Release Notes
- In the Meeting Planner you can now choose the format of the date displayed in the table's first column. Click the Action pop-up menu at the bottom of the table, then choose a format (short, medium, long) from the Date Format submenu.
- Daylight-saving time information for Morocco, Palestine, Paraguay, and Western Sahara has been updated. Next year, Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western Europe Time (UTC) during Ramadan, presumably from February 23 to April 6, 2025. Next year, DST in Palestine will start on April 12, 2025, after the end of Ramadan. Paraguay abolished the switch to standard time and will observe daylight-saving time all year round.
- World Clock Deluxe is now ready for macOS 15 Sequoia.
- A bug that caused World Clock Deluxe to quit unexpectedly when you tried to rearrange table columns in the Time Converter pane or in the Add/Edit Clock dialog has been fixed.
- A bug that caused, on macOS 11 or later, the width of clocks in the menu bar, when variable, to be often incorrect has been fixed.
- The incompatibilities with macOS 14 Sonoma have been solved.
- The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of Nuuk and Qaanaaq have been updated after Western Greenland changed time zone. At 11:00 PM on October 28, 2023, Western Greenland Time (WGT) and Western Greenland Summer Time (WGST) moved from UTC-3 to UTC-2 and from UTC-2 to UTC-1, respectively.
- Daylight-saving time for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. Next year, Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western Europe Time (UTC) during Ramadan, presumably from March 10 to April 14, 2024.
- Some other minor fixes and improvements have been introduced.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.19.1.1
March 1, 2024
- The offset from UTC of the Eastern part of Kazakhstan has been updated. At 12:00 AM on March 1, 2024 Eastern Kazakhstan moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5, so that now the whole country uses the same time zone.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Vostok and Mirny has been updated. Vostok recently moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5, while Mirny uses UTC+7 (and not UTC+6).
- The time zones observed by Nuuk, Qaanaaq, and most of Greenland (UTC-2 during winter and UTC-1 during summer) have been renamed to Central Greenland Time (CGT) and Central Greenland Summer Time (CGST), respectively.
- Daylight-saving time for Palestine has been updated. Palestine postponed the start of DST from April 13 to April 20, 2024.
- Turkey officially changed its English name to Türkiye.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.19.1.2
March 31, 2024
- The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland have been updated. The Ittoqqortoormiit area moved from Eastern Greenland Time (UTC-1) to Central Greenland Summer Time (UTC-1) at 12:00 AM on March 31, 2024, thus joining the rest of the country.
- The incompatibilities with macOS 13 Ventura have been solved.
- The Meeting Planner can now display up to 72 hours starting from the specified date. By default, the Meeting Planner shows 24 hours, but you can choose a longer time range (36, 48, or 72 hours) from the Span submenu of the Action pop-up menu at the bottom of the table.
- The Meeting Planner can now show date separators, horizontal lines marking the last time slot of each day. By default, date separators are visible. To hide them, deselect the Date Separators item in the Show submenu of the Action pop-up menu at the bottom of the table.
- Clock times can now be copied to the Clipboard. To copy a time, display the Clocks palette pop-up menu or the World Clock Deluxe status menu, select a clock, and choose the time from its Copy Time submenu. The Copy Time format can be changed by pressing modifier keys while showing the submenu: you can use 12-hour or 24-hour time and add seconds, date, time zone, and city.
- A bug, that caused clocks not to be immediately updated when the “Light text on dark background” option was toggled from the Clocks palette, has been fixed.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Iran, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria has been updated. Fiji will not switch to daylight-saving time this November. From 2023, Iran will no longer observe DST. Daylight-saving time in Palestine will end one day later this year, at 2:00 AM on Saturday, October 29, 2022. Jordan and Syria abolished the switch to standard time and will observe daylight-saving time all year round.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.19.0.1
October 30, 2022
- Daylight-saving time information for Mexico has been updated. From 2023, Mexico will no longer observe daylight-saving time, except for Mexico–United States border cities in the states of Baja California, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas which will continue following the United States DST rule.
- The time zone of the Mexican state of Chihuahua has been updated. Chihuahua moved from Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6) to Central Standard Time (UTC-6) at 2:00 AM on October 30, 2022.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.19.0.2
November 30, 2022
- The offset from UTC of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua has been updated after Mexico amended its new time zones law. Ciudad Juárez moved from Central Standard Time (UTC-6) to Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7) at 12:00 AM on November 30, 2022.
- Daylight-saving time information for Mexico, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. After Mexico amended its new time zones law, the Mexico–United States border cities in the state of Chihuahua will observe daylight-saving time following the United States rule. Next year, Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western Europe Time (UTC) during Ramadan, presumably from March 19 to April 30, 2023.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.19.0.3
March 23, 2023
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, both stations moved from UTC+11 to UTC+8.
- Daylight-saving time information for Egypt, Morocco, Palestine, and Western Sahara has been updated. The Egyptian government announced the reintroduction of daylight-saving time, which will start at 12:00 AM on the last Friday in April and end at midnight on the last Thursday in October. Morocco and Western Sahara will switch back to Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) on April 23, 2023, one week earlier than presumed. Palestine postponed the start of daylight-saving time from March 25 to April 29, 2023, after the end of Ramadan.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.19.0.4
March 24, 2023
- Daylight-saving time information for Lebanon has been updated. Due to Ramadan, the Lebanese government decided to postpone the start of daylight-saving time from March 26 to April 21, 2023.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.19.0.5
March 29, 2023
- Daylight-saving time information for Lebanon has been updated. After the postponement of daylight-saving time was strongly criticized and many institutions refused to comply with it, the Lebanese government reversed its decision and stated that DST will start at 12:00 AM on March 30, 2023.
- The “Automatically set current date” option has been added to the Meeting Planner. If selected, the Meeting Planner will automatically show the current date when you open it for the first time after having launched World Clock Deluxe. To select the option, click the Options button in the Meeting Planner.
- Button icons in the Time Converter and Meeting Planner panes and the World Clock Deluxe icon in the menu bar have been revised on macOS 10.15 or earlier and now match the icons used on macOS 11 and 12.
- An incompatibility of the show/hide palette keyboard shortcut with the Romaji input mode has been solved.
- A bug, introduced in version 4.16, that could cause colors in the UTC column of the Meeting Planner to be incorrect on macOS 10.13 or earlier has been fixed.
- A bug, introduced in version 4.17, causing the Save Reports and Delete Reports buttons to be initially disabled in the Weather Reports window on macOS 10.15 or earlier until new weather reports are downloaded has been fixed.
- Some other minor fixes and improvements have been introduced.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.18.1.1
March 24, 2022
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, both stations moved from UTC+11 to UTC+8.
- Daylight-saving time information for Palestine has been updated. Daylight-saving time in Palestine will start at 12:00 AM on Sunday, March 27, 2022.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.18.1.2
August 26, 2022
- Daylight-saving time information for Chile has been updated. This year, DST in Chile will start one week later, at midnight on Saturday, September 10, 2022. The delay is due to the fact that Chileans will vote on September 4, 2022 on whether to approve or reject a proposal for a new constitution.
- World Clock Deluxe is now ready for macOS 12 Monterey.
- The display and editing of the show/hide palette keyboard shortcut now work correctly with non-Latin input sources: when a non-Latin input source is selected, the key combination displayed in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe preferences now uses the last used Latin input source and when the show/hide palette keyboard shortcut is edited, World Clock Deluxe automatically switches to the last used Latin input source.
- The anchor palette and lock anchor key combinations are now always Command-A and Command-L respectively, no matter whether a Latin or non-Latin input source is selected.
- On macOS 11 or later, the color of the selected World Clock Deluxe status menu icon or clock has been corrected and is now black in case of light menu bar.
- The World Clock Deluxe Help has been revised and is now better searchable.
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, and Western Sahara has been updated. Fiji will not switch to daylight-saving time this November. From 2022, DST in Jordan will start one month early, at midnight on the last Thursday in February. Daylight-saving time in Palestine will end at 1:00 AM on Friday, October 29, 2021. Next year, Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western Europe Time (UTC) during Ramadan, presumably from March 27 to May 8, 2022.
- Some other minor improvements have been introduced.
- World Clock Deluxe is now Universal and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel-based Macs.
- The default palette font size has been increased.
- On macOS 11, a bug that caused the old status menu icon to be displayed when clocks stopped to rotate in the menu bar has been fixed.
- A bug, introduced in version 4.17, that caused the N/S button in the English Add/Edit City dialog not to toggle has been fixed.
- A bug, introduced in version 4.17, that could cause the hidden Dock to appear when World Clock Deluxe was opened on macOS 11 and World Clock Deluxe not to be activated at launch on macOS 10.14 or earlier, has been fixed.
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.17.1.1
December 27, 2020
- The offset from UTC of Volgograd, Russia has been updated. The Volgograd Oblast moved from UTC+4 to UTC+3 at 2:00 AM on December 27, 2020.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.17.1.2
February 1, 2021
- The offset from UTC of South Sudan has been updated. South Sudan moved from East Africa Time (UTC+3) to Central Africa Time (UTC+2) on February 1, 2021.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.17.1.3
September 23, 2021
- Daylight-saving time information for Samoa has been updated. Samoa canceled daylight-saving time.
- World Clock Deluxe has adopted the new look of macOS. On Big Sur, windows and toolbars have been revised, lists have been made more spacious, and symbol images have been introduced.
- The Clocks palette has a new translucent background and new controls and supports Dark Mode.
- An incompatibility with Catalina that caused the World Clock Deluxe menu bar not to respond to mouse clicks at startup until the application was deactivated and reactivated has been solved.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Iran, Morocco, Palestine, and Western Sahara has been updated. Fiji will observe DST from December 20, 2020 to January 17, 2021. Daylight-saving time in Palestine ended one week earlier this year, at 1:00 AM on Saturday, October 24, 2020. Iran will observe DST from March 22 to September 22 in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Next year Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western Europe Time (UTC) during Ramadan, presumably from April 11 to May 16, 2021.
- Some other minor improvements have been introduced.
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.15 Catalina have been solved.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji and Norfolk Island has been updated. Fiji will observe daylight-saving time from November 10, 2019 to January 12, 2020. Norfolk Island introduced daylight-saving time following the Australian rule.
- Some minor bugs have been fixed.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.16.2.1
April 16, 2020
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, both stations moved from UTC+11 to UTC+8.
- Daylight-saving time information for the Canadian territory of Yukon and for Iran, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. Yukon abolished the switch to standard time and will observe daylight-saving time all year round. This year, Iran will observe DST from March 21 to September 21. Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western Europe Time (UTC) during Ramadan, from April 19 to May 31, 2020.
- An incompatibility with macOS 10.13.6 or later that could cause World Clock Deluxe to crash at launch if the Dock icon was hidden has been solved.
- Some other minor incompatibilities and bugs have been fixed.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.16.1.1
March 26, 2019
- Daylight-saving time information for Palestine has been updated. DST in Palestine will start one week later this year, at 1:00 AM on Saturday, March 30, 2019.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, both stations moved from UTC+11 to UTC+8.
- Byron Bay, NSW, Australia has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
- Three countries changed their name: Czech Republic became Czechia, Macedonia became North Macedonia, and Swaziland became Eswatini.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.16.1.2
May 1, 2019
- Daylight-saving time information for Brazil, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. Brazil canceled daylight-saving time, while Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western Europe Time (UTC) during Ramadan, from May 5 to June 9, 2019.
- On macOS 10.14 Mojave, support for Dark Mode has been introduced.
- Support for Retina displays has been introduced.
- Some other minor interface improvements and revisions have been introduced.
- On macOS 10.12 or later, a bug that caused World Clock Deluxe to stop responding when its status menu was dragged out of the menu bar, then was added again, and all clocks were hidden has been fixed.
