those two languages…
i would like ‘Indonesia’ to be included
and i can help you out 
German:
Month names/ Monatsnamen:
Januar
Februar
März
April
Mai
Juni
Juli
August
September
Oktober
November
Dezember
Day names/ Name des Tages:
Montag (in Germany the week beings on monday))
Dienstag
Mittwoch
Donnerstag
Freitag
Samstag
Sonntag
AM: Vormittag
PM: Nachmittag
Minute / Minuten / Sekunde / Sekunden
1er, 2er, 3er …
Month names
Enero
Febrero
Marzo
Abril
Mayo
Junio
Julio
Agosto
Septiembre
Octubre
Noviembre
Diciembre
Day names
Lunes – Monday
Martes
Miercoles
Jueves
Viernes
Sabado
Domingo
AM / PM, the sames
minute / minutes / second / seconds
minuto / minutos / segundo / segundos
and date suffixes 1st 2nd 3rd etc right through to 31st
we say in Spain: 1 de Enero, 2 de Enero, …
Italian (Italiano):
MONTH: Gennaio, Febbraio, Marzo, Aprile, Maggio, Giugno, Luglio, Agosto, Settembre, Ottobre, Novembre, Dicembre
DAY: Lunedì, Martedì, Mercoledì, Giovedì, Venerdì, Sabato, Domenica
mattina, sera
minuto/minuti/secondo/secondi
Svenska (Swedish)
MONTH: Januari, Februari, Mars, April, Maj, Juni, Juli, Augusti, September, Oktober, November, December
DAY: Måndag, Tisdag, Onsdag, Torsday, Fredag, Lördag, Söndag
förmiddag, eftermiddag
minut/minuter/sekund/sekunder
Finnish:
Months: (from January to December) Tammikuu, Helmikuu, Maaliskuu, Huhtikuu, Toukokuu, Kesäkuu, Heinäkuu, Syyskuu, Lokakuu, Marraskuu, Joulukuu
Days: (from Monday to Sunday) Maanantai, Tiistai, Keskiviikko, Torstai, Perjantai, Lauantai, Sunnuntai
minuutti / minuuttia / sekunti / sekuntia
No AM/PM, we use 24-hour time here. But if you insist on using 12-hour time, just write AM/PM.
Sorry, forgot the date suffixes. Add a period after the number, like 1. 2. 3. etc.
I’ve put together Japanese:
months:
一月
二月
三月
四月
五月
六月
七月
八月
九月
十月
十一月
十二月
days:
月曜日
火曜日
水曜日
木曜日
金曜日
土曜日
日曜日
minutes: n分
seconds: n秒
AM: 午前
PM: 午後
Hungary:
Months: Január, Február, Március, Április, Május, Júnis, Július, Augusztus, Szeptember, Október, November, December.
Days (weeks starting on monday): Hétfő, Kedd, Szerda, Csütörtök, Péntek, Szombat, Vasárnap.
hour: óra
minute: perc
second: másodperc
we dont use plural on hour/minute/second.
we mainly use 24 hour time! but AM/PM is DE/DU.
hungarian date suffixes are very simple, we use a period at end of the number and this will mean that this nuber is n-th in the order. 1st=1. ; 2nd=2 ; 3rd=3. and so on
TIA!
it’s beautiful, nice work.
Amazing work with the clock!
PORTUGUESE
Months:
Janeiro
Fevereiro
Março
Abril
Maio
Junho
Julho
Agosto
Setembro
Outubro
Novembro
Dezembro
Days:
Segunda-Feira (Monday)
Terça-Feira
Quarta-Feira
Quinta-Feira
Sexta-Feira
Sábado
Domingo
Minute / Minutes / Second / Seconds
Minuto / Minutos / Segundo / Segundos
AM / PM are the same. it’s not part of our vocabulary, but in these “digital” days, it’s more then common.
and about the date suffixes, we don’t use it. only for the 1st day when we say “1º de janeiro” (january 1st). but it looks a little strange without the month right after that. so it’s ok to use only numbers with no suffixes.
sorry, i started the days beginning with monday but in Brazil and also in Portugal the week starts on sunday. and there’s no caps F for “-feira” unless you put everything on caps, of course.
here’s the correct order and writing:
Domingo (sunday)
Segunda-feira
Terça-feira
Quarta-feira
Quinta-feira
Sexta-feira
Sábado
Looking forward to the update, PB.
