HELIOSYNC MERIDIAN — FUNCTIONING WEB WATCH APP
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WHAT YOU HAVE
A functioning civil-time and apparent-solar-time watch, implemented with a scalable vector dial and locally calculated astronomy. The hands, solar-noon window, date, equation-of-time pointer, digital readouts, sunrise/sunset, and Sun-bearing marker are calculated from one selected instant and location.
PHONE HOME SCREEN
On iPhone/iPad: open the hosted watch in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Enable Open as Web App if offered.
On Android: open it in Chrome, then use Install app or Add to Home screen from the browser menu. A direct installation prompt appears only when the browser offers one.
Installation and Home Screen options vary by browser and operating system.
USE LIKE A WATCH
- Watch view hides the controls and emphasizes the dial and digital readouts. Use Exit watch view or Escape to return.
- Keep screen awake requests your browser's screen wake lock. It works only on supported devices while visible and may be released by power management.
- Show/hide the seconds hand and choose 12-hour or 24-hour civil readouts. The solar-noon window always uses 24-hour time to avoid ambiguity.
- Print readings opens the browser print dialog for a snapshot of the dial and calculated values.
- This is not a phone lock-screen replacement and does not guarantee background operation.
READING THE DIAL
Silver hour/minute hands: civil time.
Thin pale seconds hand: device-clock seconds, optionally hidden.
Gold Sun hand: apparent solar time, one revolution per 24 solar hours. Noon is 12 at the top; midnight is 00 at the bottom.
Date window: civil date for the selected time zone.
Solar-noon window: calculated local meridian crossing, shown in civil time and rounded to the nearest minute.
Equation-of-time gauge: apparent minus mean solar time, with a -20 to +20 minute range.
Orange bezel marker: calculated solar azimuth, relative to the manually selected top-of-phone bearing. It dims when the Sun is below the geometric horizon.
The bezel is a diagram/manual direction reference, not a sensor-driven compass. Default 0 degrees means north-up. It does not automatically align with the real world as you turn your phone.