Hex color clock

Why this clock exists

The first W3C CSS Recommendation, published in 1996, defined six-digit hexadecimal color as three pairs for red, green, and blue. This clock borrows that web convention and feeds it the digits of local time. The result is mathematically tidy but visually unruly: a timestamp becomes weather for the page. Numbers still identify the instant, while color lets the same data arrive as atmosphere.