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Ayurveda Sundial app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 3952 ratings )
Lifestyle Health & Fitness
Developer: Michael Arntz
1.99 USD
Current version: 1.2.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 24 May 2012
App size: 14.89 Mb

The Ayurveda Sundial is a chronograph with either two numeric or two graphically depicted time dials that simultaneously show the solar time (local apparent time) and time zone time (»normal« time). For this, 24- but also 12-hour dials are used. Sun cycles and ayurvedic dosha cycles as well as conventional time can be read within one display.

Using this new relational depiction, an extended type of viewing time has been developed, which may balance some of the deficits of time zone time.

Generally, the app is designed for iPod Touch and iPhone. and therefore using it on iPad may NOT be very satisfactory. A iPad version is planned


WELCOME TO REALTIME
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The sun influences our internal clock. If I want to stay healthy, I should at least pay attention to it – since our »normal« time can deviate from factual time immensely:

Mornings up to ca. 5 hours; Midday up to ca. 3 hours; Evenings up to ca. 5 hours

In western Europe, deviations in summer could be as follows: Morning: ca. ±0 hours, Midday: ca. 2 hours, Evening: ca. 4 hours. Astonishing – but thats what happens when a rigid system (time zone time) meets a very dynamic (solar time). Considering these values, every time-based therapy, science or lifestyle comes under question.



FEATURES
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• 6 display layouts
• Twilights phases
• GPS tracking
• Position determination over integrated online search
• File system for 4 location settings
• Time zone selection with zone map
• 3 local notification options
• And more


REQUIREMENTS
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• iPod Touch (4th Generation +)
• iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, iPhone 5
• iOS 6.1 and higher
• GPS recommended (alternative: position input via WLAN or manually)
• Internet connection recommended (alternative: GPS or manually position input)


LANGUAGES
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German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian.


APPLICATION LIMITATIONS
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The software is not applicable north of the +65th latitude (polar region) or south of the –65th latitude (polar region).
Currently the alarm does not work in Background-Mode (thx apple).


PRECISION
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The sundial has an exponential tolerance of ca. ±0.5 minutes up to ca ± 5 minutes. That means, the closer you get to the polar circle, the greater is the increase of deviation. Inside polar regions calculations are partially not possible. Especially in periods of polar night/day.


PRECISION RELEVANCE
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The aberrations have NO relevance for the practical applicability of the sundial (excepting polar regions), because:
• Time deviations (time zone time vs. solar time) of several hours are normal
• The mathematical horizon seldom correspond to the effective horizon height
• The Ayurveda Sundial can not display tolerances in the scale of such small values