The idea here is that many people (like me, unfortunately) set their clocks ahead in the hopes of being on time more often. The problem here is that if you yourself set the clocks ahead, you already know how much extra time you have. If you get clever and let someone else do it for you, it won't take long to figure out what your time buffer is. So, David postulates, what we really need is a clock that is sometimes fast, but not necessarily.
The Procrastinator's Clock has the potential to be up to 15 minutes fast, but it just as easily could be exactly accurate, assuming your computer's time is accurate. This means that you basically have to assume that it is correct, and you will likely show up for meetings or appointments with some small amount of time to spare, rather than walking in 5 minutes late and having to apologize profusely.
Now I just wish someone would implement a version that manipulates my system time on my computer in the same way.
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1-21-2007 @ 2:18PM
Dave Seah said...
Just want to make sure you're not confusing me with with actual legendary designer Dave Shea, since I'm not a web designer. Similar spelling, different person. Thanks for the writeup, glad you liked it!
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1-21-2007 @ 8:41PM
Jason Hodulik said...
This is actually extremely clever. I'd love to see a feature like this implemented into an actual tabletop clock. My laptop just isn't up often enough to be reliable for this. Good work, Dave :)
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1-22-2007 @ 12:18AM
Adam Chamness said...
Reering to your final statement about the system clock being set up in a similar way as the program...I believe it should be possible with Samurize and the System Clock Launcher. Currently I've setup a fuzzy clock to replace my windows system tray clock. Samurize runs on visual basic scripts, so i imagine programming sometihng with identical functionality would be very do-able. Maybe Mr. Seah himself can download Samurize and the clock launcher plugin and give it a whirl!
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1-22-2007 @ 2:56AM
Adam Chamness said...
Re: the last sentence about making the system clocok have this functionality.
It's most likely possible with Serious Samurize and it's system tray launcher plugin. Right now I have a fuzzy clock replacing my normal system tray clock. Samurize uses visual basic script for its "widgets", so programming something like this to repalce your system clock should be do-able. Perhaps Dave could port his code over to a Samurize plugin.
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