HOW TO TELL TIME ON YOUR BINARY CLOCK
Reading the time on your
Binary Clock is very easy. Below we describe two methods to read the time.
The first method involves looking up the Binary Numbers in a table and
the second method explains how to read the time by adding a few numbers.
Method #1
The Binary clock
displays 3 binary numbers from top to bottom representing the Hours Digit,
Minutes 10’s Digit, and Minutes 1’s Digit. For example, if the time was 4:25
then the top binary number would equal 4, the middle binary number would equal
2 and the bottom binary number would equal 5. Each binary number
is 4 digits long and looks like one of the binary numbers shown in the table below.
Reading the time is as easy as matching each binary number displayed on the
clock to the binary number in the table to find its corresponding value.
Method #2
The Binary clock
displays 3 binary numbers from top to bottom representing the Hours Digit,
Minutes 10’s Digit, and Minutes 1’s Digit. Each binary number
contains four digits and can be calculated by adding up the weighted values
for each column that contains a “1”. All zeros “0”
in the binary number can be safely ignored. As shown in the diagram below,
the position of each “1” digit in the binary number determines its value.
A “1” in the first column signifies an 8 value, in the second column
it signifies a 4 value, in the third column it signifies a 2 value and
a “1” found in the last column signifies a value of 1.
To calculate the value of the binary number,
you just add up the column values associated with each “1” digit found
in the number. For example, the binary number 1011 contains
a “1” in three columns. It contains a “1” in the 8’s column,
the 2’s column, and the 1’s column. Therefore, you would add up the column values
8 + 2 + 1 to arrive at the value of 11 for the binary number. The diagram below shows
how to calculate the time of 9:37 represented by the binary numbers on the clock.
