Feature: “horizontal” one-hour widget

[XanderLeaDaren]

Here’s an idea: what about providing a 1x1 (or 2x1) widget showing the current Roman hour?

As a bonus, we could get a coloured background depending on the moment of the day, à la SunPosWidget3x1, and even a mark to tell when in the hour it is now – since there are no subdivisions of Roman hours, as far as I know.

Below is a quick try to put words into image, using the actual SunPosWidget3x1 as a start – hence the Sun mark 😉 Up there it means:

• we’re approximately 2/3 through the XII-th hour of the day,
• civil twilight is about to happen,
• the previous hour was daylight,
• the next one will be twilight/night

[forrestguice]

Neat suggestion!

btw, I have read about a medieval time unit call a "moment", by dividing the hour into four parts, and then dividing that into ten (so 40 moments to the hour). Take a moment to consider that. ;) Its pretty curious (romantic even), but I'm not sure it has a place in the app...

The same source referred to the roman hour as an "artificial hour", as it was arrived at by "the artifice of the sundial". Now that definition just seems a little backward to me. :D