Great gadget, you guys. Works just as I had hoped, one request though. Sometimes I need to mute my laptop and then I forget it is muted. Is there any visual alarm in the gadget, or have you considered adding one?

I just downloaded this gadget and really like it. I want to echo the requests to have an alarm event title so I know what I'm supposed to be worried about.

Second, I am using this clock to track appointments in GMT (not my time zone). I changed the gadget clock display to GMT and incorrectly assumed the alarms would operate off the gadget clock settings. It appears the alarm operates off the system clock settings. I will manually recalculate the alarm times, but it would be really handy if I could program the alarm time in whatever timezone and the gadget would 'make it work.'

Is there a way to add my custom holidays? I can create an event, but not my own holiday. All the holidays on the list are useless for me.

I think it would be better if the events(or holidays) are being displayed on the calendar itself once created?

This gadget's really handy except there's one problem! My events don show up in my calendar section! i tried clicking on both 'day' and 'month' but all it display was: no event for this day or no event for this month; I still do see my events in the 'list event' section nevertheless, but that includes alll the events i've set up. Its quite a trouble to alternate between the 2 sections.. and it can be quite ineffective when i just want to keep track of the events happening in that month, like which day the event date falls on.. etc.. really could do some help here! thanks a mil!

Win 7, Up to date. I have uninstalled, downloaded and instelled the gadget again. Time zones west to GMT are displied wrong (east from GMT, Europe for example is OK). Display format Label/Time does not work - removes all added clocs.
I have been using and enjoing this gadget for a long time but now I remove it.

Hi there, same problem here.
Latest Windows updates installed are

KB976264 (03/03/2010)

KB978637 (03/03/2010)

KB979306 (03/03/2010) - this is the most probable one to cause the problem. It fiddles with the time zone feature...

KB976662

Date & Time v 1.2, found world GMT time is inccorrected? for example to set on Jerusalem (GMT +2 ..) but display clock time incorrected??
pls kinldy help, thanks.

Thanks for the gadget, really good stuff.

My only suggestion would be to add a "fortnightly" recurrence option for events - something I've been trying to find in calendar apps for a whiel now.

Thanks

I am using Date&Time V1.2

I hope you can add more Formatting features for the Label, Date/Time separately. I'd like to see the Label having it's own Font/Size/Color separate from the Date/Time's Font/Size/Color for better reading.

Since you are using XML, why not make it fully customizeable like Left Justified, Center Justified, Right Justified, Label+Date/Time in One-Line (if they can fit) etc..

I have done the things suggested and it is still out by 2 hours. All other countries with GMT +8 are the correct time but Perth comes up 2 hours different. Can it have something to do with DLS?

The time for Perth Western Australia is incorrect, it shows 2 hours later than it actually is.

I don't know if this is of any help/use/interest, but I thought it interesting, myself. I came across an analog clock display on a webpage... it's built as an SWF, less than 2K. The second hand is a constant movement, not a 'tick'... the minute hand ticks (a little), the hour hand moves along appropriately. It's on a webpage for a news screensaver...
http://www.etn.nl/screensavers/news

That did it. Thanks again!!

Forgot to add that I am using Windows 7 Prof.

Great gadget. I use it all the time.

I do have a small issue. When I click the calendar icon, the calendar opens for a fraction of a second and then closes immediately. No matter what I do, it just refuses to stay open. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the gadget but no luck so far.

I will appreciate a solution to the issue. Thanks a bunch in advance.

Hello,
I like ur gadget, even when its still in 1.1 version. However just a thought, I am now currently using deepfreeze to lock up my C drive. Is there a way to save my alarm setting (xml file) to a diffrent directory? it would certainly be a hassle to unlock deepfreeze whenever i need to update my alarm. (is there a way I can modify it myself?)

Win7 amd64 The clock has stopped - will only change when I open and close options menu.

Hey... thanks for the info. I just thought you were taking a lot of flak on the image replacement thing.

Cool on the halfway hour hand update.
I just threw that editing note in for 'completeness' :)

Anyway... I note that, if you don't manually 'off' the alarm... it's like the energizer bunny... keeps going and going and... (at least for as long as I was willing to test it... which wasn't long).
So I thought an -option- for a user-set timeout/off (quick or long, secs or mins) ...would be good, in case it's unattendedly annoying or whatever. ;) (Plus maybe someone just wants a short 'blip' reminder)

Thanks for the gadgets!

Is there a 'timeout' on the alarm? or could you add one? ...just a thought.

Hmmm... ya know, if you add a one-time alarm, and snooze it... it no longer shows in the alarm list.
You're gonna have to wait... to 'off' it (to delete it ;)... but, only upto 20 minutes (max snooze).

And, once you have an alarm set, you can let it go, or delete it... no edit, as far as I can tell.

So... there might be a feature/fix, or two, to add? ;)

Notes:

For everyone complaining about the hour hand... well, yeah. But, if I understand "image replacement" right... how would y'all like to draw 60 images for 12 hours (720 images)... (or with a second hand, 60x60x12,maybe?). Tedious.
Yes, well... shoulda, coulda, woulda derived it programmatically... guess they didn't... as in 'free'.

