The image on the right shows how the Binary Clock works.

The three columns represent hours, minutes and seconds.  In this example, one light in the hour column, 3 lights in the minutes column and 4 lights in the seconds column are on (orange).

In order to tell the time you must total up the value of all the lights in a particular column that are on.  The value of the lowest light is 1, and after this they are 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32.

• The hours column has number 2 lit which gives a total of 2
• The minutes column has 1, 4 and 8 lit which gives a total of 13
• The seconds column has 1, 2, 4 and 8 lit which gives a total of 15

So the time is 2:13 and 15 seconds.

You can download an installation package for ARM, MIPS or SH3 type processors.  To find out the type of processor you have on your Pocket PC, select Start > Settings > System > About and check the processor type field.  Simply download to your PC then follow the installation instructions below:

ARM installation (475 kb)
MIPS installation (625 kb)
SH3 installation (509 kb)

Before installing the Binary Clock ensure that your Pocket PC is placed in its cradle and that it is synchronised with the ActiveSync application on your PC.

Extract the contents of the downloaded zip file to a folder on your PC and when ready run the setup.exe file to install the program.  Follow any instructions that appear on your PDA then run the program from your Start menu.