Advancing the Minutes
20 minutes
30+2 minutes
45+4 minutes
0+3 minutes
When setting the minutes, each minute advance also
resets
the seconds to zero. So, if you wait until 00 seconds
to advance to the final Minute, the hourly chime will be
more precise.
Tip:
You can speed up minute setting knowing a trick — if
you hold in both the Minute & Mode switches together, the
minutes will — go backwards.
Let’s go back to reading the time…
READING THE MINUTES IN TIMEART MODE
When you first turned on the clock it started in the
TimeArt,
Mode 1.
In this mode the yellow
position
is the fives-of-
minutes, just like when you are setting the time. The 0-4
green minutes randomly move around every 10 seconds.
It’s fun, it’s kinetic art, right? See examples.
Note: This Mode has a blue background.
2:44
10:17
Notice also, the time ‘builds’ the display
. Every 10
seconds first the red hour lights, then one second later the
yellow fives-of-minutes lights, and finally the green, 0-4
minutes are filled all together. So it displays the time the
way we read it — hours then minutes.
And adding to the fun is what happens at times like 2:10,
or 3:15 or 4:20? The red and yellow are both trying to use
the same area. Well, just what you’d guess. The Red &
Yellow get pushy, both trying to occupy the same place.
READING MINUTES IN THE
⛓
LINKED MODE
After the
red
hour is displayed, 0-5
blue
segments light,
each are worth 10 minutes.
Then an
aqua
colored segment may light as 5 minutes.
Then 0-4
green
minutes may load.
Then the background color, either yellow or magenta fills
the display, depending on the Mode you have selected.
The minutes are loaded sequentially, counter-clockwise
from the hour, connected like the
links in a chain
.
6:23 Yellow
background,
Mode 4
10:57 Magenta
background,
Mode 5
Note: The colors are not printed accurately above.
