Does your world time watch face have this flaw?

[Six0Four]

On my new series 7 I really like the world time watch face. But there is a flaw since I started using it. If you look in my photo you will see the 22 and 24 are missing. Every time of the day it's a different number that is missing.

So I'm wondering, does yours do this too? Is there a way to fix it? My watch has been restarted and is fully up to date.

Thank you.

 

[Phil77354]

Interesting observation. When I install this watch face on my Apple Watch, it has the same defect.

 

[hg.wells]

Is that a bug or just how the clock face works, At that time was there any county listed that was at 22 or 24? It could be also be caused by countries observing daylight savings etc

 

[skyhawkmatthew]

I’m guessing this is a daylight savings artefact. Sydney and Auckland are both currently on DST, which would shift them from “22” to “23” and “24” to “1” respectively.

Do you get to modify the cities it shows? If you can, substitute Brisbane for Sydney, and Nauru for Auckland and it should straighten out.

If not, then I guess someone at Apple forgot about antipodean DST…

 

[Phil77354]

Good points. I haven't thought this through in great detail but when I was looking at the watch face example shown in the Face Gallery of the Watch app, it did not have this 'issue' (a few hours ago).

I don't think it matters which countries are listed. The brief description of this watch face in the gallery states "this face lets you track the time in all 24 time zones at once" so the intention is clearly that it will have 24 different time zones listed - but the complication of DST vs no DST sounds like a good possibility if this display is working as intended.

 

[Phil77354]

Ah, I think I have figured it out - and the suggestion that it is reflecting DST is correct, I think.

Reason I believe this is that the face now shows duplicated/missing time marks at a different point on the dial - at the moment my watch face is showing 2 - 4 - 4 - 6 - 6, in other words skipping 3 o'clock, repeating 4 o'clock, and so forth. That is clearly a result of how the face is programmed to evolve during the day.

 

[hg.wells]

Ah, I think I have figured it out - and the suggestion that it is reflecting DST is correct, I think.

Reason I believe this is that the face now shows duplicated/missing time marks at a different point on the dial - at the moment my watch face is showing 2 - 4 - 4 - 6 - 6, in other words skipping 3 o'clock, repeating 4 o'clock, and so forth. That is clearly a result of how the face is programmed to evolve during the day.

Nice investigation work!

 

[Six0Four]

Ah, I think I have figured it out - and the suggestion that it is reflecting DST is correct, I think.

Reason I believe this is that the face now shows duplicated/missing time marks at a different point on the dial - at the moment my watch face is showing 2 - 4 - 4 - 6 - 6, in other words skipping 3 o'clock, repeating 4 o'clock, and so forth. That is clearly a result of how the face is programmed to evolve during the day.

Very good point. Thanks a lot!