This Newt's Cape example displays the current time and date for the current location, and counts down until several "interesting" dates (like Ellie's Count Down). In addition to the usual Std (Standard) Time format, you can view times as Swatch Internet Time -- labeled here as "Inet Time@" -- which divides the day into a thousand "beats"; the "time" at any moment is the same value everywhere; 0 is midnight in Switzerland, not Greenwich.
This Newton-specific version uses a city picker, time and date pickers, and dynamic update fields instead of regular input fields; and NewtonScript instead of JavaScript (as in Swatch converter). Set i:General:NewtonScript to Compile, so Newton form objects will appear and work. For MP130 Portrait, turn on preference Other Options:Ignore Tables; otherwise, columns will be too narrow. This converter ignores seconds, rounds rather than truncates, and uses built-in (hopefully accurate) time zone and offset data for the calculations -- so results may differ slightly from other converters.
If you need to correct your daylight savings time, you might use Daylight Savings 2.1.
Displays your current city, and updates the current time and date every ~10 seconds. Change your current Newton location and clock via the Time Zones and Clock icons/links. It updates several countdown fields:
Select a different city, and view the current time and date there, as both standard time and Inet Time@.
Select/enter a time and date (for earlier selected city) and convert between standard and Inet values. Use a date between Jan 1, 1904 and Dec. 31, 2099. (Dates after that can't be converted properly -- see Min. to 2100).
This document (in all its formats) is © 1998-2007. Steve Weyer. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. You are free to use this in your own documents, but I would appreciate an acknowledgement of Newt's Cape and the example.
Last updated: Dec 2000