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World clock

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World clock

A world clock is a clock which displays the time for various cities around the world. The display can take various forms:

  • The clock face can incorporate multiple round analogue clocks with moving hands or multiple digital clocks with numeric readouts, with each clock being labelled with the name of a major city or time zone in the world.
  • It could also be a picture map of the world with embedded analog or digital time-displays.
  • A moving circular map of the world, rotating inside a stationary 24-hour dial ring. Alternatively, the disc can be stationary and the ring moving.
  • Light projection onto a map representing daytime, used in the Geochron, a brand of a particular form of world clock.
  • There are also worldtime watches, both wrist watches and pocket watches. Sometime manufacturers of timekeepers erroneously apply the worldtime label to instruments that merely indicate time for two or a few time zones, but the term should be used only for timepieces that indicate time for all major time zones of the globe.

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    World clock Wikipedia