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UTC Global Clock at a Glance
UTC Global Clock features many time-related functions, including time displays, hourly chimes, timers, stopwatches, calendars, and more. Highlights are illustrated below.
Time Displays
UTC Global Clock will display Universal Time — and/or any world time zone(s) — in any corner of your screen, the menu, and/or the Dock. Time displays feature extensive configurability, and you may specify unique values for each time display. If you prefer not to configure your time displays, you may select from many useful pre-defined time and date formats.
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| Menu bar time displays. All time displays have menus featuring calendars and allowing full control of UTC Global Clock. | |||
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| Screen corner time displays, stacked in the lower-right screen corner. Screen corner displays may be shown in any or all screen corners, and they get out of your way if you need to see what's behind them. | Specify the appearance of any time display with drag & drop ease. Each time display may display time differently, and you may set a default time format if you like. | ||
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Hourly Chimes
Play sounds at any number of minutes past the hour. Save, load, share, and schedule groups of chimes called chime sets. Use any sound format that QuickTime supports on your system, and store your sounds in custom locations, if desired. Pause chimes for any time period you like.
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| Menu bar time displays. All time displays have menus featuring calendars and full control of UTC Global Clock. | Chimes and Chime Sets | ||
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Easy-to-Use Timers
Quickly set up a timer to remind you in a certain number of minutes (“My spouse called and I’m picking her up in 40 minutes”), or at a certain local or UTC time (“Totality begins at 3:02:14 UTC Friday”). Timers can minimize to a selectable screen corner, can appear in independent windows and/or a multiple-timer window, and can be dragged to change the location or the window containing them.
Timers can alert you with sound, an alert message, both, or neither. Timers keep running when you resume UTC Global Clock, so you won’t lose a timer because you had to restart your machine after a software update. You may also “snooze” a timer for a user-selectable number of minutes.
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| A small, independent timer window keeps running, even if you quit and re-open UTC Global Clock or restart your computer. | Save screen real estate by placing multiple timers in a single window. All timers are editable while they are running, and can be dragged into independent windows if desired. | ||
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Global, High-Resolution Stopwatches
Rapidly create stopwatches with 0.01-second precision. Count up to a specified elapsed time, down to zero from a starting duration, or up to infinity. Pause and resume stopwatches with a click, and view a stopwatch in front of all other open windows and/or alongside other stopwatches in a single window.
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| Floating stopwatch windows appear in front of all other windows. Click to pause, resume, and adjust the stopwatch. | |||
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| Place multiple stopwatches into a single multiple stopwatch window, in independent floating windows, or in any combination of the two. | Minimize a floating stopwatch window so that it really saves screen space. | ||
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Calendars
Single-month and multiple-month (continuous) calendars are available in all time display menus, and as standalone windows. Create as many calendars as you like, and configure calendars to your liking — right down to the color of each calendar component.
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| A continuous calendar appears in this menu. All time displays have menus, offering you system-wide access to UTC Global Clock’s functionality. | Create as many Quick Calendar windows as you need, and resize them to any size — even as large as your screen. | ||
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About UTC Global Clock
UTC Global Clock was originally written for amateur astronomers and shortwave radio listeners, although it has become popular with everyone who wants simple, flexible time display(s) and time-related functions on their Macs.
The below screen shot shows the menu that may be summoned from any time display. You may create as many menu time displays as you have room for, and you may display as many screen corner time displays as you like, in any corner(s) of the screen. As shown below, screen corner displays can match their surroundings.
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| The above example shows a single menu bar time display at the top, and 7 screen corner displays at the bottom. All time displays have an associated menu; you can see the menu that was summoned by clicking on the menu bar time display. Various timers and stopwatches appear on the left. |
Partial Feature Listing
Here is a partial listing of UTC Global Clock’s feature set:
- Support for Worldwide Daylight Saving Time: UTC Global Clock comes with 17 different daylight saving time rules, representing practically every time zone in the world. And you can define new daylight saving time rules and modify existing rules as needed for special applications.
- List-Based Country and Region Time Zones: As supplied, UTC Global Clock supports well over 300 named countries, regions, and time zones. Define a custom GST offset in 0.25-hour increments.
- Flexible Display Options: Display as many menu bar time displays as space allows. Define a virtually unlimited number of screen corner time displays.