- The offset from UTC of Volgograd, Russia has been updated. The Volgograd Oblast moved from UTC+3 to UTC+4 at 2:00 AM on October 28, 2018.
- The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of Morocco and Western Sahara have been updated. Both countries canceled DST and moved from Western Europe Time (UTC) to Central Europe Time (UTC+1) at 3:00 AM on October 28, 2018.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
- Daylight-saving time information for Chile and Fiji has been updated. From 2019, Chile (excluding the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica that have DST all year round) will observe daylight-saving time from midnight on the first Saturday in September to midnight on the first Saturday in April. Next year, Fiji will end daylight-saving time on January 13, 2019.
- Minimum required system version is now macOS 10.11.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.16.0.1
January 1, 2019
- The offset from UTC of São Tomé and Príncipe has been updated. São Tomé and Príncipe moved back from West Africa Time (UTC+1) to GMT at 2:00 AM on January 1, 2019.
- The offset from UTC of Baikonur, Kazakhstan has been updated and Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. The Qyzylorda Region and Baikonur moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 at midnight on December 21, 2018.
- World Clock Deluxe is now ready for macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
- The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of Namibia have been updated. Namibia canceled DST and at 2:00 AM on September 3, 2017, when daylight-saving time would have started, moved from West Africa Time (UTC+1) to Central Africa Time (UTC+2).
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji has been updated. Fiji will end daylight-saving time on January 14, 2018.
- The “Look Up Weather Station Indicator” command has been restored. Weather station indicators can now be looked up on the Aviation Codes Central website.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.4.1
November 1, 2017
- The offset from UTC of Sudan has been updated. Sudan moved from East Africa Time (UTC+3) to Central Africa Time (UTC+2) on November 1, 2017.
- Daylight-saving time information for Macquarie Island in Tasmania, Northern Cyprus, and Tonga has been updated. Macquarie Island uses Australian Eastern Time and observes DST following the Australian rule. Northern Cyprus restored winter and summer time, canceling daylight-saving time all year round. Tonga is supposed not to repeat last year’s daylight-saving time trial.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.4.2
January 10, 2018
- The offset from UTC of São Tomé and Príncipe has been updated. São Tomé and Príncipe moved from GMT to West Africa Time (UTC+1) on January 1, 2018.
- Daylight-saving time information for Brazil, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. From this year, DST in Brazil will start two weeks later, on the first Sunday in November. Morocco and Western Sahara will suspend daylight-saving time during Ramadan, presumably from May 13 to June 17, 2018.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.4.3
March 22, 2018
- The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of the Turks and Caicos Islands have been updated. The Turks and Caicos Islands reintroduced DST following the United States rule and moved from Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4) to Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) at 2:00 AM on March 11, 2018.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, both stations moved from UTC+11 to UTC+8.
- Daylight-saving time information for Palestine has been updated. DST in Palestine will start one week earlier this year, at 1:00 AM on Saturday, March 24, 2018.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.4.4
May 5, 2018
- The offset from UTC of North Korea has been updated. On May 5, North Korea moved back to Korean Standard Time (UTC+9), so that now South and North Korea observe again the same time.
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.12 Sierra have been solved.
- The possibility to retrieve weather reports has been reintroduced after NOAA terminated the weather.noaa.gov web service.
- On macOS 10.10 or later, a bug that could cause long cities/time zones/texts to be unnecessarily truncated in the Dock has been fixed.
- Daylight-saving time information for Turkey has been updated. Turkey abolished the switch to standard time and will observe DST all year round.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.3.1
October 21, 2016
- Daylight-saving time information for Palestine has been updated. DST in Palestine will end one week later, at 1:00 AM on Saturday, October 29, 2016.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.3.2
November 4, 2016
- The city of Famagusta in the Turkish-controlled part of Cyprus has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. Northern Cyprus followed Turkey and now observes daylight-saving time all year round, while the rest of Cyprus switched back to standard time on the last Sunday in October.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
- Daylight-saving time information for Tonga has been updated. Tonga reintroduces DST this year, starting on the first Sunday in November and ending on the third Sunday in January.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.3.3
December 4, 2016
- The offset from UTC of Saratov, Russia has been updated. The Saratov Oblast moved from UTC+3 to UTC+4 at 2:00 AM on December 4, 2016.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.3.4
March 14, 2017
- Daylight-saving time information for Haiti, Iran, Mongolia, Morocco, Western Sahara, the US Antarctic station Palmer, and the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica in Chile has been updated. Haiti reintroduced daylight-saving time on March 12, 2017. Iran will observe DST from March 22 to September 22 in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Mongolia canceled daylight-saving time this year. Morocco and Western Sahara will suspend DST during Ramadan, presumably from May 21 to July 2, 2017. Palmer Station and the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica abolished the switch to standard time and will observe daylight-saving time all year round.
- For improved security, World Clock Deluxe now uses encrypted HTTPS connections when checking for updates and automatically downloading and installing updates of cities, time zones, and DST rules.
- Daylight-saving time information for the Cayman Islands, Iran, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. The Cayman Islands will not introduce daylight-saving time in 2016. Iran will observe DST from March 21 to September 21 this year. Morocco and Western Sahara will suspend daylight-saving time during Ramadan, presumably from June 4 to July 9, 2016.
- Two time zones have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New time zones are Choibalsan Time (CHOT) and Choibalsan Summer Time (CHOST).
- Time zone abbreviations have been revised and a few changes have been introduced.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.2.1
March 15, 2016
- Daylight-saving time information for Haiti and Chile has been updated. The Haiti Presidency announced that Haiti will not observe daylight-saving time this year, while the Chilean Ministry of Energy announced that Chile, after spending all of 2015 on DST, will switch to standard time for three months in 2016, from midnight on the second Saturday in May to midnight on the second Saturday in August.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.2.2
March 27, 2016
The offset from UTC of 7 Russian cities has been updated after the Astrakhan, Ulyanovsk, Altai, Zabaykalsky, and Sakhalin regions moved to a different time zone on March 27, 2016. Edited cities are:
Astrakhan Oblast Astrakhan from UTC+3 to UTC+4 Ulyanovsk Oblast Ulyanovsk from UTC+3 to UTC+4 Altai Krai and Altai Republic Barnaul from UTC+6 to UTC+7 Zabaykalsky Krai Chita from UTC+8 to UTC+9 Sakhalin Oblast Kurilsk from UTC+10 to UTC+11 Sakhalin Oblast Yuzhno-Kurilsk from UTC+10 to UTC+11 Sakhalin Oblast Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk from UTC+10 to UTC+11 - Daylight-saving time information for Azerbaijan, Morocco, Palestine, and Western Sahara has been updated. Azerbaijan canceled daylight-saving time this year. Preliminary dates for the suspension of DST in Morocco and Western Sahara during Ramadan are now June 5 (start of suspension) and July 10, 2016 (end of suspension). Daylight-saving time in Palestine started at 1:00 AM (and not at 12:00 AM) on March 26, 2016.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.2.3
April 24, 2016
- The offset from UTC of Magadan, Russia has been updated. The Magadan Oblast moved from UTC+10 to UTC+11 at 2:00 AM on April 24, 2016.
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, both stations moved from UTC+11 to UTC+8.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.2.4
May 1, 2016
- The offset from UTC of Venezuela has been updated. In an attempt to prevent a possible power crisis due to a prolonged drought, Venezuela moved from UTC-4:30 to UTC-4:00 at 2:30 AM on May 1, 2016.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.2.5
May 29, 2016
- The offset from UTC of Tomsk, Russia has been updated. The Tomsk Oblast moved from UTC+6 to UTC+7 at 2:00 AM on May 29, 2016.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.2.6
July 24, 2016
- The offset from UTC of Novosibirsk, Russia has been updated. The Novosibirsk Oblast moved from UTC+6 to UTC+7 at 2:00 AM on July 24, 2016.
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.11 El Capitan have been solved.
- On El Capitan, conversion results and meeting details can now be saved to a note or added to a reminder by clicking the Share button.
- Conversion results and meeting details can now be copied to the Clipboard by choosing Copy Conversion/Copy Meeting Details from the Edit menu or using the Command-C keyboard shortcut.
- The system font is now the default font of the Clocks palette on all system versions, including macOS 10.9 or later.
- The font of the Clocks palette and the Font pop-up menu in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences are now updated when fonts are disabled or enabled using Font Book.
- A bug, introduced in version 4.15, that affected the “Slide horizontally” and “Slide vertically” transition effects of the Clocks palette has been fixed.
- Several other minor improvements have been introduced.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.1.1
October 3, 2015
- The offset from UTC of Norfolk Island has been updated. Norfolk Island moved from UTC+11:30 to UTC+11 at 2:00 AM on October 4, 2015.
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji and Turkey has been updated. Fiji will end daylight-saving time on January 17, 2016, while Turkey will end daylight-saving time on November 8, 2015, two weeks later than usual, due to general election on November 1.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.1.2
November 16, 2015
- The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
- Daylight-saving time information for the Cayman Islands has been updated. Next year, the Cayman Islands will observe daylight-saving time for the first time, most probably following the United States rule.
- World Clock Deluxe is now 64-bit compatible.
- The World Clock Deluxe status menu has been fully revised and has now a fixed width when clocks rotate. If you prefer that the width of the status menu varies when clocks rotate, deselect the “Fixed width clocks” checkbox in the Menu Bar pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
- A bug that caused changes to the style and format of clocks in the menu bar to be ignored if they were made when all clocks were hidden in the menu bar has been fixed.
- The incompatibility of the Anchor Palette and Lock Anchor key combinations with Unicode keyboards has been solved.
- Some other minor bugs and incompatibilities have been fixed.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.0.1
March 8, 2015
- The Antarctic stations Concordia and Mario Zucchelli have been added to the World Clock Deluxe cities database.
- The Argentine Antarctic station Jubany has been renamed. The station is now named after scientist Alejandro Ricardo Carlini.
- The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of the Turks and Caicos Islands have been updated. The Turks and Caicos Islands canceled DST and moved from Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) to Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4) at 2:00 AM on March 8, 2015.
- Daylight-saving time information for Palestine has been updated. The Palestinian authorities announced that DST will start one day later, on March 28, 2015.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.0.2
March 24, 2015
- Daylight-saving time information for Mongolia has been updated. Mongolia reintroduces daylight-saving time this year: it will start at 2:00 AM on the last Saturday in March and end at midnight on the last Saturday in September.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.0.3
April 21, 2015
- Daylight-saving time information for Egypt has been updated. The Egyptian government announced that Egypt will not observe daylight-saving time in 2015.
- The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of Qaanaaq, Greenland has been corrected. Qaanaaq uses Western Greenland Time (UTC-3) and observes daylight-saving time according to the European Union rule.
- Thule Air Base, Greenland has been added to the World Clock Deluxe cities database. The base uses Atlantic Time (UTC-4) and observes daylight-saving time according to the United States rule.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.0.4
June 11, 2015
- Daylight-saving time information for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. The Moroccan government announced the dates of the suspension of daylight-saving time during Ramadan: both countries will return to standard time at 3:00 AM on June 14, 2015 and resume daylight-saving time at 2:00 AM on July 19, 2015.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.15.0.5
August 15, 2015
- The offset from UTC of North Korea has been updated. On August 15, the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese rule at the end of World War II, North Korea moved from UTC+9 to UTC+8:30, thus creating a new time zone (Pyongyang Time).
- Daylight-saving time information for Uruguay has been updated. Uruguay abolished daylight-saving time this year.
- Daylight-saving time start and end hours for Moldova have been corrected. Moldova switches to daylight-saving time and back to standard time at midnight UTC, one hour before the European Union.