Do you have get over any kind of legal hurdle to use Chromo™ theory? It seems abstract enough to use without any formal permission, yet the Chromo™ site certainly claims it as intellectual property. I am curious because I am also considering the idea of using it in one form or another.
This is dope. Was just wondering if your going to make the new screensaver like the second online version.
awesome! I wish the text/numbers would stay at the top where its legible. so I don’t have to keep turning my head to the sides to “read” it. i dunno. just a thought
Joe, I don’t know about actually using Chromo™ colours, but there’s no reason I can’t just angularly shift the HSL color wheel I’m currently using, cos that would basically be chromo anyway.
I feel in upside left corner : Pixel Breaker is, may be, too big and too white and “kill” the clock and the awesome colors. could be gray or smaller. Or appear ramdomly. not?
May be the circle with hour and minutes could turn anti clockwise every minutes to be at the top for best reading
pixelbreaker, this is the single most awesome thing I have ever seen ever! It reminds me of the wristwatch display in Minority Report – and I would buy it on a wristwatch/clock like a shot.
Really looking forward to 23:59:59 on December 31st…
I personally prefer the more compact and concentric V1 layout to the V2, but that’s personal preference.
May I offer some constructive criticism though? For the first 4 minutes of the hour (and the first 5 seconds of the minute etc), the bars don’t move which impacts the at-a-glance readability of the display. Perhaps the bars could reset to zero and move across the text for the first 5 increments? This is potentially a real problem between hour 0 and 1 for instance.
And for the hour display, the hours where the text is the right way up are in the middle of the night – perhaps the display could be inverted like a speedometer paradigm rather than a traditional clock layout?
Just some thoughts and please don’t be offended. It’s a fantastic design. Anyway, all the best and keep up the good work.
I’d like to see the clock organized from fast to slow: seconds, minutes, hours, day, month, (and then year?).
I think that would make it easier to quickly grasp the time.
Great job.
in case you want to add greek, I can help you out
make this a widget!
Chinese(Traditional)
Month names
一月
二月
三月
四月
五月
六月
七月
八月
九月
十月
十一月
十二月
Day names
星期一
星期二
星期三
星期四
星期五
星期六
星期日
AM/PM
上午/下午
second, seconds/minute, minutes
秒/分
date suffixes 1st 2nd 3rd etc right through to 31st
1號、2號、….、31號
I like the first version a lot better. I wish I could download that one for windows.
Greek/Ελληνικά
Μήνες/Months:
Ιανουάριος/January
Φεβρουάριος
Μάρτιος
Απρίλιος
Μάιος
Ιούνιος
Ιούλιος
Αύγουστος
Σεπτέμβριος
Οκτώβριος
Νοέμβριος
Δεκέμβριος
Ημέρες/Day Names:
Κυριακή/Sunday
Δευτέρα
Τρίτη
Τετάρτη
Πέμπτη
Παρασκευή
Σάββατο
ΑΜ/ΠΜ
PM/MM
Minute/Λεπτό
Second/Δευτερόλεπτο
date suffixes:Not Common, avoid it.
Greek Order is: TT/DD/MM/YY
sorry,
use minutes/λεπτά seconds/δευτερόλεπτα as plural
Wow… this is fantastic! I totally love it! This would be fabulous as a wall model that you could put in a room somewhere!
10/10! Fabo peice of design!
Cheers,
Andy.
