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Clocks

Last updated: 08.05.2002

Java applets to insert animated clocks in your pages. I suspect that we'll rapidly grow very tired of these things, which - until someone implements a Web browser you can wear on your wrist - serve no useful purpose whatsoever. But it was a good learning experiment.

DigitalClockApplet

This applet inserts a digital clock in the page. The appearance of the clock (font, colors etc.) can be controlled through parameters. Inspect the source code for this page to see an example.

Digital Clock This is a Java applet implementing a digital clock. Your browser has not displayed it because it does not support Java, or because you have switched Java off.

Default appearance of digital clock. Clock displays local time by default.

Digital Clock This is a Java applet implementing a digital clock. Your browser has not displayed it because it does not support Java, or because you have switched Java off.

Variation showing European date, time zone set to 3 hours ahead of Greenwich, and clock face hidden so that clock appears as plain text.

Documentation and Sources

AnalogClockApplet

An extension of the clock idea, this time using graphics to draw a crude analog clockface.

Analog Clock This is a Java applet implementing an analog clock. Your browser has not displayed it because it does not support Java, or because you have switched Java off.

Default appearance of clock (plus white clockface). Clock displays local time by default.

Analog Clock This is a Java applet implementing an analog clock. Your browser has not displayed it because it does not support Java, or because you have switched Java off.

Changing colours, time zone set to two hours behind Greenwich.

Documentation and Sources

Both types of clock are based on a ClockApplet class, which is in turn based on the ExtendedApplet class, which provides parameter parsing facilities.