really good one

Do you have a wallpaper of England showing the Big Ben? or maybe you have the complete image when you're taking the photo to be used by this widget? It would be lovely to have a "live" desktop wallpaper.

I believe I programmed them to be precisely the same as Big Ben itself. I had the help of an Englishman, and remembered asking questions and setting things to be as close to the original as possible. To the best of my knowledge, the sounds were actual recordings of Big Ben, and the timing comes from a first hand witness that said the 4 quarter chimes start 24 seconds before the hour, and the hourly tolls start on the hour. If this information is incorrect, please let me know the correct timing and I will fix it.

But the hour chimes need to happen much closer to the 4 quarter chimes that precede them. Other than that, perfect!

Gary,

thank you for writing this. I love it. I currently have a wallpaper of the Palace of Westminster with your clock seamlessly sat on the clock tower. Brilliant!
One small suggestion. It doesn't seem to do an auto-update if my machine has been hibernating and so a call to onWakeFromSleep would be good. Here's the bit in one of my widgets:


updateEverything();

Any how - a great little clock. Thank you.

Paul