# Clocks

Clocks are used to measure simulation time within a program. Both analog and digital varieties of clocks are available. By selecting the clock and using the “Edit/Properties” option you can change its various attributes including axis scaling parameters as well as whether or not to display hours, minutes and seconds. The color and fill style of Individual components (including face, title, and border) can be changed by selecting them and using the style or color palettes. The detail dialog for a clock contains the following:

Library Name – The name of the object within the current graphics library.

Title – Text of title displayed on bottom.

Interval – (Analog clock only) Distance between tic marks around the face.

Num interval – (Analog clock only) Distance between numbers around the face.

Max hours – The maximum number of hours the clock (shown at the top of the face) that the clock is capable of showing (generally 12). As this value is exceeded, the time display will start over from 0:00:00.

Show hours, Show minutes, Show seconds – You can control displaying the hour, minute and second hands with these options.

Hours per day – Currently, this parameter has no effect on the layout of the clock. It is only used within the application program.

Minutes per hour – Defines the time interval before the “hours” are incremented by one.

Seconds per minute – Defines the time interval before “minutes” are incremented.

Show borders – (Analog clock only) Determines whether to put borders around the legend, title, and plot of a pie chart.

See Also

Selecting, Moving, and Resizing the Graph

Style, and Color Palettes for the Graph Editor