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Improved Flash-free clocks at 625.uk.com

Wake up and smell the optimisation (March 2017)

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AW
a wiseman
Discovered failure-driven loops (or the FailR loop as I like to call it) and used them to optimise all of the Flash-free clocks today...

ATV blue - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/atv_blue_clock.asp
ATV black - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/atv_black_clock.asp
BBC1 72 - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/bbc1_clock_72.asp
BBC2 72 - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/bbc2_clock_72.asp
BBC1 84 - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/bbc1_clock_84.asp
BBC1 85 - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/bbc1_clock_85.asp
London Weekend - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/lw_clock.asp
TSW - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/tsw_clock.asp
YTV - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/yorkshire_clock.asp
Channel 4 - http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/c4_clock.asp

Pinch, punch and all that.
MM
MMcG198
On desktop - using MS Edge and Chromium - the clocks are displaying the wrong time and are moving in reverse.
VM
VMPhil
On desktop - using MS Edge and Chromium - the clocks are displaying the wrong time and are moving in reverse.

There's always one person who doesn't look at their calendar…
AW
a wiseman
All fixed now Wink

My love affair for the FailR loop is over!
MM
MMcG198
There's always one person who doesn't look at their calendar…


Oh dear. How embarrassing. And no, clearly I hadn't realised the date. Ah well.
elmarko and a wiseman gave kudos
JA
JAS84
Hehe - you've been April Fooled! Very Happy
EL
elmarko
lmao amazing

14 days later

AW
a wiseman
...and if anyone missed the clocks running backwards, you can still set your system clock to before noon on 1/4/2017 and they will go count down to noon again before righting themselves. (I'll remove the code in a later update.)

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