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.10 Yosemite have been solved.
- The Meeting Planner lets you now select multiple time slots and include local start and end times and the duration of the meeting when copying, dragging, or sharing details.
- The Meeting Planner lets you now copy, drag, or share past time slots.
- Some minor incompatibilities of the date control with macOS 10.9 or later have been fixed.
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed and some minor improvements have been introduced.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.12.1.1
October 26, 2014
- Daylight-saving time information for Russia, Crimea, Belarus, and Fiji has been updated. Russia and Crimea returned to permanent winter time at 2:00 AM on October 26, 2014 and Belarus switched from Eastern Europe Summer Time (EEST) all year round to Moscow Time (MSK). Fiji will observe daylight-saving time from November 2, 2014 to January 18, 2015.
The offset from UTC of 10 Russian cities has been updated after the Samara, Udmurtia, Kemerovo, Zabaykalsky, Magadan, Chukotka, and Kamchatka regions moved to a different time zone and Russia brought its time zones back to 11 on October 26, 2014. Edited cities are:
Samara Oblast Samara from UTC+3 to UTC+4 Samara Oblast Tolyatti from UTC+3 to UTC+4 Udmurt Republic Izhevsk from UTC+3 to UTC+4 Kemerovo Oblast Kemerovo from UTC+6 to UTC+7 Kemerovo Oblast Novokuznetsk from UTC+6 to UTC+7 Zabaykalsky Krai Chita from UTC+9 to UTC+8 Magadan Oblast Magadan from UTC+11 to UTC+10 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Anadyr from UTC+11 to UTC+12 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Provideniya from UTC+11 to UTC+12 Kamchatka Krai Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski from UTC+11 to UTC+12 - The city of Srednekolymsk in the Sakha Republic in Russia and Srednekolymsk Time (SRET) have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. SRET (UTC+11) was introduced on October 26, 2014 and is used in part of the Sakha Republic and in the North Kuril Islands.
- The city of Luhansk in Ukraine has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database and the offset from UTC of Donetsk, Ukraine has been updated. The Luhansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic, two self-proclaimed states in Eastern Ukraine, have moved to Moscow Time (MSK) on October 26, 2014.
- The city of Buka in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, geographically part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, will move to UTC+11 at 2:00 AM on December 28, 2014.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.12.1.2
December 28, 2014
- The city of Arawa in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. The Autonomous Region of Bougainville moved from UTC+10 to UTC+11 at 2:00 AM on December 28, 2014.
- Two time zones have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New time zones are Bougainville Standard Time (BST) and Macquarie Island Standard Time (MIST).
- Daylight-saving time information for Brazil, Egypt, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. Due to Carnival, daylight-saving time in Brazil will end one week later in 2015, on the fourth Sunday in February. Daylight-saving time in Egypt, that was reintroduced in May 2014, will start on the last Friday in April and end at midnight on the last Thursday in September next year. Egypt, Morocco, and Western Sahara will suspend DST during Ramadan, which in 2015 will start on June 18 and end on July 17.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.12.1.3
January 13, 2015
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji has been updated. This year, daylight-saving time in Fiji will end at 3:00 AM on January 18, 2015.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.12.1.4
February 1, 2015
- Mexico has now a fourth time zone (Sureste) after the state of Quintana Roo moved from Central Standard Time (UTC-6) to Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) at 2:00 AM on February 1, 2015. Quintana Roo is not supposed to observe daylight-saving time in future.
- The Mexican cities of Chetumal and Playa del Carmen in the state of Quintana Roo have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
- Daylight-saving time information for Chile has been updated. The Chilean government announced that Chile will not switch back to standard time on April 26, 2015 and will observe daylight-saving time all year round.
- Software update has been extensively revised, displays release notes, and lets you automatically download and install updates of cities, time zones, and DST rules.
- Several enhancements have been added to the report displayed by World Clock Deluxe after updating cities, time zones, and DST rules. The report now tags used cities and time zones and lets you list them first and sort cities by country.
- Buttons in the Time Converter and Meeting Planner panes have been revised. In addition to that, on macOS 10.8 or later, you can now easily share conversions and meeting details via Mail and Messages.
- The Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences lets you now specify any palette font size between 8 and 99.
- An incompatibility with Mavericks that caused the default palette font (Lucida Grande) not to appear in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences has been solved.
- Sevastopol, Crimea has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database and the offset from UTC of Simferopol has been updated after Crimea adopted Moscow Summer Time (UTC+4) on March 30, 2014.
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Jordan, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. Fiji advanced the end of daylight-saving time to the first Sunday from January 19. Jordan, after having observed DST all year round in 2013, readopted its previous rule (midnight on the last Thursday in March to 1:00 AM on the last Friday in October). This year, Morocco and Western Sahara will suspend daylight-saving time from June 29 to July 29 for Ramadan.
- Some other minor interface revisions have been introduced.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.12.0.1
May 14, 2014
- Daylight-saving time information for Egypt has been updated. Egypt reintroduces DST after having canceled it in 2011. Daylight-saving time will start at midnight on May 15 and end on September 26 and will be suspended during Ramadan.
- The West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been replaced by the state of Palestine.
Cities, Time Zones, DST Rules 4.12.0.2
June 13, 2014
- Daylight-saving time information for Egypt, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. The Egyptian and Moroccan governments announced the exact dates of the suspension of daylight-saving time during Ramadan. Egypt will suspend DST from midnight on June 26, 2014 to midnight on July 31, 2014. Morocco and Western Sahara will return to standard time at 3:00 AM on June 28, 2014 and resume daylight-saving time at 2:00 AM on August 2, 2014.
36 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
Botswana Maun, Molepolole Dem. Republic of the Congo Bukavu, Goma, Matadi, Mbandaka Egypt Dahab Kenya Narok Mali Djenné Morocco Agadir, Essaouira Mozambique Bazaruto Archipelago Namibia Swakopmund Nigeria Enugu, Uyo, Zaria Rwanda Butare Somalia Bosaso Somaliland Berbera South Africa East London, Kimberley, Nelspruit, Phalaborwa, Polokwane, Prince Edward Islands, Thabazimbi, Upington, Vereeniging South Sudan Wau Tanzania Moshi US Minor Outlying Islands Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll - The “Hide World Clock Deluxe icon in the Dock” preference is saved now and new World Clock Deluxe versions will automatically hide the icon in the Dock when they are launched for the first time after having been installed.
- On macOS 10.9, the icon in the Dock is now hidden or shown without restarting the World Clock Deluxe application.
- The offset from UTC of Rio Branco in the Brazilian state of Acre has been changed from UTC-4 to UTC-5 after Brazil reintroduced its forth time zone (Acre Time, UTC-5) on November 10, 2013.
- Daylight-saving time information for Libya has been updated. Libya didn’t switch back to standard time and will remain on daylight-saving time until further notice.
- The geographical coordinates of Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg, and Cape Town in South Africa and Sochi in Russia have been corrected.
- Some minor bugs have been fixed.
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.9 Mavericks have been solved.
- Daylight-saving time information for Syria has been updated. DST in Syria ends on the last Friday in October.
- Daylight-saving time information for Morocco, Western Sahara, and the Brazilian state of Tocantins has been updated. Morocco and Western Sahara decided to extend daylight-saving time to October 27 and from next year will observe DST from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. Tocantins canceled daylight-saving time after a one-year trial.
- World Clock Deluxe now has a Meeting Planner pane that allows you to easily find the best time for an online chat, a conference call or videoconference across different time zones. To display the new pane, choose View > Meeting Planner.
- The Meeting Planner is very easy to set up: after having picked a date from the calendar, you can quickly add two, three, or more cities, specify your home city, replace or remove cities, and add frequently used cities to your Favorites.
- The Meeting Planner is highly configurable: you can choose a color theme, specify the duration of time slots and when mornings, days, evenings, and nights start, and decide which information (Coordinated Universal Time, weekday, date change, UTC offset, time zone, daylight-saving time) should be displayed.
- The Meeting Planner lets you copy the details of your meeting to the Clipboard so that you can email them to all participants. The Options dialog lets you specify if you want to copy rich or plain text, choose a text layout and date format, and determine which information must be included in the copied text.
- World Clock Deluxe has a new black and white icon in the menu bar.
- A bug that caused the Time Converter to display DST end times using daylight time zones instead of standard time zones has been fixed.
- Daylight-saving time for Israel has been updated. Israel decided to further extend its daylight-saving time period: from this year, DST will end on the last Sunday in October.
- Minimum required system version is now macOS 10.6.
- Daylight-saving time information for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. This year, both countries will suspend daylight-saving time on July 7, two days before the beginning of Ramadan, and resume it on August 10, two days after the end of Ramadan.
- String representation of dates and times has been fully revised so that clocks support non-Gregorian calendars (10.6 or later) and formats using non-European scripts now.
- The date and time controls in the Time Converter have been fully revised and now support non-Gregorian calendars (10.6 or later), eras, and formats using non-European scripts.
- Custom date and time formats now support non-Gregorian calendars on 10.6 or later. In addition to that, the Before noon/After noon strings are no longer limited to 4 characters.
- Clocks can now show full weekdays and medium or long dates. Weekdays now appear in the language of the region specified in the Region (Formats) pane of Language & Text Preferences.
- While creating or editing clocks you can now see a clock preview.
- You can now configure your local date in the Clocks palette pop-up menu, in the Dock icon menu, and in the World Clock Deluxe menu in the menu bar so that it shows short weekdays and the medium or long date. In addition to that, the Menus pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences now displays a preview of your local date and time.
- Daylight-saving time transitions can now use medium, long, or full dates.
- With the new “Apply to All Menus” button in the Menus pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences you can now quickly apply the same settings to the Clocks palette pop-up menu, the Dock icon menu, and the World Clock Deluxe menu in the menu bar.
- Weather reports can now display medium, long, or full dates. In addition to that, the Weather pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences shows a preview of report dates and times.
- You can now choose whether to use right-to-left date and time formats. Deselect the “Use right-to-left date and time formats” checkbox in the Advanced pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences if you want World Clock Deluxe to use a left-to-right date and time format instead of the Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Pashto, or Urdu date and time format specified in System Preferences.
- Several minor bugs have been fixed.
- Daylight-saving time information for Cuba and Paraguay has been updated. This year, Cuba started DST on the second Sunday in March, while Paraguay will end daylight-saving time three weeks earlier, on March 24.
106 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,600 cities. New cities are:
- Daylight-saving information for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. Both countries will observe daylight-saving time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September with the exception of Ramadan (estimated start and end dates for Ramadan in 2013 are July 9 and August 7).
| France | Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, Bastia, Biarritz, Cannes, Chamonix, Nîmes, Perpignan |
| French Guiana | Kourou |
| Germany | Augsburg, Baden-Baden, Bayreuth, Darmstadt, Freiburg, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Jena, Karlsruhe, Koblenz, Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Münster, Regensburg, Trier, Weimar |
| Greece | Cephalonia, Corfu, Hydra, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos |
| Hungary | Debrecen, Eger, Győr, Kecskemét, Miskolc, Nyíregyháza, Pécs, Szeged, Székesfehérvár |
| Italy | Amalfi, Ancona, Capri, Catania, Cortina, Elba, Frascati, Ischia, Modena, Padua, Perugia, Pisa, Rimini, Sassari, Siena, Trento, Varese, Verona, Vicenza |
| Netherlands | Noordwijk |
| Poland | Białystok, Częstochowa, Gdynia, Kielce, Olsztyn, Tarnów, Toruń |
| Spain | Burgos, Ceuta, Granada, Marbella, Melilla, Pamplona, Salamanca, San Sebastián, Santander, Tarragona, Toledo, Valladolid, Villanueva de la Cañada |
| Switzerland | Davos, Interlaken, Montreux, St. Moritz, Zermatt |
| Turkey | Alanya, Antalya, Bodrum, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Kayseri, Marmaris, Mersin, Trabzon |
| United Kingdom | Blackpool, Bournemouth, Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Winchester |
- The Clocks, Cities & Time Zones, and Time Converter panes and their dialogs have been redesigned. Panes are now bigger, cleaner, easier to use, and resizable.
