Questions tagged [clock]
The clock tag is used for challenges specifically related to clocks and the display of absolute time. Usually it should not be used for challenges about relative time.
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Convert angle to clock time
Your task is to make a program or function that takes a nonnegative integer (or a different convenient format to represent it) that represents an angle measure in degrees from 0 to 180 (inclusive) as ...
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Stepping Through Time
Given a 24 hour time, e.g. 20:48, output the nearest time where each adjacent pair of digits has an absolute difference of 1, e.g. 21:01.
That is, each number in the output must differ from the ...
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Analog clock using braille UTF8 characters [closed]
Inspired by Braille graphics and Build an analog clock.
The goal there is to create a tool that use terminal console to draw and animate a clock by using UTF-8 fonts ...
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Read an ASCII clock
Related to, but not a duplicate of, this challenge.
Basics
This is a clock:
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Match the Striking Clock
Introduction:
At home we have a clock that strikes the stated amount at each hour, but also strikes once at every half-hour. So from 0:01 to and including 12:00 it strikes in this order:
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Output the hours at 90 degrees
Today while playing with my kids I noticed that an apparently simple toy in the park hid a challenge.
The wheel has a triangle that points to a number, but also has three circles that point to the ...
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Mirrored Digital Clock
Many digital clocks display the time using simplified digits comprised of only seven different lights that are either on or off:
When mirrored horizontally, the digits ...
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How many times will a bell tower ring?
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A bell tower will ring its bells every hour, n times, with n being the the current hour on a 12 hour clock.
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Risky Phone Plan
You have a phone plan that lets you talk 180 minutes a day. Every day that you go over your daily limit you have to pay a fine of F = Men, where M is the number of minutes you went over and n is the ...
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Digital Clock Matches Puzzle
There are many puzzles with matches that involve adding, removing, or moving a certain number of matches to create new numbers or shapes. This is like that with a digital clock.
Given a valid time on ...
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ASCII clock with dot & comma time markers
Introduction
Imagine that line of chars is in fact two rows. Upper row - dots - represents hours (24 hour system), while lower - commas - represents minutes. One character can represent hour, minute ...
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Arithmetic... tock... tick... tock
This question brought to you by a game I like to play when stuck in long phone meetings.
Given any two times from a 24 hour clock (from 00:00 to 23:59), how many valid mathematical equations can be ...
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Make a working digital clock with ascii numbers [duplicate]
The challenge is make a digital clock that exhibits ascii numbers in a 24-hour format like:
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What time is it? [closed]
I really hate looking up to the top right of the screen to look at the time on OS X's clock widget; I'd much rather keep my eyes at least somewhere near my workspace to check the time. I also hate ...
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Angle between the hands on a clock [duplicate]
Given the time in 24 hour format (2359 = 11:59pm) return the angle between the minute and hour hands on a standard clock (on the ...
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