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World Clock Deluxe Changelog

What's new in World Clock Deluxe 4.19.1

Oct 30, 2023
  • The incompatibilities with macOS 14 Sonoma have been solved.
  • The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of Nuuk and Qaanaaq have been updated after Western Greenland changed time zone. At 11:00 PM on October 28, 2023, Western Greenland Time (WGT) and Western Greenland Summer Time (WGST) moved from UTC-3 to UTC-2 and from UTC-2 to UTC-1, respectively.
  • Daylight-saving time for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. Next year, Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western Europe Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western Europe Time (UTC) during Ramadan, presumably from March 10 to April 14, 2024.
  • Some other minor fixes and improvements have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.19 (Oct 28, 2022)

  • The incompatibilities with macOS 13 Ventura have been solved.
  • The Meeting Planner can now display up to 72 hours starting from the specified date. By default, the Meeting Planner shows 24 hours, but you can choose a longer time range (36, 48, or 72 hours) from the Span submenu of the Action pop-up menu at the bottom of the table.
  • The Meeting Planner can now show date separators, horizontal lines marking the last time slot of each day. By default, date separators are visible. To hide them, deselect the Date Separators item in the Show submenu of the Action pop-up menu at the bottom of the table.
  • Clock times can now be copied to the Clipboard. To copy a time, display the Clocks palette pop-up menu or the World Clock Deluxe status menu, select a clock, and choose the time from its Copy Time submenu. The Copy Time format can be changed by pressing modifier keys while showing the submenu: you can use 12-hour or 24-hour time and add seconds, date, time zone, and city.
  • A bug, that caused clocks not to be immediately updated when the “Light text on dark background” option was toggled from the Clocks palette, has been fixed.
  • The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Iran, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria has been updated. Fiji will not switch to daylight-saving time this November. From 2023, Iran will no longer observe DST. Daylight-saving time in Palestine will end one day later this year, at 2:00 AM on Saturday, October 29, 2022. Jordan and Syria abolished the switch to standard time and will observe daylight-saving time all year round.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.18.1 (Jan 27, 2022)

  • The “Automatically set current date” option has been added to the Meeting Planner. If selected, the Meeting Planner will automatically show the current date when you open it for the first time after having launched World Clock Deluxe. To select the option, click the Options button in the Meeting Planner.
  • Button icons in the Time Converter and Meeting Planner panes and the World Clock Deluxe icon in the menu bar have been revised on macOS 10.15 or earlier and now match the icons used on macOS 11 and 12.
  • An incompatibility of the show/hide palette keyboard shortcut with the Romaji input mode has been solved.
  • A bug, introduced in version 4.16, that could cause colors in the UTC column of the Meeting Planner to be incorrect on macOS 10.13 or earlier has been fixed.
  • A bug, introduced in version 4.17, causing the Save Reports and Delete Reports buttons to be initially disabled in the Weather Reports window on macOS 10.15 or earlier until new weather reports are downloaded has been fixed.
  • Some other minor fixes and improvements have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.18 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • World Clock Deluxe is now ready for macOS 12 Monterey.
  • The display and editing of the show/hide palette keyboard shortcut now work correctly with non-Latin input sources: when a non-Latin input source is selected, the key combination displayed in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe preferences now uses the last used Latin input source and when the show/hide palette keyboard shortcut is edited, World Clock Deluxe automatically switches to the last used Latin input source.
  • The anchor palette and lock anchor key combinations are now always Command-A and Command-L respectively, no matter whether a Latin or non-Latin input source is selected.
  • On macOS 11 or later, the color of the World Clock Deluxe icon or clock in the menu bar, when selected, has been corrected and is now black in case of light desktop pictures.
  • The World Clock Deluxe Help has been revised and is now better searchable.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, and Western Sahara has been updated. Fiji will not switch to daylight-saving time this November. From 2022, DST in Jordan will start one month early, at midnight on the last Thursday in February. Daylight-saving time in Palestine will end at 1:00 AM on Friday, October 29, 2021. Next year, Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western European Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western European Time (UTC) during Ramadan, presumably from March 27 to May 8, 2022.
  • Some other minor improvements have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.17.1 (Dec 22, 2020)