- On macOS 10.5 or later, the Time Converter lets you now specify dates by picking them from a calendar.
- The Time Converter now provides more information about conversions: you can view the offset from UTC and the time zone abbreviation of the selected locations and you can see whether cities use daylight-saving time or not and if daylight-saving time is in effect, not in effect, or applied all year round. If daylight-saving time is used, a tooltip shows you when it starts and ends.
- The Time Converter lets you now copy conversions to the Clipboard so that you can use them in other applications. The new Options dialog lets you specify if you want to copy rich or plain text, choose a text layout and date format, and determine which information must be included in the copied text.
- The Time Converter lets you now automatically set the current date and time when you open the pane for the first time after having launched World Clock Deluxe. To automatically set the current date and time, click the Options button and select the “Automatically set current date and time” checkbox.
- Icons in the toolbar of World Clock Deluxe Preferences have been revised and the Date & Time Formats pane has been redesigned.
- The offset from UTC of Libya has been updated. Libya moved from UTC+2 to UTC+1 and from next year will observe daylight-saving time, starting on the last Friday in March and ending on the last Friday in October.
- Daylight-saving time for Iran and Israel has been updated. In 2013, Iran will observe daylight-saving time from March 22 to September 22. From 2013, Israel will extend its daylight-saving time period: DST will start on Friday before the last Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday after October 1.
- The World Clock Deluxe Help has been fully rewritten.
- Daylight-saving time information for Jordan and the Brazilian states of Bahia and Tocantins has been updated. This year, Jordan didn’t switch back to standard time and will remain on daylight-saving time at least until October 2013. Tocantins reintroduced DST, while Bahia canceled it after a one-year trial.
World Clock Deluxe 4.8.2
October 8, 2012
- Clocks in the Clocks palette and in the Dock icon can now use light text on a dark background. To change your clocks’ background, select the “Light text on dark background” checkboxes in the Palette and Dock panes of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
- The Palette, Dock, Menu Bar, Menus and Weather panes of World Clock Deluxe Preferences have been fully revised. Minor changes have been introduced in the other panes.
- The offset from UTC of Tokelau has been corrected to UTC+13 after the Tokelau Apia Liaison Office noted that time in Tokelau was incorrectly displayed on all internet time and date websites. The mistake probably dated back to 1901 when Tokelau abandoned Local Mean Time.
- Daylight-saving time information for Samoa, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank has been updated. This year, DST in Samoa started on September 30, while the Gaza Strip and the West Bank both ended daylight-saving time on September 21.
World Clock Deluxe 4.8.1
July 20, 2012
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion have been solved.
- Daylight-saving time information for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. Both countries will resume daylight-saving time on August 20 after Ramadan.
- A bug that could cause World Clock Deluxe not to show a city in the local time zone when running for the first time has been fixed.
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed.
World Clock Deluxe 4.8
April 20, 2012
73 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,500 cities. New cities are:
Antigua and Barbuda Codrington Bahamas Freeport Belarus Brest, Homyel’, Hrodna, Mahilyow, Vitsyebsk Botswana Francistown Burkina Faso Bobo-Dioulasso Cape Verde Mindelo Caribbean Netherlands Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius China Nanchang Cocos (Keeling) Islands West Island Côte d’Ivoire Bouaké, Daloa Cuba Camagüey, Holguín Dominican Republic Concepción de la Vega, La Romana, Puerto Plata, Santiago de los Caballeros France Amiens, Caen, La Rochelle, Poitiers Gabon Port-Gentil Ghana Kumasi, Sekondi-Takoradi, Tamale Guadeloupe Pointe-à-Pitre Haiti Cap-Haïtien Iraq Karbala, Kirkuk, Najaf, Nasiriya, Sulaimaniya Ireland Waterford Jamaica Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Ríos, Port Antonio Malawi Mzuzu Mauritania Néma, Nouadhibou, Zouérat Palau Melekeok Puerto Rico Ponce Republic of the Congo Pointe-Noire Rwanda Ruhengeri Senegal Thiès, Touba, Ziguinchor Sierra Leone Bo, Kenema, Koidu Sint Maarten Philipsburg Swaziland Manzini Trinidad and Tobago San Fernando Tunisia Djerba, Kairouan, Monastir, Sfax, Sousse, Tataouine Uganda Gulu United Kingdom Newcastle upon Tyne Western Sahara Dakhla, Smara Zambia Kitwe, Livingstone, Ndola - Cities can now have two daylight-saving time periods in the same year. There are countries, in fact, that suspend daylight-saving time during Ramadan and then resume it.
- Daylight-saving information for the Gaza Strip, Morocco, Syria, the West Bank, and Western Sahara has been updated. From this year, Morocco and Western Sahara will observe daylight-saving time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September with the exception of Ramadan (estimated start and end dates for Ramadan in 2012 are July 20 and August 18). Syria advanced the start of DST from the first Friday in April to the last Friday in March. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank started daylight-saving time together this year, both at midnight on the last Thursday in March.
- The geographical coordinates of Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe have been corrected, the dissolved Netherlands Antilles have been replaced by Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands, and the Beerenberg volcano in Jan Mayen has been replaced by the Olonkinbyen settlement.
- Some minor memory leaks have been eliminated, some minor bugs have been solved, and some minor interface improvements and fixes have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.11
March 23, 2012
- Daylight-saving time information for Haiti has been updated. After 2005 and 2006, Haiti trials daylight-saving time again in 2012, using the same rule as the United States and Canada (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November).
- A minor interface bug in the Italian Clocks pane has been fixed.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.10
March 8, 2012
20 United States cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
California Barstow, El Segundo, Lompoc, Rosamond, Twentynine Palms Florida Cape Canaveral Hawaii Hilo, Kailua-Kona, Kihei, Lihue, Pearl City Kansas Junction City Louisiana Leesville Mississippi Hattiesburg New Hampshire Nashua New York Watertown North Carolina Asheville, Jacksonville Virginia Quantico, Wallops Island - The offset from UTC of the Australian Antarctic stations Casey and Davis has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, Casey moved from UTC+11 to UTC+8, while Davis switched from UTC+5 to UTC+7.
- Daylight-saving information for Armenia, Chile, Cuba, and the Falkland Islands has been updated. Armenia abolished daylight-saving time. Chile decided to extend DST by 7 weeks this year, with daylight-saving time ending on April 29 and starting again on September 2. Cuba postponed the start of DST from the third Sunday in March to the first Sunday in April. In 2012, the Falkland Islands will trial daylight-saving time all year round for the second time.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.9
January 3, 2012
90 United States cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,400 cities. New cities are:
Arizona Chandler, Tempe, Window Rock California Burbank, Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Concord, Fairfield, Fontana, Fremont, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Glendale, Hayward, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Lancaster, Modesto, Moreno Valley, Oakland, Ontario, Oxnard, Palmdale, Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santa Clarita, Santa Rosa, Stanford, Sunnyvale, Temecula, Thousand Oaks, Torrance, Vallejo, Visalia, West Covina Colorado Fort Collins Connecticut Stamford Florida Gainesville, Hialeah Georgia Athens, Augusta, Columbus Illinois Evanston, Naperville, Peoria Indiana Evansville, South Bend Kansas Olathe Louisiana Lafayette Massachusetts Springfield Michigan Warren Minnesota Rochester Missouri Independence, Springfield New Hampshire Hanover New Jersey Elizabeth, Princeton New York Ithaca, Yonkers North Carolina Cary, Durham, Fayetteville, High Point, Wilmington, Winston-Salem Ohio Akron Oklahoma Norman Pennsylvania Allentown, Erie Tennessee Chattanooga, Clarksville Texas Beaumont, Denton, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Lubbock, McAllen, Midland, Pasadena, Plano Virginia Arlington, Chesapeake, Newport News Washington Bellevue, Everett, Tacoma - The offset from UTC of Samoa and Tokelau has been updated. At midnight on December 29, 2011, Samoa (which is currently observing daylight-saving time) and Tokelau jumped from east to west of the international dateline to align with trade partners, moving from UTC-10 to UTC+14.
- The offset from UTC of the Australian Antarctic stations Casey and Davis has been updated. To comport with operational schedules from their supply bases, Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5, while Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
- Daylight-saving information for Brazil, Iran, Israel, and Samoa has been updated. Due to Carnival, DST in Brazil will end one week later this year, on the fourth Sunday in February. In 2012, Iran will observe daylight-saving time from March 21 to September 21, while Israel will observe daylight-saving time from March 30 to September 23. From this year, DST in Samoa will end on the first Sunday in April.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.8
November 4, 2011
24 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
China Xiamen India Durgapur Iran Bandar Abbas Japan Chiba, Fukushima, Hamamatsu, Niigata, Okayama, Sagamihara, Sakai, Shizuoka Nigeria Benin City Russia Kurilsk, Magnitogorsk, Severo-Kurilsk, Sochi, Surgut, Yuzhno-Kurilsk Uganda Entebbe United Kingdom Truro United States Atlantic City, NJ West Bank Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah - Daylight-saving information for Cuba, Fiji, Ukraine, and the Brazilian state of Bahia has been updated. Bahia reintroduced daylight-saving time this year, Cuba postponed the end of DST from October 30 to November 13, 2011, Fiji will advance the end of DST from February 26 to January 22, 2012, and Ukraine canceled its previous decision to permanently remain on daylight-saving time and switched back to standard time on October 30, 2011.
- Two minor incompatibilities with macOS 10.7 Lion have been solved. The position of the Clocks palette pop-up menus has been corrected and the desktop-level Clocks palette remains visible now when the desktop is shown with Mission Control.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.7
September 23, 2011
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.7 Lion have been solved.
- The configuration of the show/hide palette keyboard shortcut has been revised so that Unicode keyboards and the F17, F18, F19 keys are now supported. In addition to that, shortcuts containing function keys, arrow keys, or keypad keys do not require modifiers anymore and keypad keys appear in square brackets [ ] in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
- The offset from UTC of the Kuril Islands and Ust-Nera, Russia has been updated after some districts of the Sakhalin region and Sakha Republic moved from Magadan Summer Time (UTC+12) to Vladivostok Summer Time (UTC+11) on August 31, 2011.
- Daylight-saving time information for the Palestinian Territories, Samoa, Ukraine, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador has been updated. This year, the Gaza Strip advanced the end of DST on August 1, before the beginning of Ramadan, while the West Bank suspended daylight-saving time during Ramadan and resumed it on August 30. Samoa will start DST one day earlier, on September 24, and Ukraine abolished the switch to standard time and will observe daylight-saving time all year round. The Newfoundland and Labrador province amended its DST legislation to start and end daylight-saving time at 2:00 AM in line with the rest of North America.
- Some minor bugs have been fixed.
- Minimum required system version is now macOS 10.4.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.6
April 22, 2011
- The standard UTC offset of Irkutsk, Russia has been reverted to UTC+8. It was planned that the Irkutsk region would move to Krasnoyarsk Time (UTC+7) on March 27, 2011, but the transistion has been postponed indefinitely.
- Daylight-saving time information for Egypt and the Falkland Islands has been updated. Egypt abolished daylight-saving time, while the Falkland Islands did not switch back to standard time on April 17 and will trial daylight-saving time all year round in 2011.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.5
March 30, 2011
- The offset from UTC of Irkutsk, Russia has been updated after the Irkutsk region moved from Irkutsk Time (UTC+8) to Krasnoyarsk Time (UTC+7) on March 27, 2011.