Great screensaver!! I love it. The only problem is the giant white “PIXELBREAKER” letters. The big bold letters are really distracting from the artistry. Is there no way you could remove the letters or put a small advertisement on the bottom of the page?
Korean
Month name
1월
2월
3월
4월
5월
6월
7월
8월
9월
10월
11월
12월
Day name
sunday : 일요일
월요일
화요일
수요일
목요일
금요일
토요일
Metrics
Minute : 분
Seconds : 초
Hour : 시
Day : 일
If you wonna more information
Send me E mail
I forgot somethig
am : 오전
pm : 오후
Polski:
Styczeń, Luty, Marzec, Kwiecień, Maj, Czerwiec, Lipiec, Sierpień, Wrzesień, Październik, Listopad, Grudzień
Poniedziałek, Wtorek, Środa, Czwartek, Piątek, Sobota, Niedziela.
24 hours (but if You really need: przed południem / po południu)
minuta / minuty / minut / sekunda / sekundy / sekund {
1 minuta / sekunda
2,3,4 minuty / sekundy
5,…,21 minut / sekund
for i from 2 to 6 {
i2,i3,i4 minuty / sekundy [I mean for i==2 it is 22,23,24]
i5,…,(i+1)1 minut / sekund [and here 25,...,31]
}
}
1 2 … 31
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Dutch (Nederlands):
Month names/ Maandnamen:
Januari
Februari
Maart
April
Mei
Juni
Juli
Augustus
September
Oktober
November
December
Day names/ Dagnamen:
Maandag (A lot of European countries let their week start on Monday)
Dinsdag
Woensdag
Donderdag
Vrijdag
Zaterdag
Zondag
AM: Voormiddag
PM: Namiddag
But we use 24h time instead of 12h am/pm
And you don’t necessarily have to translate AM/PM for the 12h-notation, we understand that aswell
If you would implement the 24h-notation, just put “uur” (hours, but we use it in singular form) or “u.” behind the hour.
minuut / minuten / seconde / seconden
For dates, we generally don’t use date suffixes. For example, Friday 25th May 2007 is Vrijdag 25 Mei 2007.
So no date suffixes
Danish version would be something along the lines of this:
MONTHS:
Januar
Februar
Marts
April
Maj
Juni
Juli
August
September
Oktober
November
December
DAYS:
Mandag
Tirsdag
Onsdag
Torsdag
Fredag
Lørdag (with the weird danish skewed line through an O)
Søndag (same as above)
TIMES:
Hour = Time
Minute = Minut
Second = Sekund
Russian version:
Month names:
Января
Февраля
Марта
Апреля
Мая
Июня
Июля
Августа
Сентября
Октября
Ноября
Декабря
Day names:
Понедельник (Monday)
Вторник
Среда
Четверг
Пятница
Суббота
Воскресение
minute / minutes / second / seconds:
1,21,31,41,51 – минута / секунда
2,3,4,22,23,24,32,33,34,42,43,44,52,53,54 – минуты / секунды
5,6,7,8,9,10…(remainder) – минут / секунд
We use 24h time instead of 12h am/pm:
1 hour – 1 час
2,3,4,22,23 часа
0,5,6…(remainder) часов
But if You really need:
AM – до полудня
PM – после полудня
(For example, 1 час после полудня – 1 (hour) PM)
date suffixes 1-е 2-е 3-е etc right through to 31-е
There is an error in the french version :
Minute/Minutes Seconde/Secondes
Great job !
Hi, I can add Norwegian to the list!
Here we go:
Month / Måned
Januar
Februar
Mars
April
Mai
Juni
Juli
August
September
Oktober
November
Desember
Day / Dag
Mandag
Tirsdag
Onsdag
Torsdag
Fredag
Lørdag
Søndag
We use the same strange O-character (with a diagonal line crossing it) as the Danes, and there’s also a circle above the A in “måned”.