  • World Clock Deluxe is now Universal and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel-based Macs.
  • The default palette font size has been increased.
  • On macOS 11.0, a bug that caused the old status item icon to be displayed when clocks stopped to rotate in the menu bar has been fixed.
  • A bug, introduced in version 4.17, that caused the N/S button in the English Add/Edit City dialog not to toggle has been fixed.
  • A bug, introduced in version 4.17, that could cause the hidden Dock to appear when World Clock Deluxe was opened on macOS 11.0 and World Clock Deluxe not to be activated at launch on macOS 10.14 or earlier, has been fixed.
  • Some other minor bugs have been fixed.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.17 (Nov 14, 2020)

  • World Clock Deluxe has adopted the new look of macOS. On Big Sur, windows and toolbars have been revised, lists have been made more spacious, and symbol images have been introduced.
  • The Clocks palette has a new translucent background and new controls and supports Dark Mode.
  • An incompatibility with Catalina that caused the World Clock Deluxe menu bar not to respond to mouse clicks at startup until the application was deactivated and reactivated has been solved.
  • The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Iran, Morocco, Palestine, and Western Sahara has been updated. Fiji will observe DST from December 20, 2020 to January 17, 2021. Daylight-saving time in Palestine ended one week earlier this year, at 1:00 AM on Saturday, October 24, 2020. Iran will observe DST from March 22 to September 22 in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Next year Morocco and Western Sahara will switch from Western European Summer Time (UTC+1) to Western European Time (UTC) during Ramadan, presumably from April 11 to May 16, 2021.
  • Some other minor improvements have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.16.2 (Oct 8, 2019)

  • The incompatibilities with macOS 10.15 Catalina have been solved.
  • The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Fiji and Norfolk Island has been updated. Fiji will observe daylight-saving time from November 10, 2019 to January 12, 2020. Norfolk Island introduced daylight-saving time following the Australian rule.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.16.1 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • An incompatibility with the latest macOS releases that could cause World Clock Deluxe to crash at launch if the Dock icon was hidden has been solved.
  • Some other minor incompatibilities and bugs have been fixed.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.16 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • On macOS 10.14 Mojave, support for Dark Mode has been introduced.
  • Support for Retina displays has been introduced.
  • Some other minor interface improvements and revisions have been introduced.
  • On macOS 10.12 or later, a bug that caused World Clock Deluxe to stop responding when its status item was dragged out of the menu bar, was then added again, and all clocks were hidden has been fixed.
  • The offset from UTC of Volgograd, Russia has been updated. The Volgograd Oblast moved from UTC+3 to UTC+4 at 2:00 AM on October 28, 2018.
  • The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of Morocco and Western Sahara have been updated. Both countries canceled DST and moved from Western European Time (UTC) to Central European Time (UTC+1) at 3:00 AM on October 28, 2018.
  • The offset from UTC of the Antarctic stations Casey and Concordia has been updated. Both stations moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Chile and Fiji has been updated. From 2019, Chile (excluding the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica that have DST all year round) will observe daylight-saving time from midnight on the first Saturday in September to midnight on the first Saturday in April. Next year, Fiji will end daylight-saving time on January 13, 2019.
  • Minimum required system version is now macOS 10.11.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.15.4 (Sep 26, 2017)

  • World Clock Deluxe is now ready for macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
  • The offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information of Namibia have been updated. Namibia canceled DST and at 2:00 AM on September 3, 2017, when daylight-saving time would have started, moved from West Africa Time (UTC+1) to Central Africa Time (UTC+2).
  • Daylight-saving time information for Fiji has been updated. Fiji will end daylight-saving time on January 14, 2018.
  • The Look Up Weather Station Indicator command has been restored. Weather station indicators can now be looked up on the Aviation Codes Central web site.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.15.3 (Sep 30, 2016)

  • The incompatibilities with macOS 10.12 Sierra have been solved.
  • The possibility to retrieve weather reports has been re-introduced after NOAA terminated the weather.noaa.gov web service.
  • On OS X 10.10 or later, a bug that could cause long cities/time zones/texts to be unnecessarily truncated in the Dock has been fixed.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Turkey has been updated. Turkey abolished the switch to standard time and will observe daylight-saving time all year round.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.15.2 (Feb 26, 2016)