- Daylight-saving time information for Belarus, Chile, the Gaza Strip, Morocco, Russia, Samoa, Turkey, the West Bank, and Western Sahara has been updated. Starting from March 27, 2011, Russia will observe daylight-saving time all year round and Belarus will probably do the same. This year, Morocco and Western Sahara will observe daylight-saving time from April 3 to July 31, while DST in Turkey started one day later, on March 28, due to a nationwide exam on March 27. To increase energy savings, Chile decided to further postpone the end of daylight-saving time to May 8. In addition to that, winter time in Chile will last less than 4 months this year with DST starting on the third Saturday in August. Daylight-saving time in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip will start on April 1 and 2, respectively and Samoa will advance the end of DST from April 3 to April 2.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.4
March 8, 2011
- Daylight-saving time information for Chile and Cuba has been updated. This year, Chile has extended daylight-saving time (which was originally planned to end on March 13) to continue until April 3 to face water shortage in reservoirs and avoid a possible energy crisis. Cuba decided to postpone the start of DST from the second to the third Sunday in March.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.3
January 11, 2011
- Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Israel, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. Fiji advanced the end of daylight-saving time to the first Sunday in March. Israel will observe DST from April 1 to October 2 this year. Morocco and Western Sahara may not observe daylight-saving time in 2011.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.2
September 1, 2010
22 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,300 cities. New cities are:
France Besançon, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Le Havre, Limoges, Metz, Nancy, Orléans, Rouen, Toulon, Tours United Kingdom Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Coventry, Kingston upon Hull, Leicester, Nottingham, Oxford, York - Daylight-saving information for Egypt, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank has been updated. Egypt has suspended DST during Ramadan and will resume it from September 10 to October 1. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank advanced the end of daylight-saving time to August 11
- On macOS 10.6, the lowest palette level is now “Desktop icons” so that the Clocks palette doesn’t stop receiving mouse clicks after the Finder is activated.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7.1
August 5, 2010
48 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,250 cities. New cities are:
Australia Albury, NSW, Burnie, TAS, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Geraldton, WA, Gladstone, QLD, Hervey Bay, QLD, Jervis Bay, JBT, Kalgoorlie, WA, Katherine, NT, Mildura, VIC, Mount Gambier, SA, Nhulunbuy, NT, Port Lincoln, SA, Port Pirie, SA, Tamworth, NSW, Tennant Creek, NT, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Wodonga, VIC Austria Bregenz, Klagenfurt Chile Arica, Copiapó, Coyhaique, Valdivia Cuba Cayo Coco, Isla de la Juventud, Nuevitas, Pinar del Río, Santiago de Cuba, Varadero Denmark Roskilde Equatorial Guinea Bata Germany Erfurt, Kiel, Magdeburg, Mainz, Potsdam, Rostock, Saarbrücken, Wiesbaden Ireland Galway Mexico Cabo San Lucas, Cozumel, La Paz, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, San Luis Potosí, Torreón - Daylight-saving information for Egypt has been updated. Egypt will suspend DST during Ramadan this year. Daylight-saving time will end on August 11 and then resume from September 10 to October 1.
- The Help > Look Up Latitude & Longitude command now takes you to the GeoNames geographical database which covers all countries, including the United States and Antarctica.
World Clock Deluxe 4.7
May 10, 2010
96 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,200 cities. New cities are:
Antarctica Bernardo O’Higgins, Eduardo Frei, Esperanza, Jubany, Marambio, Mirny, Neumayer, Orcadas, SANAE IV, Scott Base Australia Macquarie Island, TAS Bangladesh Barisal, Bogra, Comilla, Cox’s Bazar, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet Bhutan Paro, Phuentsholing, Trongsa Brunei Kuala Belait, Muara, Seria Cambodia Battambang, Siem Reap, Sihanoukville French Polynesia Austral Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago Indonesia Cirebon, Kediri, Maumere, Pangkal Pinang, Pekalongan, Sumbawa Besar, Tasikmalaya, Tegal Laos Luang Prabang, Pakse, Savannakhet Malaysia Bandar Labuan, George Town, Ipoh, Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan, Shah Alam Myanmar Mawlamyaing Nepal Bharatpur, Biratnagar, Birganj, Mahendranagar, Pokhara New Zealand Hamilton, Invercargill, Napier-Hastings, Palmerston North, Tauranga North Korea Chongjin, Hamhung, Namp’o Pakistan Gilgit, Gujranwala, Gwadar, Hyderabad, Multan, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Sialkot Papua New Guinea Lae, Mount Hagen, Rabaul Philippines Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, Makati, Quezon City, Zamboanga City South Korea Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, Suwon, Ulsan Sri Lanka Kandy, Negombo, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, Trincomalee Taiwan Magong, Tainan Thailand Hat Yai, Koh Chang, Koh Samui, Udon Thani Vietnam Buon Ma Thuot, Can Tho, Nha Trang - World Clock Deluxe now supports all-year-round daylight-saving time.
- Daylight-saving information for Morocco, Samoa, Western Sahara, and for San Luis, Argentina has been updated. Morocco and Western Sahara observe DST from May 2 to August 8 this year. Samoa will trial daylight-saving time from the last Sunday in September to the first Sunday in April. The San Luis province in Argentina extended daylight-saving time (which was originally planned to end on April 11) without setting any end date for the moment.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.10
March 29, 2010
- Ensenada, Mexico has been added to the World Clock Deluxe cities database. The city of Ensenada in Baja California, located about 70 miles from the Northern Mexican border, has also adopted the United States daylight-saving time rule (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November).
The offset from UTC of 8 Russian cities has been updated after the Kamchatka, Chukotka, Udmurtia, Samara, and Kemerovo regions in Russia moved to different time zones and Russia reduced the number of its time zones from 11 to 9 on March 28, 2010. Edited cities are:
Samara Oblast Samara from UTC+4 to UTC+3 Samara Oblast Tolyatti from UTC+4 to UTC+3 Udmurt Republic Izhevsk from UTC+4 to UTC+3 Kemerovo Oblast Kemerovo from UTC+7 to UTC+6 Kemerovo Oblast Novokuznetsk from UTC+7 to UTC+6 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Anadyr from UTC+12 to UTC+11 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Provideniya from UTC+12 to UTC+11 Kamchatka Krai Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski from UTC+12 to UTC+11 - The offset from UTC of the Australian Antarctic stations Casey and Davis has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, Casey switched back to UTC+8, while Davis reverted to UTC+7.
- Daylight-saving time information for Bangladesh, Pakistan, Syria, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank has been updated. Bangladesh and Pakistan decided to cancel daylight-saving time. Syria postponed the start of DST from the last Friday in March to the first Friday in April. Daylight-saving time in the West Bank and in Gaza started on March 26 and 27, respectively and will end on October 4, this year.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.9
March 10, 2010
- Daylight-saving time information for Chile, Egypt, Fiji, and Paraguay has been updated. Fiji advances the end of daylight-saving time from April 25 to March 28 due to growing complaints across the country. DST will then return on October 24. Chile decided to postpone the end of daylight-saving time from March 14 to April 4 due to the recent earthquake. Paraguay amended its DST start and end dates (first Sunday in October to the second Sunday in April) as part of a series of measures to rationalize electricity consumption. Egypt will probably observe daylight-saving time from April 30 to August 6 this year.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.8
January 12, 2010
- If you use Spaces, you can now have the Clocks palette always available, no matter which space you’re in, by selecting the Show palette in all spaces checkbox in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
- Daylight-saving time information for Bangladesh, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. This year, Bangladesh will observe DST from March 31 to November 1, while in Israel DST will start on March 26 and end on September 12. Egypt, Morocco, and Western Sahara may not observe daylight-saving time in 2010.
10 cities on the Northern Mexican border will soon adopt the same daylight-saving time rule as the United States (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November). Daylight-saving time information has therefore been updated for Tijuana and Mexicali in the state of Baja California, and the remaining 8 border cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
Chihuahua Ciudad Juárez, Ojinaga Coahuila Ciudad Acuña, Piedras Negras Nuevo León Anáhuac Tamaulipas Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Matamoros - Some other minor improvements have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.7
November 18, 2009
126 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,100 cities. New cities are:
Albania Durrës Austria Innsbruck Belgium Antwerp, Bruges, Charleroi, Ghent, Liège, Namur Bosnia and Herzegovina Banja Luka Bulgaria Burgas, Plovdiv, Ruse, Varna Croatia Dubrovnik, Rijeka, Split Cyprus Limassol Czech Republic Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň Denmark Aalborg, Århus, Odense Estonia Tartu France Ajaccio, Bordeaux, Brest, Lille, Montpellier, Nantes, Reims, Rennes, Strasbourg Georgia Batumi Germany Bremen, Bremerhaven, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Essen, Hannover, Leipzig, Lübeck, Nuremberg, Stuttgart Greece Larissa, Patras, Thessaloniki, Volos Ireland Limerick Israel Ashdod, Beersheba, Eilat, Haifa Italy Bari, Cagliari, Trieste, Turin Jordan Aqaba, Zarqa Kazakhstan Atyrau, Baikonur, Karaganda, Oral, Shymkent Lithuania Kaunas, Klaipėda Macedonia Bitola Netherlands Eindhoven, Utrecht Poland Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Katowice, Lublin, Szczecin Portugal Braga, Coimbra, Faro Romania Cluj-Napoca, Constanţa, Iaşi, Timişoara Serbia Niš, Novi Sad Slovakia Košice Slovenia Maribor Spain A Coruña, Alicante, Córdoba, Málaga, Murcia, Zaragoza Sweden Kiruna, Luleå, Sundsvall, Umeå, Uppsala Switzerland Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, St. Gallen, Winterthur Syria Aleppo, Homs, Latakia, Tartus Turkey Adana, Bursa, Gaziantep, İzmir, Samsun United Arab Emirates Al Ain United Kingdom Aberdeen, Bristol, Inner and Outer Hebrides, Leeds, Manchester, Orkney, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Shetland Islands, Southampton Yemen Al Hudaydah, Ta’izz - The offset from UTC of the Australian Antarctic stations Casey, Davis, and Mawson has been updated. To comport with operational schedules from their supply bases, Davis and Mawson moved to UTC+5, while Casey moved to UTC+11.
- Casey Time (CAST), Oral Time (ORAT), and Fiji Summer Time (FJST) have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
- Daylight-saving information for Fiji, Syria, and San Luis, Argentina has been updated. San Luis and Syria changed their DST end date, while Fiji reintroduces daylight-saving time this year, starting on the last Sunday in November and ending on the last Sunday in April.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.6
October 20, 2009
- The Clocks palette pop-up menu, the Dock icon menu, and the World Clock Deluxe status menu can now show your clocks’ daylight-saving time transitions so that you can easily see which cities are about to turn clocks forward or backward - they are marked with an asterisk (*) - and when daylight-saving time will exactly start or end for each of them. If you prefer to hide daylight-saving time transitions in a menu, deselect the corresponding Show daylight-saving time transitions checkbox in the Menus pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
- Daylight-saving time information for Argentina, Bangladesh, and Samoa has been updated. Argentina, with the exception of the San Luis province, canceled daylight-saving time. Bangladesh extended daylight-saving time (which was originally planned to end on October 1) without setting any end date for the moment. Due to the recent tsunami, Samoa decided to postpone its DST trial to September 2010.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.5
August 28, 2009
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.6 Snow Leopard have been solved.
- Daylight-saving time end date for Bangladesh has been updated (October 1, 2009).
