Omarchy World Clock

A keyboard-friendly world clock for the Omarchy Quattro bar. Track multiple locations, plan with the time slider, and compare local times using digital or analog clocks.

It works alongside the built-in omarchy.clock; it does not replace it.

Published here: https://omarchyplugins.com/plugin.html?id=io.github.ptgamr.world-clock

Features

• Keep track of multiple clocks around the world
• Choose between analog and digital clocks
• Plan across dates and times with the calendar and time slider
• Add, rename, remove, reorder, and choose your Home clock
• Use the entire panel with the keyboard or mouse
• Choose between 12- and 24-hour time

Requirements

• Omarchy 4 / Quattro
• Python 3.9 or newer with zoneinfo
• Installed system timezone data (tzdata on Arch Linux)

The plugin runs helpers/timezone.py locally with fixed argument arrays. It does not use the network, install a system service, request privileges, or invoke a shell.

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/ptgamr/oma-world-clock.git --enable

The widget defaults to the right bar section, leaving the normal Omarchy clock available in the center. Move it at any time with:

omarchy bar move io.github.ptgamr.world-clock --section right

Remove

omarchy plugin remove io.github.ptgamr.world-clock

World Clock reads and writes only its own plugin entry. It does not modify settings or files belonging to omarchy.clock.

First run

On first run, World Clock detects the machine's IANA timezone, places it first as Home, and adds two representative clocks from other regions:

• Asia home: Berlin and New York
• Europe home: Ho Chi Minh City and New York
• Americas home: Berlin and Ho Chi Minh City
• Africa home: Berlin and Ho Chi Minh City
• Oceania home: Ho Chi Minh City and New York
• UTC or an unclassified timezone: Berlin and Ho Chi Minh City

The detected clocks are saved as normal configuration. Detection runs only once and never replaces locations the user has already configured.

Use

Only the clock list scrolls. The calendar and World Clock header remain fixed at the top, while the time slider and keyboard guide remain fixed at the bottom. Moving away from Now replaces the guide with the selected Home date, time, and offset, plus a muted T now reminder.

Clock rows can also be dragged to reorder them. Drag or scroll the slider to move continuously in 15-minute steps, and right-click it to return to Now.

In Settings, use j / k to choose an option, Left / Right to change it, and Enter or Space to apply it. A toggles analog clocks; 1 and 2 select the 12- and 24-hour formats directly.

Configuration

Locations and appearance settings are stored in this widget's entry in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json:

World Clock accepts up to 12 locations. Location IDs are limited to 64 characters, display names to 80 characters, and IANA timezone names to 128 characters before any timezone helper is started.

{
  "id": "io.github.ptgamr.world-clock",
  "configVersion": 1,
  "showAnalogClock": true,
  "hourFormat": "12",
  "locations": [
    {
      "id": "home",
      "name": "Ho Chi Minh City",
      "timezone": "Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh",
      "isHome": true,
      "latitude": 10.8231,
      "longitude": 106.6297
    },
    {
      "id": "berlin",
      "name": "Berlin",
      "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
      "isHome": false,
      "latitude": 52.52,
      "longitude": 13.405
    },
    {
      "id": "new-york",
      "name": "New York",
      "timezone": "America/New_York",
      "isHome": false,
      "latitude": 40.7128,
      "longitude": -74.006
    }
  ]
}

Roadmap

• Compact world-clock panel
• Smart first-run defaults across three regions
• Keyboard-first clock management and Settings
• Fixed calendar, scrollable clocks, and fixed time controls
• Meeting planner full view
  • Resizable shared-state window prototype
  • Horizontal 24-hour timezone timeline prototype
  • Meeting-time selection and copy action prototype
  • World map, city markers, and timezone-boundary prototype
  • Finish the full-view UX and expose it from the compact release UI

The full-view implementation remains in the repository for development, but it is intentionally hidden from the compact release UI until the remaining polish and accessibility work is complete.

Validate

omarchy plugin validate .
qmllint -I /usr/share/omarchy/shell BarWidget.qml Panel.qml FullView.qml components/*.qml
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py'
node tests/model-test.js
node tests/timezone-lookup-test.js

Data and license

World Clock is released under the MIT License.

The coastline asset comes from public-domain Natural Earth data. The compact timezone lookup is derived from timezone-boundary-builder release 2026c under the Open Database License 1.0. Source, checksums, attribution, and regeneration details are documented in assets/TIMEZONE_BOUNDARIES.md and assets/NATURAL_EARTH.md.