Our week begins with Monday, and we use a 24-hour-clock. We have no AM/PM system, but you could use it anyway; we’ll understand.
Minutes / Minutter
Seconds / Sekunder
There’s no date suffixes either, just add a full stop, i.e. 29. Mai (May 29th).
That should be it, I think – you can mail me if there’s anything else you need to know. Glad to help, this clock is amazing! It really soothes me just.. watching it. Beautiful.
In Portuguese (from Brazil) would be:
Months / Meses
Janeiro
Fevereiro
Março
Abril
Maio
Junho
Julho
Agosto
Setembro
Outubro
Novembro
Dezembro
Day / Dia da semana
[abreviation]
Domingo [Dom.](starts on sunday)
Segunda [Seg.]
Terça [Ter.]
Quarta [Qua.]
Quinta [Qui.]
Sexta [Sex.]
Sábado [Sab.]
Minutes / Minutos
Seconds / Segundos
As in Norway, we use the 24h clock, but we can also understand the Am/Pm system
The days have nothing do add. Just put the number refered to the day. Ex: 1, 2, 3, …
That’s it!
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make it a dashboard widget, that would be killer!
I love this… a lot. However, one thing I noticed after using it for about a week is that I’m getting some burn in on my 20″ LCD Apple Display. Just some very subtle halos of the date and hour rings and they go away after an hour or so, but still… I do a lot of of photo retouching and it’s distracting with the halos.
I read that you’re working on allowing users to choose different color scemes. While I do love the colors of the original, I think that if the colors weren’t so drastic (hot pink, orange, green etc. over black) the burn in wouldn’t be such a problem.
Keep up the great work.
/G
Hey,I love it, and i agree very much with Andy on May 20th
I woudl liek to use this screensaver on my ubuntu linux computer, is this possible?
I’d recommend that the text always stay at the top – leaving it always easy to read – yet you still have the visuals to help with quick estimation.
Does not work under Vista =(
I thought I’d contribute with Romanian.
[Weekdays]
Luni (monday)
Marti
Miercuri
Joi
Vineri
Simbata
Duminica
[Months]
Ianuarie
Februarie
Martie
Aprilie
Mai
Iunie
Iulie
August
Septembrie
Octombrie
Noiembrie
Decembrie
second/seconds = Secunda/Secunde
minute/minutes = Minuta/Minute
hour/hours = Ora/Ore
that should be it
Your clock rocks! Great work!
You should combine the day and the june into one, and label the “june” ring as 2007. Also move sunday to the end of the week instead of the beginning.
I can help you with the Norwegian localization.
Norwegian:
Months:
Januar
Februar
Mars
April
Mai
Juni
Juli
August
September
Oktober
November
Desember
Day names:
Mandag
Tirsdag
Onsdag
Torsdag
Fredag
Lørdag
Søndag
AM / PM:
AM / PM event. use 24h clock.
minute / minutes / second / seconds:
minutt / minutter / sekund / sekunder
and date suffixes 1st 2nd 3rd etc right through to 31st:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. etc
Hey, I just found out about this at digg today. I have to say you have done a great job. I was looking for something “clockish” for my desktop and this is perfect.
Greek translation has already been made but if you need anything else I’ll be glad to help.
One question though, why does it eat my prossecor? I mean 40 percent and 90MB of RAM. Firefox is down with that.
Having a setting for 24 hour time would be good, since 24 hour time would actually make more sense in the grand scheme or the bars…
japanese 2 (old, formal and traditional ver.)
Months:
睦月
如月
弥生
卯月
皐月
水無月
文月
葉月
長月
神無月
霜月
師走
days,am,pm
same as japanese written above.
Here’s the norwegian translation:
Norwegian (Norsk)
MONTHS: Januar, Februar, Mars, April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September, Oktober, November, December
DAY: Mandag, Tirsdag, Onsdag, Torsdag, Fredag, Lørdag, Søndag
forrmiddag, ettermiddag
minutt/minutter/sekund/sekunder
(PS: In norway we use 24 H clocks :p)
On a slightly similar note, have you seen this?