- Some minor bugs have been fixed and some revisions and minor improvements have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.4
August 12, 2009
- Daylight-saving time information for Egypt has been updated. Due to Ramadan which this year starts on August 22, Egypt decided to advance the end of daylight-saving time from September 25 to August 21.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.3
June 11, 2009
- Daylight-saving time information for Western Australia, Bangladesh, Mauritius, and Samoa has been updated. With a referendum held on May 16 Western Australia rejected daylight-saving after a three-year trial. Bangladesh and Samoa will both trial DST this year, starting on June 20 and October 4, respectively. Mauritius decided not to repeat last year’s daylight-saving time trial.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.2
May 8, 2009
- Check for updates has been fully revised and lets you now check for updates both manually and automatically. To set World Clock Deluxe to check for updates automatically or schedule how often you want it to check, open the Software Update pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
- Daylight-saving time information for Pakistan has been updated. Pakistan observes DST from April 15 to November 1 this year.
- A bug that caused clocks and your local date and time to be missing or outdated in the menu bar while World Clock Deluxe displayed a modal window or alert has been fixed.
- Some minor improvements concerning lists and keyboard focus have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6.1
April 2, 2009
- Daylight-saving time information for the Gaza Strip, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank, and Western Sahara has been updated. Morocco and Western Sahara will observe DST from from June 1 to August 21 this year. Syria advanced the start of daylight-saving time to the last Friday in March, while the Gaza Strip and the West Bank will end daylight-saving time on September 28. Tunisia decided to cancel daylight-saving time.
World Clock Deluxe 4.6
March 17, 2009
88 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,000 cities. New cities are:
Afghanistan Herat, Kandahar, Mazari Sharif Bangladesh Khulna China Anshan, Changchun, Changsha, Dalian, Fushun, Fuzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Jinan, Kunming, Lanzhou, Qingdao, Qiqihar, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Tangshan, Xining, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou India Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Faridabad, Guwahati, Indore, Jamshedpur, Laccadive Islands, Ludhiana, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram Japan Hiroshima, Kawasaki, Saitama Russia Aldan, Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Barnaul, Chita, Ivanovo, Izhevsk, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Krasnodar, Kuril Islands, Lensk, Lipetsk, Mirny, Naberezhnye Chelny, Neryungri, Nizhny Novgorod, Norilsk, Novokuznetsk, Novorossiysk, Orenburg, Penza, Provideniya, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Stavropol, Tolyatti, Tomsk, Tula, Tyumen, Ulan-Ude, Ulyanovsk, Ust-Nera, Vanino, Verkhoyansk, Voronezh, Yaroslavl Taiwan Kaohsiung, Taichung Thailand Chiang Mai Vietnam Da Nang, Hai Phong Yemen Socotra - The offset from UTC of San Luis, Argentina has been changed from UTC-3 to UTC-4 after the San Luis province adopted Western Argentina Time on March 15, 2009.
- Western Argentina Time (WART) and Western Argentina Summer Time (WARST) have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
- Daylight-saving information for Brazil, Chile, Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Israel, Iran, and the West Bank has been updated.
- The repositioning of the Clocks palette after screen configuration changes involving multiple displays has been improved. In addition to that, you can now automatically keep the Clocks palette always on your primary screen when you connect one or more external displays to your computer by selecting the “Always show palette on primary screen” checkbox in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
- An incompatibility with macOS 10.5 that could cause the loss of the World Clock Deluxe preferences under particular circumstances has been solved.
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed and some minor improvements have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.5.7
November 5, 2008
- Daylight-saving time information for Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Río Gallegos, San Juan, and Ushuaia has been updated, since the Western Argentine provinces (Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, La Roja, San Juan, Mendoza, San Luis, Neuguén, La Pampa, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur) have decided not to observe daylight-saving time this year.
15 Argentine cities have been added so that now all Argentine provinces are included in the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
Buenos Aires Province La Plata, Bahía Blanca Chaco Province Resistencia Chubut Province Rawson, Comodoro Rivadavia Corrientes Province Corrientes Entre Ríos Province Paraná Formosa Province Formosa La Pampa Province Santa Rosa Misiones Province Posadas Neuguén Province Neuguén Río Negro Province Viedma Salta Province Salta Santa Fe Province Santa Fe Santiago del Estero Province Santiago del Estero - Daylight-saving time end date for Syria has been updated (November 1, 2008).
World Clock Deluxe 4.5.6
October 3, 2008
- Daylight-saving time information for Argentina has been updated. Argentina will observe DST from the third Sunday in October to the third Sunday in March this year.
World Clock Deluxe 4.5.5
September 2, 2008
- Daylight-saving time for Brazil, the Gaza Strip, Mauritius, Morocco, Pakistan, and Western Sahara has been updated. Brazil will start DST time on October 19 this year, while Mauritius amended its DST start and end dates (last Sunday in October to last Sunday in March). Gaza, Morocco, and Western Sahara advanced the end of daylight-saving time due to Ramadan which started on September 1, while Pakistan decided to extend DST to November 1.
- The city of Bethlehem in the West Bank has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
World Clock Deluxe 4.5.4
July 7, 2008
99 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains 900 cities. New cities are:
Algeria Annaba, Biskra, Constantine, Oran, Tamanrasset, Tindouf Angola Cabinda, Huambo, Lubango Bolivia Cochabamba, Oruro, Potosí Brazil Aracaju, Florianópolis, Goiânia, João Pessoa, Joinville, Macapá, Palmas, São Luís, Vitória Chad Faya-Largeau, Moundou, Sarh Colombia Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta Dem. Republic of the Congo Kananga, Kisangani, Kolwezi, Mbuji-Mayi Egypt Kharga, Port Said, Siwa, Suez Ethiopia Dire Dawa, Gondar Kenya Eldoret, Kisumu, Malindi, Mombasa, Nakuru Libya Al Jawf, Benghazi, Ghadames, Misratah, Sabha, Tobruk Madagascar Toamasina, Toliara Mali Kayes, Kidal, Mopti, Sikasso, Timbuktu Morocco Fes, Marrakesh, Tangier Mozambique Beira, Nacala, Nampula Namibia Oranjemund, Walvis Bay Niger Agadez, Arlit, Zinder Paraguay Ciudad del Este Peru Arequipa, Chiclayo, Cusco, Huancayo, Iquitos, Piura, Trujillo Saudi Arabia Dammam, Medina Somaliland Hargeisa South Africa Bloemfontein, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth Sudan Al-Fashir, Al-Ubayyid, Juba, Kassala, Port Sudan Tanzania Arusha, Kigoma, Mwanza, Zanzibar Venezuela Barquisimeto, Ciudad Guayana, Maracaibo, Maracay, San Cristóbal, Valencia Zimbabwe Bulawayo - The offset from UTC of Rio Branco in the Brazilian state of Acre has been changed from UTC-5 to UTC-4 after Brazil abolished its forth time zone on June 24, 2008.
- Mauritius will reintroduce daylight-saving time this year as a trial: DST will start on November 1, 2008 and end on March 31, 2009.
World Clock Deluxe 4.5.3
June 3, 2008
- Daylight-saving time information for Morocco and Pakistan has been updated. Both countries are reintroducing daylight-saving time this year as a trial: Morocco will observe DST from June 1 to September 28, while Pakistan moved clocks one hour ahead on June 1 and will most probably move them back one hour on September 1.
World Clock Deluxe 4.5.2
April 3, 2008
- Daylight-saving time information for Cuba, the Gaza Strip, Guatemala, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria has been updated. Iraq decided to abolish daylight-saving time, while Guatemala revoked its plan to reintroduce daylight-saving time in 2008. Cuba, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, and Syria changed their DST start date.
- The World Clock Deluxe date formats let you now display the day of the year (001-366) which is widely used in spaceflight operations and space sciences.
- Some minor bugs concerning the editing of date formats have been fixed.
World Clock Deluxe 4.5.1
March 4, 2008
- Daylight-saving time information for Chile and Guatemala has been updated. Chile decided to extend daylight-saving time this year from the second to the last Saturday in March as part of a series of measures to address the energy problems caused by a monthslong drought. Guatemala is reintroducing daylight-saving time in 2008 and will observe it from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September.
- San Luis, Argentina has been added to the World Clock Deluxe cities database. After Argentina moved to daylight-saving time on December 30, 2007, the San Luis province decided to return to standard time on January 21, 2008 much earlier than the rest of the country.
World Clock Deluxe 4.5
January 28, 2008
190 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains 800 cities. New cities are:
Argentina Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Río Gallegos, San Juan Australia Alice Springs, NT, Ballarat, VIC, Bendigo, VIC, Broken Hill, NSW, Bunbury, WA, Bundaberg, QLD, Eucla, WA, Geelong, VIC, Launceston, TAS, Mackay, QLD, Mandurah, WA, Port Hedland, WA, Rockhampton, QLD, Sunshine Coast, QLD, Toowoomba, QLD, Townsville, QLD, Wollongong, NSW Brazil Porto Velho Canada Abbotsford, BC, Arviat, NU, Baker Lake, NU, Banff, AB, Blanc-Sablon, QC, Brandon, MB, Cambridge Bay, NU, Cape Breton, NS, Cape Dorset, NU, Coral Harbour, NU, Corner Brook, NL, Cranbrook, BC, Dawson City, YT, Dawson Creek, BC, Fredericton, NB, Grand Falls-Windsor, NL, Hamilton, ON, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, Hay River, NT, Igloolik, NU, Inuvik, NT, Kelowna, BC, Kitchener, ON, Kugluktuk, NU, Labrador City, NL, Lethbridge, AB, Lloydminster, AB-SK, London, ON, Moncton, NB, Moose Jaw, SK, Niagara Falls, ON, Oshawa, ON, Pangnirtung, NU, Pond Inlet, NU, Prince Albert, SK, Rainy River, ON, Rankin Inlet, NU, Red Deer, AB, Saguenay, QC, Saskatoon, SK, Sherbrooke, QC, Summerside, PE, Thompson, MB, Thunder Bay, ON, Trois-Rivières, QC, Victoria, BC, Windsor, ON China Baotou, Lhasa, Nanjing, Nanning, Ürümqi Indonesia Ambon, Banda Aceh, Bandar Lampung, Bengkulu, Bogor, Jambi, Malang, Mataram, Padang, Palangkaraya, Pekanbaru, Pontianak, Samarinda, Semarang, Surakarta, Yogyakarta Marshall Islands Kwajalein Atoll Mexico Hermosillo, Mérida Mongolia Choibalsan Portugal Madeira Russia Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Saint Barthélemy Gustavia Saint Martin Marigot Ukraine Donetsk United States Abilene, TX, Albany, NY, Alexandria, VA, Amarillo, TX, Anaheim, CA, Ann Arbor, MI, Annapolis, MD, Arlington, TX, Aspen, CO, Aurora, CO, Aurora, IL, Bakersfield, CA, Baton Rouge, LA, Bethesda, MD, Bridgeport, CT, Brownsville, TX, Buffalo, NY, Cambridge, MA, Carson City, NV, Cedar Rapids, IA, Charleston, SC, Cincinnati, OH, Cleveland, OH, Colorado Springs, CO, Corpus Christi, TX, Dayton, OH, Eugene, OR, Fairbanks, AK, Fargo, ND, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Fort Wayne, IN, Fort Worth, TX, Frankfort, KY, Fresno, CA, Glendale, AZ, Grand Rapids, MI, Greensboro, NC, Hampton, VA, Harrisburg, PA, Huntsville, AL, Jacksonville, FL, Jefferson City, MO, Jersey City, NJ, Juneau, AK, Kansas City, MO, Key West, FL, Lansing, MI, Laredo, TX, Lexington-Fayette, KY, Long Beach, CA, Mesa, AZ, Mesquite, TX, Mobile, AL, New Haven, CT, Nome, AK, Norfolk, VA, Oceanside, CA, Olympia, WA, Omaha, NE, Palo Alto, CA, Pasadena, CA, Pittsburgh, PA, Pueblo, CO, Reno, NV, Riverside, CA, Rochester, NY, San Antonio, TX, Santa Fe, NM, Savannah, GA, Scottsdale, AZ, Shreveport, LA, Spokane, WA, Springfield, IL, St. Petersburg, FL, Stockton, CA, Syracuse, NY, Tallahassee, FL, Tampa, FL, Toledo, OH, Trenton, NJ, Tucson, AZ, Tulsa, OK, Unalaska, AK, Virginia Beach, VA, Wilmington, DE, Worcester, MA US Minor Outlying Islands Johnston Atoll, Midway Islands, Wake Island Uzbekistan Samarkand - Five time zones have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains 218 time zones and world times. New time zones are Argentina Summer Time (ARST), Australia Central Western Standard Time (ACWST), Australia Central Western Daylight Time (ACWDT), Sakhalin Time (SAKT) and Sakhalin Summer Time (SAKST).
