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I created a Fitbit clock face in TypeScript

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  return `Viertel vor ${nextHour}`;

There is a mistake right there! This should read

  return `Dreiviertel ${nextHour}`;

(Not "a quarter before 3", but "three-quarters of 3").

https://i.stack.imgur.com/fNkDo.jpg

That may be a regional thing. I hear "viertel vor" far more often.

Was meant as a joke, this is a very controversial subjects in the German speaking world :)

Thanks for the explanation! I enjoy reading about idiosyncracies like this.

My love for the German People is adequadely illustrated by the fact that this is, I quote, "a very controversial subject".

Taking to account that I am an A1 German speaker (cretaed this app for me in the first place) it was tricky to find out what's right.

A friend of mine told me that his father would say "zwei vor Dreiviertel drei" for 2:43 :)

But in the end I just folloved the rules from my A1 book.

Nice, will check this out. I'm also currently developing a clockface for Fitbit OS but I did not go with Typescript but Ive been wanting an excuse to start using it so I might rewrite what I've done in Typescript.

I also just want to say that the whole developer experience working on a Fitbit OS clockface or app has been very nice and easy. Kudos to the Fitbit developers!

I come from typed world and TS makes a big difference for me. If you haven't tried it yet I would strongly suggest.

Fitbit also provides a types lib which makes it easier.

The only constraint I had is that there is no emulator for Linux and running on a real device doesn't always work.

Let me know once you implement your clock face. I would like to check how others do it.

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