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Chinese (Simplified) is exactly the same as Traditional, but instead of
1號、2號、….、31號
use
1号、2号、….、31号
Also, the weeks in Chinese start with 星期一 as the first day. Same for Traditional.
Perhaps when a bar passes the “3 o’clock” position, the text could flip over – bottom of text on the outside of the ring rather than the inside. Then when the bar passes 9 o’clock it could flip back.
Oh, and I like one of the previous post’s suggestions about the first few ticks – maybe the bar could actually start at 0-1-2-3 ticks, etc, and the text that extends over the end of the bar is in white, then changes to black as the bar absorbs it, then it ’sticks’ to the end of the bar as it does now.
If you want more of a challenge, how about making the flash version resizeable – so that it could be placed on the desktop as an object (for example, using active desktop in XP). I suppose the challenge would be the text size – it could decrease in increments, and below a certain size disappear – after a while you can ‘read’ the clock by the bar positions if you use it often.
Since that might be a lot of work, perhaps a mini version that fits in a square? Either without the Pixel Breaker logo, or with the logo inside next to the date wheels.
:::. Fantaztico .::
Nice Work ……..Looking Sharp…….
I love this clock already.
My only bug is it needs more colors. In my opinion, you should try looking at the Tango Desktop Project’s colors. They’re quite vibrant and useful when utilized the right way.
Great clock! I’m thinking about creating a Yahoo! Widget based on that concept but I need to get your permission to distribute it to public first. Please let me know if I can do so.
Hey yyy, you beat me to it, I was about to post that exact same thing
and here in Afrikaans. hope you’d consider it.
Days::
maandag (monday)
dinsdag
woensdag
donderdag
vrydag
saterdag
sondag
Months::
januarie (january)
februarie
maart
april
mei
junie
julie
augustus
september
oktober
november
desember
AM: VM
PM: NM
minute: minuut
minutes: minute
second: sekonde
seconds: sekondes
no suffixes for numbers
does anyone know the email to contact the creator of the Polar Clock?
Hungarian ones
days starting with monday:
hétfô
kedd
szerda
csütörtök
péntek
szombat
vasárnap
months
január
február
március
április
május
június
július
augusztus
szeptember
október
november
december
AM: de
PM: du
minute(s): perc
second(s): másodperc
hour(s): óra
dot instead of prefix (eg. 1., 2., …)
most likely 24 hour clock.
I’d like to provide Thai Language
Month[Jan->Dec] : มกราคม กุมภาพันธ์ มีนาคม เมษายน พฤษภาคม มิถุนายน กรกฎาคม สิงหาคม กันยายน ตุลาคม พฤศจิกายน ธันวาคม
Month_Abbr[Jan->Dec] : ม.ค. ก.พ. มี.ค. เม.ย. พ.ค. มิ.ย. ก.ค. ส.ค. ก.ย. ต.ค. พ.ย. ธ.ค.
Day[Sun-Sat] : อาทิตย์ จันทร์ อังคาร พุธ พฤหัสบดี ศุกร์ เสาร์
Day_Abbr[Sun-Sat] : อา. จ. อ. พ. พฤ. ศ. ส.
Date Suffix : No Suffix
AM/PM : 24Hr System, Or simply add AM/PM
Second : วินาที / วินาที
Minute : นาที / นาที
Hour : นาฬิกา (Time Telling) / ชั่วโมง (Count up-down)
(No difference)
Full Date : วัน _daytext_ ที่ _date_ เดือน _monthtext_ พ.ศ. _B.E.Year_
Full Time : เวลา _24hr-hour_ นาฬิกา _min_ นาที _second_ วินาที
where _B.E.Year_ = _A.D.Year_ + 543
=============
Hope these help.