- Venezuela’s offset from UTC has been updated to - 4 h 30 min and the geographical coordinates of Havana, Cuba and Hobart, TAS, Australia have been corrected.
- DST information has been updated for several countries. Argentina and Iran reintroduced daylight-saving time in 2008. South Australia, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, and Tasmania extended daylight-saving time which now starts on the first Sunday in October and ends on the first Sunday in April. Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Israel, and Syria changed their DST start and/or end dates.
- World Clock Deluxe now shows a progress window while it is updating cities, time zones and DST rules and, once the update is terminated, displays a detailed report of all changes.
- Clocks in the Dock can now show weekday and date instead of city, time zone or alternate text. To display weekdays and dates in the Dock, configure clocks so that they show weekday and date and hide city, time zone and alternate text.
- A bug that caused menu bar shortcuts to be active despite the Dock icon was hidden and World Clock Deluxe had no menu bar has been fixed.
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed and several improvements, mainly concerning the updating of clocks in the palette, menu bar and Dock, have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.4.9
October 26, 2007
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.5 Leopard have been solved.
- Some minor bugs have been fixed and some minor interface improvements have been introduced.
- Minimum required system version is now macOS 10.3.9.
World Clock Deluxe 4.4.8
October 8, 2007
- Cities and and DST rules have been revised and updated. The Brazilian regions observing daylight-saving time (Central-West, Southeast and South) changed DST rule (second Sunday in October to third Sunday in February). Syria, due to Ramadan which this year lasts from September 13 to October 12, decided to postpone the end of daylight-saving time from October 1 to November 1.
World Clock Deluxe 4.4.7
June 21, 2007
95 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
Åland Islands Mariehamn Australia Cairns, QLD, Gold Coast, QLD, Newcastle, NSW Austria Graz, Linz, Salzburg Belize Belize City Benin Cotonou Bolivia Santa Cruz, Sucre Chile Antofagasta, Concepción, Iquique, La Serena, Puerto Montt, Punta Arenas, Rancagua, Talca, Talcahuano, Temuco, Valparaíso, Viña del Mar Egypt Giza, Hurghada, Luxor, Sharm el-Sheikh Finland Oulu, Tampere, Turku France Nice, Toulouse Germany Cologne, Hamburg Greece Crete, Rhodes India Delhi, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi (Cochin), Lucknow, Nagpur, Vadodara (Baroda) Iran Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Tabriz Iraq Arbil, Basra, Mosul Italy Bologna, Genoa Malawi Blantyre Malaysia Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Putrajaya Myanmar Mandalay, Naypyidaw Netherlands Rotterdam, The Hague New Zealand Christchurch Nigeria Ibadan, Kaduna, Port Harcourt Norway Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim Pakistan Faisalabad, Peshawar Philippines Cebu City, Davao City Poland Cracow, Łódź, Poznań, Wrocław Serbia Priština Spain Balearic Islands, Sevilla, Valencia Sudan Omdurman Swaziland Lobamba Sweden Gothenburg, Malmö Switzerland Basel Thailand Khon Kaen, Pattaya, Phuket Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Lviv, Simferopol United Arab Emirates Sharjah United Kingdom Glasgow United States Blacksburg, VA - Daylight-saving time information for New Zealand, the Amundsen-Scott and McMurdo stations in Antarctica, and the Turks and Caicos Islands has been updated. The Turks and Caicos Islands adopted the new United States DST rule (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November), while beginning in September 2007, daylight-saving time in New Zealand, Amundsen-Scott, and McMurdo will start on the last Sunday in September and end on the first Sunday in April.
- A bug that prevented combinations including the Control-Escape keys from being assigned to the show/hide palette shortcut has been fixed.
- Some other minor improvements and fixes have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.4.6
April 3, 2007
- Daylight-saving time information for Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Jordan, Mongolia, and Syria has been updated. Haiti, Honduras, and Mongolia recently decided to abolish DST. Cuba adopted the new United States DST rule (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November). Syria and Jordan changed the date of DST start and end, respectively.
World Clock Deluxe 4.4.5
February 20, 2007
- The position of the World Clock Deluxe status menu can be controlled now. Besides the normal positioning, you can now force the World Clock Deluxe status menu to always appear to the left of all your other status menus, or display it centered between your other status menus and menu extras, or position it to the right of all menu extras, immediately before the Spotlight icon.
- Clocks rotation in the menu bar is now smoother on macOS 10.3 or later.
65 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
Argentina Córdoba, Mar del Plata, Mendoza, Rosario, Tucumán, Ushuaia Bangladesh Chittagong Brazil Belém, Belo Horizonte, Boa Vista, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Maceió, Natal, Salvador, Teresina China Chengdu, Guiyang, Shenzhen Colombia Medellín Ecuador Guayaquil Egypt Alexandria Guernsey St. Peter Port India Pune, Surat, Varanasi (Benares) Indonesia Balikpapan, Manado Isle of Man Douglas Israel Tel Aviv Jersey Saint Helier Mexico Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cancún, León, Mexicali, Monterrey, Puebla, Veracruz Montenegro Podgorica Morocco Casablanca New Zealand Auckland Nigeria Kano Russia Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Ufa Saudi Arabia Jeddah South Africa Johannesburg South Korea Busan Ukraine Odessa United States Augusta, ME, Billings, MT, Concord, NH, Madison, WI, Montgomery, AL, Montpelier, VT, Nashville, TN, Orlando, FL, Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, CA, Saint Paul, MN, Salem, OR, San Jose, CA, Sioux Falls, SD, Topeka, KS - Bahamas changed DST rule to step in line with the new United States rule (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November).
- Some minor bugs have been fixed.
World Clock Deluxe 4.4
December 1, 2006
- Time zone abbreviations (standard and daylight) have been associated to cities so that city clocks can now display the time zone (e.g. New York, 5:25 PM EST or Sydney, 9:25 AM AEDT).
- A type (standard or daylight) has been associated to time zones, so that World Clock Deluxe can correctly suggest standard and daylight time zone abbreviations while you are adding or editing cities. In addition to that, the Calculate Longitude button has replaced the two Standard Time Zone and Daylight Time Zone buttons which allowed you to automatically calculate longitudes while adding or editing time zones.
- Cities, time zones and daylight saving time rules have been revised and updated. Western Australia and Honduras introduced DST, while Iran abolished it. Brazil, Uruguay, Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan changed their DST start and/or end dates. Beginning in 2007, DST in the United States, Canada, Bermuda and Saint Pierre and Miquelon will start on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November. Wake Time has been corrected to UTC+12. Greenland time zones have been revised: the time zone observed by the northwestern part of Greenland (UTC-4) is Atlantic Time, while the time zone observed by the southwest and south coast of Greenland (UTC-3) is Western Greenland Time. Several time zone names and/or abbreviations have been updated. The city of Gaza and four new time zones (Cuba Standard Time, Cuba Daylight Time, Irish Summer Time, Western Samoa Time) have been added. DST rules have been introduced for Bahamas, Eastern and Western Greenland, Haiti and Turks and Caicos Islands.
- A minor bug concerning daylight-saving time validation when cities are added or edited has been fixed.
World Clock Deluxe 4.3.1
March 22, 2006
- World Clock Deluxe is now Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs.
- Cities, time zones and DST rules have been revised and updated. The offset from UTC of Sri Lanka has been changed to + 5 h 30 min in anticipation of the effective time zone zone change that will take place on April 13, 2006. Danmarkshavn, Greenland has been added and Western and Central Greenland Time have been corrected to UTC-4 and UTC-3, respectively. DST rules have been introduced for Brazil, Falkland Islands, Mongolia and Uruguay.
World Clock Deluxe 4.3
February 8, 2006
- The Clocks palette can now be anchored to a screen corner so that its position doesn’t change as the palette size varies or the screen resolution changes. To anchor the palette, start dragging it as usual and then press Command-A to activate an anchor corner.
- Analog clocks in the palette and in the Dock can now display the offset from UTC.
- The World Clock Deluxe date formats let you now omit the year indication.
- Cities, time zones and DST rules have been revised and updated. Georgia and Kyrgyzstan changed time zone (Georgia switched back to UTC+4, while Kyrgyzstan moved to UTC+6) and abolished DST. The state of Indiana, United States introduced DST, while Tunisia and Nicaragua abolished it. Cuba didn’t switch back to standard time at the end of October 2005. Australia, Israel, Jordan and Uruguay changed the start and/or end dates of DST.
- A mistake in the resources made it impossible to decrease the palette opacity under 50% using the slider in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences when the application was running in German, French, Dutch or Italian. Resources have now been corrected.
- A bug that could limit the dragging of the Clocks palette to only part of a secondary display has been fixed.
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed.
World Clock Deluxe 4.2
September 20, 2005
- The Clocks palette controls (close button, resize control and scroll arrows) can now be hidden. To hide controls, deselect the “Hide controls” checkbox in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences or Control-click the palette’s background and choose Hide Controls from the contextual menu. To quickly show or hide controls, simply Shift-click the palette’s background.When controls are hidden, you can close, resize and scroll the palette from its contextual menu. To close the palette you can also click any clock in the palette and choose Close Palette from the displayed pop-up menu.
- Clocks can be made more transparent: minimum opacity is now 20%.
- Transparent clocks can now have an opaque text. To make the text (and hands) opaque when clocks are transparent, select the “Don’t apply to text” checkbox in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
- The Menus pane has been introduced in World Clock Deluxe Preferences. It lets you customize the pop-up menu which appears when you click a clock in the palette, the Dock menu and the World Clock Deluxe status menu. You can add your local date and time and decide whether to show clocks or not. You can list all clocks, visible clocks, or hidden clocks.
- The number of labels has been raised to 10 and default label colors have been rearranged.
- The “Bring to Front/Bring All to Front” command has been added to the pop-up menu which appears when you click a clock in the palette and to the World Clock Deluxe status menu.
- Cities, DST rules and time zones have been revised. Haiti, Nicaragua and Tunisia have introduced DST in 2005, while Kazakhstan abolished it. The UTC offset of Aqtau, Kazakhstan has been updated (it recently switched to UTC+5) and the British Indian Ocean Territory UTC offset has been corrected to UTC+6. Rothera, Antarctica and two new time zones, Pitcairn Time (PNT) and Taiwan Time (TWT), have been added.
- Shift-clicking the Clocks palette’s background shows or hides controls now. To change the palette’s orientation you must now Shift-Command-click its background.
- Two different bugs that could cause the vertical palette to crop the widest digital clock under particular circumstances has been fixed.
- Several other minor improvements have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.1.1
June 17, 2005
- The incompatibilities with System Preferences’ custom date and time formats on macOS 10.4 have been solved.
