![Image](http://thoughtjourney.aus.cc/images/dotclock.png)
The image above shows dotted_clock version 0.1 in action. The clock displays local time in binary format, as follows:
hour : minutes
To read the clock, you should understand how the binary number system works. Basically, the binary system is a positional notation with a radix of two. This means that the positional values of '1' bits are added to give the decimal equivalent. The dotclock is a true binary clock, in contrast to a binary-coded decimal clock. So, the positional values are:
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
Look at the screenshot of dotclock above. The time is:
hour: 16+4+1 = 21
mins: 32 = 32
ie: 21:32 or 9:32pm.
Code is based on binary_clock version 0.5, by
Magnus Palsson (magnus@ordkunskap.se)
Merry Christmas!