[ Sound too complicated ? ]
First of all! Love the screensaver, but a a noob that I am there are some minor bugs. Not in the Flash itself, but in the setup tool. Described here:
For the next update you might want to check out one thing, especially on slower machines. Ones the screensaver opens and closes again after moving the mouse it keeps a copy in system processes, so it doesn’t terminate completely. So in the end it just keeps adding up every time you open the screensaver.
This is also by opening your screensaver settings it also opens a new POLARC~1.SCR in your system processes.
Just try it by selecting the tabs and go back to screensavers.
So your see it’s doesn’t close on closing the screensaver settings. This is due to the preview, but again this is just stacking up your memory. After a few copies in my system processes were are open, my computer freezes or turns really, really slow!
Maybe you might want to use another setup tool for Polar Clock installation!
Dennis van Lith
Dutch (Frisian – Frysk): Sub-language dutch
Frisian is a dutch language on it’s own, it’s not Dutch as many might think. Believe me we dutch have a hard time understanding this language!
Month names/ moanne namme:
jannewaris
febrewaris
maart
april
maaie
Juny
July
augustus
septimber
oktober
novimber
desimber
Day names/ dei namme:
moandei
tiisdei
woansdei
tongersdei
freed
sneon
snein
AM: same!
PM: same!
Although we use 24h time index instead of 12h am/pm
And you don’t necessarily have to translate AM/PM for the 12h-notation, we understand that aswell
If you would implement the 24h-notation, just put “oere” instead of “hour”
minút / minúten / sekonde / sekonden
For dates, we generally don’t use date suffixes.
For example, Friday 25th May 2007 is freed 25 maaie 2007. / day name / month/ date / monthname /
Goodluck!
Dennis van Lith.
Hi There,
After posting this bug on Instant Storm’s website they advised me to upgrade your installer to version 1.5.
I noticed you were still using version 1.0, please update the new installer and recompile please, those bugs are killing me…
Dennis van Lith
I like this clock.
Very nice work.
I hope i will find the clock in german^^
One question:
Does the Polar Clock v1 exist in german and online?
The same question for v2
Hi,
Where can I download polarclock in my language?
In french, there is only a date suffixe for 1st (1er) after, we say “2 Janvier”,”3 Janvier” etc…
And there isn’t AM/PM, (24 hours)
Galician Language
Month names
Xaneiro
Febreiro
Marzo
Abril
Maio
Xuño (if you can’t write ñ put nh)
Xullo
Agosto
Setembro
Outubro
Novembro
Decembro
Day names
Luns – Monday
Martes
Mercores
Xoves
Venres
Sabado
Domingo
AM / PM, the sames
minute / minutes / second / seconds
minuto / minutos / segundo / segundos
and date suffixes 1st 2nd 3rd etc right through to 31st
we say in Galicia: 1 de Xaneiro, 2 de Xaneiro, …
Portuguese
Month names
Janeiro
Fevereiro
Março
Abril
Maio
Junho
Julho
Agosto
Setembro
Outubro
Novembro
Dezembro
Day names:
Domingo Sunday
Segunda-feira Monday
Terça-feira
Quarta-feira
Quinta-feira
Sexta-feira
Sábado
AM / PM, the sames
minute / minutes / second / seconds
minuto / minutos / segundo / segundos
and date suffixes 1st 2nd 3rd etc right through to 31st
In Portugal: 1 de Janeiro, 2 de Janeiro, …
in Finnish:
months:
tammikuu
helmikuu
maaliskuu
huhtikuu
toukokuu
kesäkuu
heinäkuu
elokuu
syyskuu
lokakuu
marraskuu
joulukuu
days of the week:
maanantai
tiistai
keskiviikko
torstai
perjantai
lauantai
sunnuntai
am/pm
sekunti/sekuntia/minuutti/minuuttia
^___^
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