12Ghosts ShowTime 9.52

12Ghosts ShowTime 9.52 is a software that displays the time and date either in the tray or in a free movable window, which can be set to stay in the title bar of the active window. It displays the phase of moon and age of moon. A configurable tray icon can display a part of the date or time.

Enhance your taskbar clock to show the date and a second time zone. You may display seconds smaller and the date in a different color, for example. Everything is configurable, the display of the date and time, font, size, colors, alignment, and shadow effect.

Examples:

• Enhance your tray clock with date, seconds, and font styles
• Display the moon phase in a small, round window
• Moon with age and percentage
• Add colors and a second time zone

It wouldn't be a real clock if it didn't have an alarm that can be set daily or at a certain date. You may choose as alarm melody any .wav or .mid file. The comfortable snooze function reminds you repeatedly until it is answered. With a configurable list of 12 world times in a separate, movable window, chimes every quarter, hour signal, chronograph, and quickly accessible countdown the program is powerful and a pleasure to use.

Resource Efficiency

• It is put quite some effort into having this varied clock be sparing with system resources. The result is an astonishing low memory usage and virtually no recognizable processor time.
• First, it is run a loop in any way, shape or form to wait for the next second to happen. Instead, 12-ShowTime activates a system timer that only fires once exactly to the full second. Otherwise, 12-ShowTime does not run as an active task!
• 12-ShowTime saves system resources because it does only what is absolutely required. For example, it might be necessary to update the time window or tray icon every second - but only if seconds are displayed. If you have only minutes displayed 12-ShowTime does not redraw the main window until the next full minute. The tray icon is repainted only once a day if you display only the day. 12-ShowTime routinely checks if any changes are necessary and - if not - returns without wasting time.
• All drawing procedures have been optimized for flexibility and for saving resources. 12-ShowTime does not include 31 icons for each day and day of week, but instead creates the icons dynamically, providing for a smaller executable and full user control.
• It is made sure that all changes are only calculated, of course, if visible or selected: the tray icon, moon and moon text, world times, options title bar, alarm, and countdown. Even if you had all options selected and visible, 12-ShowTime needs almost no CPU time.

Major Features:

1. Synchronize your computer clock over the Internet with one or more atomic clocks. This can be done automatically and completely unnoticed. (A log file is created so you may verify that it did what it should and by how much your clock was adjusted.)
2. Choose out of a large list of reliable time servers on the Internet or add as many servers near your location. Adjustment can be done automatically between once every second to once a month. The program waits for an Internet connection before doing anything, then adjusts your clock to radio precision, without necessary interaction.
3. Support SNTP version 4 time protocol for a precision of up to one millisecond. The synchronization over HTTP port 80 and a proxy server is possible. Can be started from the command line to set the time only once.

Requirements:

• Windows XP,
• Pentium 4,
• 256 MB RAM

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