Sunday, March 23, 2008

Zulu/GMT/UTC Clock Widget

After looking for a decent digital Zulu/GMT/UTC dashboard widget for quite some time I finally settled on one. It was ok but bloated and slow. I would have to wait quite a while for the widget to load whenever I brought up the dashboard. Finally I decided that I would have to take matters into my own hands and write my own. So I fired up DashCode for the first time and began hack-n-slashing at the templates to figure out what was what. What I didn't know at first was that widgets are mostly written in JavaScript which I am not at all familiar with. 

Long story short, a lot of research and trial and error later I came out with two different widgets. The first just displays the time in the system's local time and the time in Zulu. The second 
does the same but also displays the date.
I should have them up for download soon. In the mean time if you want one of them I can email it to you.