Emerald Chronometer Release Notes

Version 3.10.1_gc85bed0 (3.10.1) (2021 Nov 06)

• Support for Dark Mode
• Support for iOS 15

Version 3.9.8_gae8c31b (2020 Jul 05)

• Fix UT minute hand on Geneva when local time has a TZ offset which is not an even hour multiple.

Version 3.9.7_g945f940a (3.9.7.6) (2020 Jan 25)

• Various minor bug fixes

Version 3.9.6_ga6b75b6 (3.9.6.6) (2018 Nov 23)

• Support for iPhone X
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.9.5_ga8404e1 (3.9.5.3, 3.9.5.5) (2017 Apr 16)

• Support for iOS 10
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.9.4-ga026719 (2015 Oct 14)

• Fix crash running under iOS 7.x
• Fix Local Notification issues (double notifications, inappropriate notifications)

Version 3.9.3.4-gb8a0d8e (EC) and 3.9.3-g5df4b04 (ECHD), 2015 Oct 04)

• Fix missing local notifications for alarms (when app is not active) on newly-installed apps in iOS 8+
• Fix early termination of local notifications
• Fix startup issue with iPad Air 2 (ECHD only)

Version 3.9.2-g84e6afa (2015 Feb 22)

• (Emerald Chronometer HD only)
• Fix landscape mode on iOS 7

Version 3.9.1-g9eb2737 (2015 Jan 07)

• Fix black screen on startup on iOS 8 devices
• Fix incorrect moon rotation on Miami back (thanks, Jim!)
• Fix rise/set hands and ring on back of Geneva during DST (thanks, Matt!)
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.9-gcc6fe37 (2013 Oct 17)

• Support for iOS 7
• Various minor aesthetic improvements, help-text edits, and bug fixes

Version 3.8-g4146bac (2012 Jun 04)

• High-resolution images for iPad with Retina display
• Fix occasional delayed alarm on Thebes when returning from background with NTP disabled or unavailable
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.7.3-g781a06e (2012 Mar 08)

• (Emerald Chronometer HD only)
• Fix crash on new iPad with Retina display
• Tweak appearance of 24-hour hand on Vienna

ECHD Version 3.7.2-g4fa2d48 (2012 Feb 10)
EC Version 3.7.2-gb9eb6a4 (2012 Feb 06)

• Reduce footprint on devices with 256 MB RAM

Version 3.7.1-geed7cfe (2012 Feb 03)

• (Emerald Chronometer HD only)
• Tell iOS not to back up generated files

Version 3.7-g05d9c82 (2012 Jan 25)

• (Emerald Chronometer only)
• New watch Babylon with full-month calendar
• Two-stage Reset button on Thebes (interval timer)
• Show Mauna Kea's and Terra's fixed moons with south up for southern observers
• Additional button on Miami back to cycle planets in opposite order
• Fix updates when running backward through midnight
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.6.3-g969858a (2011 Aug 24)

• Increase beat frequency of some watches to more closely match real-life watches
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.6.2-g04fe958 (2011 Jun 13)

• (Emerald Chronometer HD only)
• Warning about running EC HD under iOS 4.2.1
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.6.1-gfbeb829 (2011 Jun 01)

• Allow tapping the AM/PM window in Istanbul when in SET mode to switch between AM and PM.
• Restore longer Local Notification sounds, now that iOS 4.2.1 and iOS 4.3 have restored the old OS behavior.
• Restore missing eclipse indicator dial arc
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.6-g86b2ada (2011 Apr 28)

• First release of Emerald Chronometer HD
• Center the transparent "current city" indicator at the top of Terra
• Elapsed days hands on Olympia enable timing intervals up to 12 days
• Update minute and hour hands at the same rate as the second hands
• Remove spurious graphics from Geneva back face
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.5-g3adc489 (2011 Mar 08)

• New hands for Haleakala and Chandra
• Fix occasional crash when re-entering from background
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and other bug fixes

Version 3.4_r6213 (2010 Dec 20)

• In-app printing of Help pages
• Make Geneva rise/set dials take precedence over hand dragging
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and other bug fixes

Version 3.3_r6167 (2010 Nov 05)

• High resolution graphics for iPhone 4 Retina display
• Various minor aesthetic improvements and other bug fixes

Version 3.2.2_r6027 (2010 Aug 02)

• More useful azimuth displays at the poles
• Fix stuck "Loading" message after flipping front/back or day/night

Version 3.2.1_r6001 (2010 Jul 02)

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

Version 3.2_r5928 (2010 Jun 11)

• 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

Version 3.1.1_r5693 (2010 Apr 29)

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

Version 3.1_r5659 (2010 Apr 18)

• 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

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)