DuskDial

What's new

Every change to DuskDial that a visitor could see, newest first, dated to the day it went live. Fixes nobody could notice are left out. If something here does not match the site, the contact page says how to say so.

  • DuskDial opened: bedtimes counted back from an alarm in whole sleep cycles, with the cycle length and the time to fall asleep printed on every page and yours to change.
  • A page for each common alarm from 4:00 to 8:00 am and for two afternoon alarms after night shifts, each with when that alarm and its bedtimes fall in daylight and what the clock-change nights do to it.
  • The travel planner, which moves a bedtime across time zones before you fly or after you land, with a page for each of 42 routes giving its January and July gap, 10 of them with a written account of how the gap moves through the year.
  • Shift work: a rota planner for any run of day shifts, night shifts and days off, with 6 named patterns to start from, commute and the switch days included, and the sleep downloadable as a calendar file; and a page for each of five single shifts saying when its hours fall in daylight across the year and what the clock-change nights do to it.
  • Naps, each length set against the break rules in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States; the sleep-now count; the week's tally; and three tools: a two-way alarm, a screen cutoff and a world clock.
  • A clock-change planner for 14 March 2027 in the United States and 28 March 2027 in the United Kingdom and the European Union, and a notebook, kept on your device, that fits a cycle length from 70 to 120 minutes to your own mornings.
  • A link beside each calculator that carries its settings, so a bookmark or a link you send reopens it the way you left it; a nightly calendar file from the wake pages and the bedtime alarm; and an offline copy, kept on your device only when you ask for it, so the main pages open with no connection.
  • Reference pages on where the ninety minutes came from, the fifteen minutes before sleep, and what the site cannot know.
  • About, contact, privacy, cookies, terms, the disclaimer and the accessibility statement.