The last time I checked, the population of New Zealand was about the same as the population of Los Angeles. I don’t have any data to suggest that the proportion of New Zealanders in the market for a GPS clock is markedly different than elsewhere. When developing new products, I tend to make certain assumptions about market sizes in deciding what priority to apply to feature sets.
That said, it *is* open source firmware. As for the +13 timezones, if you turn off DST, then +13 is the same as -11 for the purpose of this clock (it doesn’t display the date). The clock doesn’t currently support non-hour (that is, half- or quarter-hour) zones, again because it wasn’t a priority. If a Tongan wants to *actually* buy one, then maybe I’ll roll some custom firmware for him or her. :) > On Dec 26, 2016, at 8:27 PM, Will Kimber <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > > Sorry to rain on your parade. A good idea BUT ... > > As a new (45 years) New Zealander may I make a couple of suggestions that > folks back where I come from and others across the pond forget. > > The Pacific Ocean is large and very spread out. So the Chatham Islands, > though part of New Zealand are 45 minutes ahead of New Zealand time. That is > a real nasty and unusual time change. Plus NZ daylight time being GMT +13 > Next are the Islands making up Tonga. To keep the day consistent with New > Zealand, Australia, other Pacific Islands & Asia went to G.M.T. +13 as its > timezone a few years back. > > Cheers, > Will > > On 12/27/2016 04:40 PM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts wrote: >> I’ve finally added the power supply I’ve designed for the Thunderbolt. It’s >> a combined switching+linear design. It’s been running my own Thunderbolt for >> a while now. There’s a schematic on the store page and it can come with or >> without a 15W primary supply. >> https://www.tindie.com/products/nsayer/thunderbolt-power-board/ >> <https://www.tindie.com/products/nsayer/thunderbolt-power-board/> >> >> The second one will be up next week, and it’s a simple GPS clock. It has 7 >> seg LEDs for hour, minute, second and tenth of a second (the later is >> interpolated from the PPS). My educated guess is that the tenths are >> accurate to around 200 µs or so (the zeroeth is probably much better). It >> has support for +/- 12 hours of timezones, 12- or 24-hour time display (with >> AM and PM LEDs) and DST for US, EU or Australia (or off). It can come as a >> board-only “quick kit” (surface mount components all done and programmed, >> through-hole left for you to do), a “quick kit” with a laser cut wood and >> acrylic case and plug-in power supply, or assembled (in the case, with the >> power supply). It has an SMA jack for an external antenna (that is not >> included). 3.3V is supplied for active antennas. Board-only quick kit will >> be $59.99, assembled $99.99. I’m just waiting for the inventory of boards to >> come in before I activate that store listing. But for now, there’s the >> Hackaday project page: https://hackaday.io/project/18501-gps-clock <https://hackaday.io/project/18501-gps-clock> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> <https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> >> and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
