 |
| Day clock on my Lumia 950. Click the image to load the new Day Clock. |
I managed to export the data from the Perpetual Calendar for the BBC microcomputer using BeebEm and then wrote a script to convert the data from a BBC text file into a JSON file. The data contains the dates of various interesting anniversaries, and so I thought it would be a nice touch to show these on the new day clock, including a calculation of how long ago the event took place. For example today is the 41 year anniversary of the UK Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
BeebEm has some really useful tools, most notably the 'export' function which allows you to export one or more files from a BBC disk image to a PC format. This means that I can code a file on the BBC microcomputer, but still access or edit it on my Windows 10 machine. Yay!
I then added in 'red-letter' days, or other recurring events including holidays and Pagan festivals (from Pagan Calendar). I cannot be absolutely sure I haven't made any errors here, but I'll keep checking that this works and then add some more date/time information as and when.
The final touch was to put the current time into the new page tab so you can check the time in your list of browser tabs without navigating back to the page.
Well that's it for now. In the future I may add some other features, perhaps a background image that changes with each passing month. Maybe I shall put a Google search box in, or other widgets such as weather. Maybe I'll just sack it off and build something else.
Come back soon for more nerdy stuff.
If you liked this post, then you might also like to watch some bouncing balls, or just play a game of Have Spell Will Travel.