The World Time Globe - by Blueman Steele
I'd started with a cube.
"OK, I'll have it tell the local time"
(Wait, whose local time?)
"OK, I'll have it tell time by time zone!"
(All 24 sure, but what about daylight saving time?)
"OK, it will look at the time of year, then the timezone, and depending on..."
*deletes cube... *rezzes sphere
The World Time Globe is a "simple" real time representation of sunlight falling on the earth. Pulling from GMT it calculates 1 spin of the "globe".
A colaborative effert between myself and Jenden Marat --new to SL but not to programming and math-- he did the hard work with math while I made it appealing with textures (though he'll tell you the reverse).
I really could not get the math, while he did not get the textures. Truely a collaborative effort. There is so much fear of co-dependancy and a stress on independence, that often the joy of "interdependance" is lost.
A thin green line marks the international date line, while red slashes mark the GMT time zone. Day and night are simplifed to a dark half that floats over one side.
Here I say things that the numbers could not show me. The sun is always rising, the sun in always setting, and somewhere, someone, is always up too late.
In the _blacklibrary
A copy of Blueman's World Time Globe has pride of place, hanging in the main hall of the _blacklibrary. Now we'll always know when we're up too late
