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History:
The project JIKANKEI (TimeToy or Time System in English) was started and participated in The First Free Biennial April, 2002. JIKANKEI is a Time browser collects and processes Internet Time data for an Art purpose. First version "The Beginning" was gathering various potential Time data for the purpose. And next “Chapter SUNDIAL JIKANKEI FUJYOU JIHOU” is the latest version.
Version 1.4.5 Bug fixed. 1. If you were in South Australia time zone(+9.5), the local date and time were wrong. 2. When a machine was in the last day of month, JIKANKEI could not get sunrise and sunset data of next day places .
Version 1.4.4: 1.Bug fixed. Conversion from decimal number of longitude and latitude was wrong.
Version 1.4.3: 1. You can set your favorite places on the Earth. 2. Linked with a longitude and latitude map, and a time zones map. 3. Adjusted for midnight sun(arctic night). 3. Added places, YAKUSHIMA and GALAPAGOS ISLANDS.
Version 1.4.2: 1. Prepared the new US daylight saving time from 2007(the Energy Policy Act of 2005). 2. Improved the controll of the background color brightness. 3. Changed 1.4 version of help image. 4. Added "About JIKANKEI FUJYO JIHOU..." of Japanese. 5. Added voice test function 6. Added the City of SEATTLE. 7. Added showing back drop colors of Windows version 8. Fixed when the background color was expanded, a frame image appeared sometimes. 9. Corrected some errata.
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.4.0: Eight background colors added. Transparent is MacOSX only. Added FUJYOJIHO Time. Added the Evening character. MacOS version is Universal binary. Windows version has close a button on FUJYOJIHO window.
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.3.1 : Put JIKANKEI into Dock(MacOSX) or Toolbar (Windows). Added redraw button icon. Transparenct window function (only MacOSX).
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.3.0 : Updated for MacOSX 10.3 Panther. Fixed Daylight saving time of Giza and Sydney. Changed redraw background area..
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.2.9b : Fixed Daylight saving time of Baghdad.
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.2.9 : Added Baghdad. Flashing evening time characters were fixed.
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.2.8 : Shows large zodiac symbols which change their transparencies by Sun directions.
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.2.7 : Added Linz.
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.2.5, 1.2.6 & 1.2.6b : Fixed some minor bugs.
Version FUJYO JIHOU 1.2.4 displays ?FUJYO JIHOU (gradually changing time)? that is before Westernized Japanese Clock System.. ?FUJYO JIHOU? divides daytime to six equal periods which an angular unit to 30 degrees is measured along the celestial equator. When it is equinox one of periods is almost two hours. However It is changed by seasons, summer time is longer and winter time is shorter. The each divided points were named to the 6 directions of zodiac symbols in day time and the 6 directions of symbols in evening, such as U (rabbit, sunrise: six gongs), TATSU (dragon, about two hours form sunrise: five gongs), MI (snake, about four hours from sunrise: four gongs), and so on. JIKANKEI 1.2.4 also shows one twelfth of daytime and one twelfth of evening time for the understanding of differences between twenty fourth even divided modern clock system.
Version Chapter SUNDIAL 1.2.3: Controls background darkness and sizes. Added Kanazawa, Japan. Background pattern of SUNDIAL is your desktop,
Version Chapter SUNDIAL 1.2.1: Improved handling Internet Connections. Fixed bugs. Added Cities.
Version Chapter SUNDIAL 1.2.0: JIKANKEI ?Chapter SUNDIAL? displays angles of the SUN and local times for cities and places on the Earth. Sunrise and sunset data are taken from US Naval Observatory Date Services through Internet.
Version The Begging 1.1.3: Fixed Saving Time Function (European Saving Time was set from the last Sunday of March to the last Sunday of October). Fixed some Typos.
Version The Beginning1.1.2: Appears Flip face and CounterClock Wise Watch by Click. Attached Progress Bar for Timer. Improved Error and Time-out handlings of data downloading.
Version The Beginning 1.1.1: Checking updated time of news sites which are New York Times on The Web, BBC News, CNN.com, and Asahi.com that is one of time date of human activities on Internet. And check for updates of JIKANKEI version were added.
Participated in FREE MANIFESTA, May 2002, Frankfurt am Main Germany. FREE MANIFESTA is produced in conjunction with MANIFESTA 4, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Version The Beginning 1.1.0d: Sunrise and sunset of Frunkfurt am Main.
Version The Beginning 1.1.0c: Added No sun phenomena of Antarctic and Arctic Circle, Internet time-out. Changed a panel color.
Version The Beginning 1.1.0b: Fixed Mac version type problems.
Version The Beginning 1.1.0: This first update of JIKANKEI was the first step into the Internet. Collected sample data of sunrise, sun transit and sundown of New York, Tokyo, Arctic and Antarctic Circles from U.S. Naval Observatory were added for one of Natural Phenomena.
Participated in The First Free Biennial April, 2002, New York
Version The Beginning 1.0.0: Created basic Time functions such as digital, analogue watch, tells "Times have changed, ..." in every an hour, and can adjust plus minus 60 seconds from machine’s system time.
June 17, 2002 Version The Beginning 1.1.3
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