PerfectClock Standard Edition

PerfectClock 2007 is a highly customizable software displaying an unlimited number of world-time clocks on the desktop.

Pros: PerfectClock 2007 allows a nice way of keeping track of time anywhere in the world. In this time of increased globalization working with a distributed team is becoming the norm. For making this work one may need to keep track of time in different time zones in US, eastern Europe, Russia and may be India.

Trying to keep track of time by doing mental conversion can get to be highly confusing. Instead this application gives the user a means to create as many clocks as are required and set them to different time zones to keep track of local time at all these places.

As for the basic time synchronization, that is accomplished through atomic time servers available on the net. Thus the times maintained are always in sync and accurate. One can then set the time zone each clock is representing. These clock faces could be locked together to stay at one place or locked so that they can be moved as a group. There are several other options such as if the clock face should remain always on top of all other windows and so on.

There are several options about the clock face skins. One could choose from the given collection, download a range of wallpaper skins or download a range of clock faces contributed by users or create one of your own. Most known clock faces can be replicated as the skin engine has the tools to do that.

Cons: It would be really useful if each clock could be labeled as what time the specific clock face is displaying. It is likely you’d create a few clock faces once you get the hang of using this program. Remember though that it takes quite a bit of CPU time to maintain these clocks and could be quite a drag if you have 3 or more clocks running at a time.

Overall rating for this application is 4 stars.

PerfectClock is a skinnable, flexible, fast and highly customizable program displaying an unlimited number of World-Time clocks on your desktop.
PerfectClock keeps you in time across as many time zones as you wish. No more wasting your time working out the local time anywhere in the world - each clock can show any time zone you require.
An unlimited number of Alarms & Reminders will help ensure that you do not miss anything important in your life. Alarms can show a message and/or play sound. Alarms can be customised to a high level, try it and see!
Render Labels feature will help keep your clocks in order. Just add "London", "Chicago", "New York" or any text labels to the corresponding clock. Font, position, color, transparency, shadow and more, all customisable to meet your requirements. Labels can be placed even bellow or above clock face.
Post-processing feature allow you to customize any clock Hue, Saturation, Brightness & Contrast. You can chage ANY skin color scheme as you wish. New Render Reflection feature makes clock even more realistic...
Atomic Time Clock Synchronization - PerfectClock can keep your computer time accurate using public SNTP servers. You can adjust synchronization options or disable this feature.
Perfect Usability - PerfectClock provides you a number of features which make program usage easy and pleasant. An unique "Force Stay On Top" feature forces Clocks for be on top of Screen Saver and Task Manager. Wallpaper Clock is visible even if Windows is locked. Read more about Clock Helpers.
Multilingual User Interface - PerfectClock is currently translated to English (American & Great Britain), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Brazilian Portuguese, Arabic, Belarusian and Russian languages.