- Advanced Interface Mode: Time display attributes may be set via a simple or advanced interface, depending on how much customization you require.
- Hourly Chimes: Play sounds at any number of minutes past the hour. Set a separate alert sound— or even multiple and/or overlapping sounds — for each chime.
- Easy-to-Use Timers: Quickly set up a timer to remind you in a certain number of minutes, a certain local time, or a specific UTC time.
- Global, High-Resolution Stopwatches: Rapidly create unlimited, high-resolution stopwatches.
- Live Updating from Preferences: When you make a change to any of UTC Global Clock’s settings, the change is immediately shown in all time displays, menus, and calendar windows. Instantly see the results of changing a setting, without having to save your preferences first. And you still have the option of canceling your changes if you don’t like what you see.
- Low Power Mode: Processor cycles equate to power usage, and so the program offers a low power mode that consumes fewer CPU cycles. UTC Global Clock always yields processor time to other applications that need it, so it never slows down your system.
- Highly Customizable Time and Date Formats:
- Specify unique values for each time display
- Select from useful pre-defined time and date formats
- Show numeric values with or without leading zeroes
- Show a.m./p.m. or 24-hour time
- Hide or show month name in numeric, abbreviated, or full format
- Display the day of the year
- Display the year as a two- or four-digit number
- Display full or abbreviated weekday
- Define custom time and date separators
- Create time display prefixes and suffixes
- Insert special characters anywhere in the display
- Display a flag when the displayed date differs from the local date; and more.
- Extensive Time Display Appearance Options: Select typeface, size, text color, background color, vertical and horizontal adjustment, help tag, text prefix, and window shadow. Stack the time displays both horizontally and vertically, and align all time displays with one another. Even customize the text representing a.m. and p.m., and much more.
- Match Surroundings: Specify that a display should match its surroundings, even as those surroundings change color, as shown below:
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| In this example, 6 screen corner displays have been set up to display, left-to-right: local time, the four continental U.S. time zones, and Universal Time. |
- Multiple Monitor Support: If you have multiple monitors, select which display should hold any given time display. Mix and match time displays on as many monitors as you like.
- Automatically Open at Login: Configure UTC Global Clock to automatically start when you login to your computer.
- “Switch to Finder” option automatically returns to the Mac OS X Finder when the program opens.
- Automatic or Manual Update Checks: Schedule an update check for a certain time interval, or check for updates to UTC Global Clock anytime via a menu selection or button press.
- Auto-Hide: UTC Global Clock’s screen corner displays can disappear when the mouse enters a display region. This is handy when you need to get to a control that’s located under a time display.
- Calendar Support: Menu and screen corner time displays contain system-wide menus that can show the current month, as well as previous and following months. Select a month from the menu to open a larger, independent calendar window.
- Works in Shared Environments: Read from and write to a shared preferences file.
- Mac OS X Dock-Aware: UTC Global Clock for Mac OS X positions its screen corner displays according to the visibility and location of the Dock. It can also display UTC or standard time in the Dock icon. The Dock icon may also be hidden if desired.
- Configurable Safety Checks and Help: Suppress warning dialogs on a per-dialog basis, and reset them to again show all warning dialogs. Help tags (“tool tips”) may also be enabled or disabled application-wide.
- Customizable Colors and Positions: The program offers extensive control over calendar, time display and Dock icon colors. Screen corner time displays may also be “fine tuned” in both the vertical and horizontal direction.
- Copy, Paste, Duplicate, and Remove Time Displays: Apply one time display’s attributes to another time display. Change only one option among all time displays, and effortlessly manage multiple time displays.
System Requirements
UTC Global Clock is available for Mac OS X. Other requirements include:
- Macintosh with an Intel or PowerPC processor.
- At least 30 MB available hard disk space.
- 640 x 480 resolution monitor (14”) or larger.
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
What Does it Cost?
UTC Global Clock is free to try, and it runs in demonstration mode for 12 hours. Then, you can extend the demo period as many times as you like, with a single click each time.
If you find UTC Global Clock useful (and who wouldn't?), it's only $12.95 USD for two years of free updates, and you can register using our secure store or PayPal.
Visit our registration page or our site licensing page.