PrintMyDays vs TrueOffset

This little Gregorian-based calendar app promises to bring all your far-flung "Calendars" (Cloud, local, subscribed) together in the form of a color-coded, hard-copy, monthly calendar. Before we start, a word about those first five ScreenShots in the Preview section shown above. Well, they're not ScreenShots, but rather "PrinterShots" – thumbnail images of a calendar "scrunched-down" to the size requirement of a ScreenShot so as to be depicted here on the App Store. Yes, they look somewhat out-of-sorts here, but on your printer or sent as a PDF, they will look "fabulous". The remaining five ScreenShots are directly from the app. So, let's get started. Meet the Anderson family (and their Calendar colors) - Mom (orange), Dad (green), son Blu (blue) and daughter Vi (violet). Mom, the family “calendar-master”, previews her Calendar together with the Calendars for Dad, Blu and Violet (#1, above). Nice. Wait, what? Grandma (brown), who lives in Fresno, is coming for a visit? Probably to keep an eye on grandson Blu while Mom and Dad are busy recreating (golf and tennis camps). The calendar gets crowded on a couple of Wednesdays (#2, above). Mom needs more "real-estate" in the calendar. So, what can be done? Mom knows what to do. Mom will bifurcate the calendar. Wait, what? bi·fur·cate - "to cause to divide into two branches or parts" - Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Mom uses the Date Range feature of the app to render days 1-15 (#3, above with "shrink" option shown), then renders days 16-30 (#4, above with "hide" option shown) on the flip-side. Mission accomplished. Also available is a columnar calendar style (#5, above). Three font sizes are available for calendar event titles. A customized calendar title and a calendar note field are also available. Also available, the ability to "shrink" or "hide" parts of the calendar. What paper sizes are supported, you might ask? USLetter? Of course. A4? Yes. Legal? That too. PDF is supported. You select the size with the full dimensions becoming the imageable area. If a PDF "meets-up" with a printer somewhere down the line, just use "fit-to-page" or "scale" to avoid clipping on the margins. So, what this app did for the Andersons it can do for you. It's free to try - your Calendars, your events, your printer. And the app produces a PDF that you can AirDrop, Email, etc. If it looks good, a nominal IAP (Tier One) will get you on your way. AND, this little iOS app will run just fine on your big silicon macOS device!

TrueOffset measures how far your iPhone or iPad's clock is from the world's time servers, and which way. Compare Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers with one another, see how far apart they are, and set any of them as your reference. FIVE CLOCK FACES - 12-Hour Classic — Traditional analog display - 24-Hour Scientific — Full day on one dial - NTP Offset — Dual second hands show device vs. true time - Digital — Large display with millisecond precision - Time Code — A radio time code spelled out second by second UTC & TAI TIME SCALES Show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and International Atomic Time (TAI), 37 seconds ahead of it, beside your local time, with deadbeat second hands that step on each second. TIME SIGNALS Hear the true second. Optional pips are timed against your NTP reference, so the start of each one marks the real second, not your device's idea of it. Choose from the classic broadcast signals, synthesized to their published pitch and timing: Six Pips (Greenwich Time Signal), WWV, WWVH, CHU, Jihō, Moscow Six Pips, and Australia's VNG. Sound them on the hour, every 15 minutes, or every minute. Bluetooth or AirPlay speaker running late? Measure its delay with the microphone and TrueOffset compensates. RADIO TIME CODES A clock sold as "atomic" is a radio listening to a distant station that spells out the time one second at a time. TrueOffset plays the codes of WWVB, DCF77, MSF, JJY (40 and 60 kHz), and BPC and shows each second being decoded as it is sent. Try setting a radio-controlled watch with it (beta), or switch on the DCF77 weather seconds to hear how Germany's station once sent a forecast. TRUEOFFSET MASTER CLOCK Our tribute to the U.S. Naval Observatory's telephone time service. A tick sounds every second while a voice announces your local time and then Universal Time, each ahead of a beep that lands on the true second. Prefer it quiet? Switch the voice off and keep the ticks. TrueOffset is not affiliated with the U.S. Naval Observatory. DUAL-STACK COMPARISON Ask one server over IPv4 and IPv6 side by side, to catch two different machines behind one name or a network that answers for both. FLEXIBLE TIME SOURCES Compare against Apple, Google, Cloudflare, NIST, US Naval Observatory, global NTP pools, or add your own servers. The default reference, ntp.trueoffset.app, is a Safran SecureSync 1200 with its own rubidium atomic clock. Set any source as your reference. QUALITY ANALYTICS Eight chart pages show the character of your time sources: - Overview — Every server at a glance - Offset History — Track drift over time - Offset Histogram — How the offsets are spread - Offset Range — Compare consistency across servers - Round Trip and Offset — See whether network delay moves the offset - Clock Sources — Decode reference clocks (GPS, PPS, Rubidium, Cesium) - IPv4 and IPv6 — Compare one server's two addresses - Rankings — Servers scored by jitter and round-trip time, with the steadiest named HELP IN THE APP What an offset is, why your clock drifts, what UTC and atomic time are, and what each screen shows, explained in the app. For anyone who cares how accurate their time really is, and wants to see the difference, not just trust it. Also on Apple TV. FOR TIMEKEEPERS: TRUEOFFSET FOR MAC Run your own time servers? The Mac app, free in this same listing, reads what they record about themselves and charts it, from six hours to a year: - NTPsec, ntpd, chrony, linuxptp, gpsd, Safran SecureSync, and Timebeat - Logs from a folder, or collected over SSH every hour, read-only - Offset, frequency, Allan deviation, temperature, peers, PTP, GNSS sky plots, and each machine's real-time clocks - Restarts, steps, and holdover found and marked, not averaged in - Your servers compared side by side as a fleet More at trueoffset.app/timekeepers --- In appreciation of Emerald Sequoia's Emerald Time.