- World Clock Deluxe now supports the 1-24 and 01-24 hour formats.
- A bug which could cause version 4.1 to crop clocks on macOS 10.3 when the Gujarati, Hindi or Marathi format was selected in the International pane of System Preferences has been fixed.
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed and some other minor improvements have been introduced.
World Clock Deluxe 4.1
April 22, 2005
- The incompatibilities with macOS 10.4 Tiger have been fixed.
- The Show column in the Clocks pane list has been replaced by the Palette, Dock and Menu Bar columns, so that different clocks can now be displayed in the Clocks palette, in the Dock and in the menu bar.
- Keyboard shortcuts have been introduced to speed up showing and hiding clocks. Control-clicking a checkbox in the Clocks pane list simultaneously shows or hides a clock in the Clocks palette, Dock and menu bar. Option-clicking a checkbox shows or hides all clocks in the Dock or menu bar (Dock and Menu Bar columns) and shows all clocks or hides the other clocks in the Clocks palette (Palette column).
- The Clocks pane list can be configured by showing or hiding its columns. To configure the list, click the List Options button in the Clocks pane and select or deselect columns in the displayed dialog.
- The Show Weather button has been introduced in the Clocks pane, so that you can quickly display the current weather in your clocks’ cities.
- While adding, editing or duplicating a time zone you can now automatically calculate its longitude from the UTC offset. To calculate a standard time zone’s longitude, click the Standard Time Zone button. To calculate a daylight time zone’s longitude, click the Daylight Time Zone button.
- The Clocks palette now has a contextual menu that lets you quickly change the way the palette looks and behaves. To display the menu, Control-click the palette’s background.
- Display in the Clocks palette has been improved by reducing the height of text lines (the line height is now set to the current font’s default line height).
- The Advanced pane has been introduced in World Clock Deluxe Preferences. It lets you open World Clock Deluxe automatically at startup and hide the World Clock Deluxe icon in the Dock. When the icon in the Dock is hidden, World Clock Deluxe is a background-only application and has no menu bar: to open windows, view the Help, and quit the application, use the World Clock Deluxe status menu towards the right end of the menu bar.
- The Default Clock pane in World Clock Deluxe Preferences lets you now specify where new clocks should appear: in the palette, Dock and/or menu bar.
- Reports in the Weather Reports window can now quickly be collapsed or expanded all by Option-clicking a triangle in the list.
- Cities, DST rules and time zones have been revised. Georgia’s UTC offset has been changed (it recently switched back to UTC+3) and daylight-saving time information for some cities has been updated. Dubai, United Arab Emirates and three new time zones, Ulan Bator Summer Time (ULAST), Hovd Summer Time (HOVST), Uruguay Summer Time (UYST), have been added.
- A bug which could cause the Clocks pane list not to display alternating row background and tooltips has been fixed.
- A bug which could cause label colors not to be updated in dialogs and in the Default Clock pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences has been fixed.
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed and some other minor improvements have been introduced.
- Minimum required system version is now macOS 10.2.
World Clock Deluxe 4.0.1
November 15, 2004
- A bug causing clocks to defer the transition to daylight-saving or standard time if World Clock Deluxe was running during the actual transition, but the computer was sleeping or had been sleeping, has been fixed.
- A bug causing non-rotating clocks in the Clocks palette not to be regularly updated on macOS 10.1.5 has been fixed.
- Full keyboard access and keyboard navigation (text boxes and lists only/any control) are now correctly supported. On macOS 10.2.8 or earlier a bug causing the Clocks palette to be shown or hidden when the toggle full keyboard access, toggle focus for any control, menu, window, toolbar and utility window keyboard shortcuts were pressed has been fixed.
- A mistake in the German resources causing the Show date and time of weather reports menu in the Weather pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences not to pop up has been corrected.
- The Clocks palette is now automatically repositioned and resized considering the whole screen, even when the Dock is always visible.
- When importing cities, World Clock Deluxe looks now for a version 3.x preferences file in the Preferences folder and automatically selects it in the Open dialog.
- The Close command has been added to the Window menu
- Some other minor bugs have been fixed.
World Clock Deluxe 4.0
September 1, 2004
General
- World Clock Deluxe has been rewritten as a Cocoa application.
- The World Clock Deluxe user interface has been completely revised.
- All World Clock Deluxe localizations now share the same preferences. Weather reports and predefined cities, countries, time zones, daylight-saving time rules, date formats, time formats and labels are translated automatically when World Clock Deluxe switches to a different language.
Clocks pane
- The 24-clock limitation has been removed: you can now define as many clocks as you need.
- Clocks can now display an alternate text instead of the associated city’s name or time zone’s abbreviation.
- Two new clock format options have been introduced: date change and UTC offset.
- Weekdays are now displayed in the current World Clock Deluxe language.
- A clock’s date format can now be customized. You can choose a date format differing from the format selected in your International preferences and assign different date formats to different clocks.
- Multiple clocks can now be edited at the same time, so that you can quickly apply one or more format options to multiple clocks.
- Clocks can be duplicated and multiple clocks can now be deleted simultaneously. Clocks can also be deleted by pressing the Delete key.
- Clocks can now be dragged in the Clocks pane list without having to hold the Option key. Multiple clocks can now be dragged at the same time.
- Two new sorting criteria have been introduced: time and longitude offset. Clocks can now be sorted in ascending or descending order and arranged by two sorting criteria.
- On macOS 10.2 or later World Clock Deluxe now always correctly identifies your local city when running for the first time.
Cities & Time Zones pane
- The cities database has been revised and contains over 400 cities now. All capitals have been included and, for multi-time zone countries, at least one city for time zone is now available. For the United States, at least one city (capital or major city) for state is now available. Daylight-saving time information has been revised. Weather station indicators have been added for most cities.
- Cities having the same geographical coordinates of an existing city can now be defined. Countries are now optional. The maximum accepted UTC offset is now + 14 h.
- Daylight-saving time adjustments differing from 1 hour (20, 30, 40 minutes or 2 hours) can now be specified.
- Cities can be duplicated and multiple cities can now be deleted simultaneously. Cities can also be deleted by pressing the Delete key.
- Daylight-saving time rules have been introduced: while adding or editing cities you can display the DST Rules panel providing daylight-saving time rules for most countries or regions observing daylight-saving time. To apply a rule, select the corresponding country or region in the DST Rules panel and click Apply Rule. Daylight-saving time rules can be added, edited, duplicated and deleted.
- World Clock Deluxe 4 does not read your World Clock Deluxe 3.x settings, but, in case you had added a considerable number of cities, gives you the possibility to import cities from your World Clock Deluxe 3.2 or 3.1.1 preferences file. To import cities, choose World Clock Deluxe > Import Cities.
- The time zones database has been revised, contains over 200 time zones now and covers the whole world.
- Time zone names are now optional. The maximum accepted UTC offset is now + 14 h.
- Time zones can be duplicated and multiple time zones can now be deleted simultaneously. Time zones can also be deleted by pressing the Delete key.
Time Converter pane
- An incompatibility with macOS 10.3 or later has been fixed. On macOS 10.3 or later changing the left (right) date and time by typing a new year, month, day, hour or minute didn’t produce a corresponding change of the right (left) date and time unless Return was pressed.
Weather
- World Clock Deluxe shows the current weather by retrieving weather reports via HTTP from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s servers and listing them in the Weather Reports window. To show the current weather in one or more cities, select them in the Cities & Time Zones pane and click Show Weather. To quickly show the weather in your clocks’ cities, Shift-Control-click any clock in the Clocks palette and choose a city or All Cities from the displayed pop-up menu.
- Weather reports can be configured using the Weather pane in World Clock Deluxe Preferences. World Clock Deluxe lets you:
- Automatically clear all reports when quitting
- Show recent reports only (reports are considered recent if issued maximum 24, 48 or 72 hours, 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks before download)
- Display dates and times of reports in Coordinated Universal Time, weather station local times or your local time
- Use Imperial or metric units (temperatures can be displayed in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius, visibility in miles or kilometers, atmospheric pressure in inches of mercury or hectopascals and wind speed in knots, miles per hour, kilometers per hour or meters per second)
- Weather reports can be saved as RTF documents. You can save all reports, the selected reports or the reports issued starting from a certain date. You can optionally skip errors reported during the download.
- Weather reports can be copied to other applications by dragging them to the desired document window.
- Weather reports can be rearranged in the Weather Reports window by dragging them in the list. Multiple reports can be repositioned at the same time.
- Weather reports can be deleted by clicking the Delete button in the Weather Reports window. You can delete all reports, the selected reports, the reports issued before a certain date and the errors reported during the download. Reports can also be deleted by selecting them and pressing the Delete key.
Clocks palette
- The Clocks palette has been redesigned and has a completely new appearance. Drawing in the palette has been improved to reduce CPU usage.
- Analog clocks can now be displayed in the Clocks palette. When clocks are analog, their dial size can be adjusted.
- The palette’s font and type size can now be changed.
- The Clocks palette size has been reduced: different clocks have different widths when the palette is horizontal.
- Transparent clocks now become automatically opaque when the mouse pointer is over the palette.
- The Clocks palette can now lie on three different levels: it can float over all windows, behave as a normal window or lie on your desktop under all open windows.
- A transition effect (fade, slide horizontally, slide vertically) can now be associated to the clocks’ rotation in the palette.
- The palette pop-up menus have been revised. The Pane pop-up menu lets you now quit World Clock Deluxe and display all your clocks, too. The Format pop-up menu has been re-organized. The Rotation Speed pop-up slider has been dropped and a new Show Weather pop-up menu (Shift-Control-click on any clock) has been introduced.
- Some of the modifier keys allowing to quickly accomplish frequent tasks directly from the palette had to be changed. To show and hide clocks from the palette you must now hold the Control key while clicking a clock. To drag clocks in the palette you must now use the Command key. To change the palette’s orientation, you must now Shift-click its background.
Dock
- Clocks in the Dock icon have been redesigned to make them more readable.
- Analog clocks can now be displayed in the Dock icon.
- A transition effect (fade, slide horizontally, slide vertically) can now be associated to the clocks’ rotation in the Dock.
- Clicking the icon in the Dock lets you now also show and hide the Clocks palette.
Menu bar
- World Clock Deluxe lets you now add its icon on the right side of the menu bar and use it to quickly display your clocks in a pop-up menu.
- Clocks can also rotate in the menu bar: both digital and analog clocks can be displayed in the menu bar.
World Clock Deluxe Preferences
- Preferences have been moved to the World Clock Deluxe Preferences window and are displayed by choosing World Clock Deluxe > Preferences.
- Two new preference panes have been added: Menu Bar and Weather. The Menu Bar pane lets you show and rotate clocks in the menu bar and the Weather pane lets you change the way weather reports are displayed in the Weather Reports window.
- The Date & Time Formats pane has replaced the Time Formats pane. The AM/PM and 24-Hour predefined time formats have been replaced by 23 time formats named by region (Australia, Austria, Belgium, ... ). Date formats, also named by region, have been introduced. Date and time formats can be added, edited, duplicated and deleted. Multiple formats can now be deleted simultaneously. Date and time formats can also be deleted by pressing the Delete key.
- Label styles have been introduced in the Labels pane. Both in the Clocks palette and in the Dock icon you can decide whether to display label colors as background colors, as frame colors or as text colors.
Other improvements and fixes
- World Clock Deluxe lets you now check for updates. To see whether a new World Clock Deluxe version is available and download it, choose World Clock Deluxe > Check for Updates.
- The Look Up Weather Station Indicator, Look Up Latitude & Longitude and Look Up UTC Offset & DST commands have been added to the Help menu, so that adding new cities is easier and quicker.
- Several minor bugs have been fixed and several minor improvements have been introduced.