However, the Analog option is kinda 'buried' anyway... a little hard to find.
Settings, Options, Clocks, Add (or Edit), Clock Format, Analog/Label. And second hand visible is under 'Basic'.

Lastly, on -my- system... the analog face blinks every second anyway, whether there is a 'second-hand' visible or not. Guess that's 'image replacement' ;) :(

But I gone digital from the beginning. :)

I use BuildaGadget's digital setting, 40% opaque... and the Microsoft analog. :) Works well for one location.

I had Date & Time 1.1 running still. Oops.
So I went to Settings, Update... Check for gadget updates... and it told me Congratulations. etc.
Oh well. I closed it and unstalled, downloaded/installed 1.2.

Hello
I love your gadget but :
1°/ the weeks number are not good this year (if we use outlook as a reference)

2°/can we have the week start the Monday as an option (Europe ...)

Thanks

Try to full reset, still not rite.

Try uninstall and download from this site, install again, still not rite.

Check with Win7 Date and Time Additional Clocks, all okay, nothing wrong.

Maybe I wait until I get my Win7 Ultimate and try again.

Suhardi, have you tried a full on reset of the XML file for the gadget as well? Settings -> Help -> Follow the instructions on the bottom and delete all of the files in the directory.

There are two possibilities: The first is that the clocks are still somehow set to their offsets instead of their region codes, a full reset should be able to disprove this or fix the issue.

The second is that your computer is feeding faulty time data into the gadget. Not likely, but still possible as the gadget is only as accurate as the data from the sidebar API.

Try a full reset though, I have a funny feeling those clocks still aren't getting set to their appropriate region codes somehow.

Already try to reset the clock and the problem still there...
The results still same, GMT+7/Bangkok, Jakarta late 5 hrs from the rite time (local) and GMT+8/Singapore late 3 hrs from the rite time (GMT+8/Beijing, Hongkong)

Hi Suhardi, Try resetting the clocks and then adding them again. To do this, go to the Settings panel, click the Reset tab, click 'Restore Gadget Clocks'. Then just add your clocks again. Hopefully this will fix the problems you're having. Please let us know if you continue to see the same.

I use Win7 RC 32bit (will use Win7 Ult 64bit - no stock at this time).

My computer timezone is UTC +7 (Bangkok, Jakarta).

When I try the gadget with several timezone, some of the timezone display the wrong date/time.

Example, my comp date/time (local/GMT+7): Nov 14, 1:00 AM.

If I use timezone "local", the date/time : Nov 14, 1:00 AM. ===> OK
If I use timezone "GMT +7/Bangkok, Jakarta)", the date/time : Nov 13, 8:00 PM. ===> Wrong
If I use timezone "GMT +8/Beijing, Hongkong", the date/time : Nov 14, 2:00 AM. ===> OK
If I use timezone "GMT +8/Singapore), the date/time : Nov 13, 11:00 PM. ===> Wrong

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Thanks for the quick reply guys! I set up 5 event reminders that kick off weekly. Mission accomplished! To that point though if you guys can add a day selection check box for the alarm for the new version and a start and end date (which would work for chestercl's semester issue :)) that would rock. It's still my one and only alarm clock. Nice work guys.

Hi Duli, The recurring option for the alarm is something that we need to address. That said, you can set up a workaround using Events instead of Alarms as they have a weekly recurring option. When we have updated the Alarm options, we will post here. Let us know if you have any other thoughts or suggestions.

guys...this has been my alarm clock for a long while now...and a big improvement for me was to have the alarm go off just monday through friday.
To Chestercl's response, I was trying to acomplish what I needed by making 5 alarms for every working day and have them repeat weekly but unfortunately the repeat options are daily monthly and yearly. Do I need to set up 20 alarms to get what I need?

Same criticism as for the System Control gadget, show something representative of what the gadget looks like not some nonsensical icon. Having said that this application can be so good in so many ways, mainly the calendar but so poor in others such as the display limitations of the clock, in particular the analog clock. It's really pretty half-baked.

Really? How hard can it be to make a working hour hand? As a developer, I can tell you it is not complex. I don't think you should have even put it in if you weren't going to make it work. The rest looks great though.

Hi TomC. The issue that you describe is due to the fact that we needed to use image replacement to generate the analog clock. This was done as to support the multiple analog clock feature which was one of the most requested features we received. We certainly understand that this is less than perfect. Please understand that because we provide our gadgets for free, we sometimes have limitations on our development. Your point about the hour hand being moved has been passed on to our development team and if it is economically feasible, we will look at implementing it. Thanks for your feedback and let us know if you have any other thoughts/suggestions.

The non-moving hour hand on the analog clock is a very serious flaw. The whole point of an analog display is to be able to quickly see an approximate value. With your analog clock the answer is wrong, by a full hour, half of the time. If you can't come up with a good fix, it would be a small improvement to move the hour hand at the half-hour point. And guess what - good programming IS tedious and time consuming.