A collection of clocks that are all right.

What’s in it

32 clocks in four sections:

• Absurd 8
  The time, told with whatever was on the bench.
• Surreal 8
  Right, for reasons that shouldn’t work.
• Funny 8
  The time, with a straight face.
• Bad UI 8
  Correct, eventually. You have to help.

Each one has its own page with how to read it, and a fold that just tells you the time in digits when you have had enough.

The rules they keep

• Every clock is right. Each is checked at midnight, 3:07, noon and a minute to midnight, and has to read the right time to its own stated precision: to the second, the minute, or ten minutes for the sundial.
• Readable, eventually. Some need you to wind them, scratch them or wait for the hands to stop fighting. None of them needs you to guess.
• Screen readers get the time straight. Every clock carries the time in plain text for assistive technology.
• Reduced motion is respected. If your device asks for less motion, the clocks change once a second and nothing else moves on its own.
• Your clock, nobody else’s. The time comes from your own device. Nothing is fetched, stored or sent.
• Quiet by default. The clocks that can make a sound only do it after you press something, and only once you have turned sound on.

Made by machine

Everything here was designed, written and built with AI. A few clocks borrow from the rest of the slopped.site world: sardines from the sardine-tin sea, a hurricane in a pocket watch like the Slopwright makes, the Assistant from Backrooms, the Understudy from the walnut theatre, and the first dozen pieces of Fresh slop. Its neighbour is Bad UI, which has controls that work, eventually.