Sun Clock

SunClock is a nifty little application that shows what part of the world the sun is shining on. The shape of the shadow changes with the season. It is a port of the UNIX program sunclock. The first time I saw sunclock was on a Sun 3 running SunView back around 1989, and I thought it was a pretty neat program. Since the Mac is so insanely cool, I figured it was just a matter of time before someone came out with the same program for it. So, I waited... ... and waited... ... and waited. Well, a couple of programs that sort of did the same thing did come out, but they sucked. One was a HyperCard stack, so it doesn't really count as a program. The other was OK, but it did all this other stuff that I didn't want, plus I used it once to change my timezone and it screwed up my PRAM. I couldn't get my Date & Time control panel to set correctly until I zapped my PRAM. The author wanted something like $25 to get rid of the shareware dialog so I could fry my PRAM more efficiently. No thanks. So, 8 years later, I finally got off my butt and ported the UNIX source (it has always been public-domain) to the Mac, and prettied it up a bit.