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The original is a marginally useful view of the clock. This is a gif file that breaks whatever usefulness was in the original. Why is it posted? And why is it on the frontpage?

Isn't this less useful than the original?

Yes. Yes, it is.

It's for in case you couldn't have guessed that it would move in a circle I suppose...

Looks like Randall generated images for every quarter hour of the day:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/now/13h15m.png

I hope he didn't have to do it by hand…

Randall, are you stalking me? I posted about this a few days ago: http://ferkeltongs.livejournal.com/36976.html

Gfycat version. I think it looks better and you can pause, change size and so on. http://gfycat.com/VastPopularIberianchiffchaff

thanks, I embedded the gfycat version

Adding a start and stop button would make this much more useful.

agreed. Thanks to gfycat this is done now.

My OCD is flickering. XKCD, right?

yes. right.

XKCD now. Animated