Earth clock

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Earth Clock
Developer(s) Arjan Dikhoff
Initial release7 February 2004;18 years ago (2004-02-07)
Stable release
1.4.1 / 21 March 2004;18 years ago (2004-03-21)
Repository
Written in Python
Operating system Windows 2000, XP
Size 4.3 MB
Available inEnglish
License GPL
Website earthclock.xentax.com

Earth Clock is a computer program that will display a map of the Earth showing the zones where is day and where is night. [1] It was released by Xentax Foundation on February 7, 2004, [1] [2] and programmed by Arjan Dikhoff. Its source code can be found at SourceForge. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "EarthClock". Archived from the original on 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  2. "XeNTaX » Blog Archive » EarthClock version 1.0 Beta released!". www.xentax.com. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  3. "EarthClock". SourceForge. Retrieved 2018-09-18.