Emerald Chronometer Release Notes

Local Notification sound now identical to normal alarm sound (increased length and volume)

Local Notifications now delivered when app is not running and an alarm's time is reached
Time base when the device is unlocked changed to avoid jumps when iPhone changes cell towers
Slightly improve reliability of "Disable auto-lock"
Change calendar code to be independent of OS changes to calendar database prior to 1582
Various minor aesthetic improvements and other bug fixes

Add certain small cities whose timezone rules were not represented (e.g., Adak, Alaska and Chatham Islands, NZ)

New world-time watch: Terra
Tap location and NTP status indicators to see details
Holding down on windows now accelerates slowly but continuously rather than suddenly going faster
Holding down on year windows in Set mode now accelerates to a faster rate for easier access to distant years
UTC indicator on Vienna
Help page now linked to developers' blog
Fix bug where timezone failed to update at startup in auto mode
Various minor aesthetic improvements and other bug fixes

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

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

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

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

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

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