Emerald Chronometer Release Notes

Version 3.0_r5034 (2009 Dec 2)

• 3 new watches:
  • Firenze: heliocentric orrery and local azimuth positions of each planet
  • Miami: rise/set and other info about each planet
  • Vienna: 24 hour time
• Options now set from within Emerald Chronometer
• enhanced manual setting of location and timezone
• grid view showing all active watches, running live
• significant performance improvements when dragging hands on complex watches
• new button layout
• fixed dragging of 24-hour hand on Geneva front
• McAlester dial marks now precisely aligned with hands
• Fixes for polar latitudes
• Various minor aesthetic improvements

Version 2.1.2_r4332 (2009 Sep 18)

• Sidereal moonrise/moonset hands on Geneva back
• Fix moonrise/moonset indicators on back of Mauna Kea when running in reverse
• Darken Istanbul's night mode
• Various minor aesthetic improvements

Version 2.1.1_r4034 (2009 Jul 01)

• Take advantage of increased memory available on newer devices
• Add Settings option to keep the display on only when plugged in
• Fixes for polar latitudes near the first or last rise/set of the season
• New eclipse detector needle and state window on Geneva

Version 2.1_r3920 (2009 Jun 07)

• Geneva:
  • Vernal equinox hand
  • Sun and Moon rise and set dials
  • Next phase button on moon phase
  • Moon age hand/dial
  • Year and century hands
  • Julian/Gregorian indication
  • Sun and Moon hands (draggable)
  • UTC and Solar hands now draggable
  • Lunar orbit ascending and descending node markers (eclipse predictors)
  • Day/night/moonlight ring
• Improved astronomical algorithms
• Aesthetic improvements to various watches
• Moon phase indicator on Haleakala back
• BCE dates now handled correctly; indications on all affected watches
• Advance moon phase button for Mauna Kea back; draggable Mauna Kea front moon
• Background alarm status indicator w/ button to switch to next alarm enabled watch

Version 2.0.3_r3356 (2009 Apr 21)

• Fix unusual crash when country code supplied by iPhone OS is uninitialized
• Fix constellation boundaries on the back of Geneva

Version 2.0.2_r3136 (2009 Mar 27)

• Better selection of NTP servers outside of US
• Solar and sidereal hands on Mauna Kea's back are draggable
• Aesthetic changes on Mauna Kea; misc minor bug fixes

Version 2.0.1_r3033 (2009 Mar 16)

• 4 new watches
  • Geneva: classic multi dial with nine complications
  • Istanbul: alarm
  • Olympia: chronograph (stopwatch)
  • Thebes: countdown timer
• Emerald Chronometer is now (optionally) synchronized with the standard atomic clocks via NTP
• Time and location synchronization indicators
• Switcher screen to more easily change watches
• Editor screen (availalble from the switcher) to choose which watches to display and their order
• Mauna Kea's front-side Moon now shows its phase properly oriented vis-à-vis the Sun
• Mauna Kea now has local apparent solar and sidereal time dials on the back
• Chandra now has alt/az indicators
• Help system enchancements including Status and Index pages
• Various aesthetic improvements
• New application icon

Version 1.5_r2202 (2008 Nov 02)

• Major performance improvements
• Pusher functions
• Option to ignore Location Services
• Chandra:
  • front display rotates to match the Moon's orientation in the sky
  • back shows dates of lunar phases; click 'em to advance to the exact time of the phase
• Haleakala:
  • alt/az hands & dials
  • twilight markers
  • am/pm dot
• Alexandria:
  • hands on the back side and the Sun and Moon markers on the night side
  • terminator changes correctly with the season
  • Moon indicator moves more smoothly and the stars rotate correctly
  • solstice, equinox and peri- and aphelion markers
• McAlester: backside views now controlled by the crown
• Atlantis: minor cosmetic improvements
• Help enchancements
• Many small bug fixes

Version 1.2_r1792 (2008 Aug 30)

• Mauna Kea outer dials now rotate to balance the rise/set indicators
• Settings option to disable auto-lock
• Added solstice and equinox indicators
• Fix Alexandria missing DST & EOT corrections
• Minor tweaks to improve readability

Version 1.1_r1659 (2008 Aug 08)

• iPod touch, tested and officially supported
• Rise & set events near UT midnight bug fixed
• React more promptly to DST transition and other special events
• Fade up last watch image on startup
• Haleakala now displays the rise and set values for this day
• Mauna Kea now displays sun/moon rise and set values appropriate to the current position of the sun/moon
• Misc small bug fixes and documentation tweaks; many changes to conserve memory
• Forward/reverse button now operates only when the crown is out
• Added ability to enter latitude and longitude using the Settings app
• Back side of Alexandria now displays the moon
• Somewhat dimmer bottom-row buttons in night mode

Version 1.0.1_r1458 (2008 Jul 28)

• Fixed startup time and occasional crash on startup the very first time Emerald Chronometer is run on a given iPhone
• Fixed lagging hour hand when unlocking the phone after a while
• Invisible forward/reverse button on the bottom of the back of Atlantis has been removed
• Fixed disappearing status bar when viewing the info pages
• Fixed minor problem with the moon display in Mauna Kea

Version 1.0 (2008 Jul 11)

• Initial release (7 watches)