  • For improved security, World Clock Deluxe now uses encrypted HTTPS connections when checking for updates and automatically downloading and installing updates of cities, time zones, and DST rules.
  • Daylight-saving time information for the Cayman Islands, Iran, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. The Cayman Islands will not introduce daylight-saving time in 2016. Iran will observe DST from March 21 to September 21 this year. Morocco and Western Sahara will suspend daylight-saving time during Ramadan, presumably from June 4 to July 9, 2016.
  • Two time zones have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New time zones are Choibalsan Time (CHOT) and Choibalsan Summer Time (CHOST).
  • Time zone abbreviations have been revised and a few changes have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.15.1 (Sep 30, 2015)

  • The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan have been solved.
  • On El Capitan, conversion results and meeting details can now be saved to a note or added to a reminder by clicking the Share button.
  • Conversion results and meeting details can now be copied to the Clipboard by choosing Copy Conversion/Copy Meeting Details from the Edit menu or using the Command-C keyboard shortcut.
  • The system font is now the default font of the Clocks palette on all system versions, including Mac OS X 10.9 or later.
  • The font of the Clocks palette and the Font pop-up menu in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences are now updated when fonts are disabled or enabled using Font Book.
  • A bug, introduced in version 4.15, that affected the "Slide horizontally" and "Slide vertically" transition effects of the Clocks palette has been fixed.
  • Several other minor improvements have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.15 (Feb 12, 2015)

  • World Clock Deluxe is now 64-bit compatible.
  • The World Clock Deluxe menu bar item has been fully revised and has now a fixed width when clocks rotate. If you prefer that the width of the menu bar item varies when clocks rotate, deselect the "Fixed width clocks" checkbox in the Menu Bar pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
  • A bug that caused changes to the style and format of clocks in the menu bar to be ignored if they were made when all clocks were hidden in the menu bar has been fixed.
  • The incompatibility of the anchor palette and lock anchor key combinations with Unicode keyboards has been solved.
  • Some other minor bugs and incompatibilities have been fixed.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.12.1 (Oct 21, 2014)

  • The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite have been solved.
  • The Meeting Planner lets you now select multiple time slots and include local start and end times and the duration of the meeting when copying, dragging, or sharing details.
  • The Meeting Planner lets you now copy, drag, or share past time slots.
  • Some minor incompatibilities of the date control with Mac OS X 10.9 or later have been fixed.
  • Some other minor bugs have been fixed and some minor improvements have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.12 (Apr 24, 2014)

  • Software update has been extensively revised, displays release notes, and lets you automatically download and install updates of cities, time zones, and DST rules.
  • Several enhancements have been added to the report displayed by World Clock Deluxe after updating cities, time zones, and DST rules. The report now tags used cities and time zones and lets you list them first and sort cities by country.
  • Buttons in the Time Converter and Meeting Planner panes have been revised. In addition to that, on Mac OS X 10.8 or later, you can now easily share conversions and meeting details via Mail and Messages.
  • The Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences lets you now specify any palette font size between 8 and 99.
  • An incompatibility with Mavericks that caused the default palette font (Lucida Grande) not to appear in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences has been solved.
  • Sevastopol, Crimea has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database and the offset from UTC of Simferopol has been updated after Crimea adopted Moscow Summer Time (UTC+4) on March 30, 2014.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Jordan, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. Fiji advanced the end of daylight-saving time to the first Sunday from January 19. Jordan, after having observed DST all year round in 2013, readopted its previous rule (midnight on the last Thursday in March to 1:00 AM on the last Friday in October). This year, Morocco and Western Sahara will suspend daylight-saving time from June 29 to July 29 for the Ramadan.
  • Some other minor interface revisions have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.11.3 (Nov 26, 2013)

  • The "Hide World Clock Deluxe icon in the Dock" preference is saved now and new World Clock Deluxe versions will automatically hide the icon in the Dock when they are launched for the first time after having been installed.
  • On Mac OS X 10.9, the icon in the Dock is now hidden or shown without restarting the World Clock Deluxe application.
  • The offset from UTC of Rio Branco in the Brazilian state of Acre has been changed from - 4 h to - 5 h after Brazil reintroduced its forth time zone (Acre Time, UTC-5) on November 10, 2013.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Libya has been updated. Libya didn't switch back to standard time and will remain on daylight-saving time until further notice.
  • The geographical coordinates of Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg, and Cape Town in South Africa and Sochi in Russia have been corrected.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.
  • 36 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
  • Botswana: Maun, Molepolole
  • Dem. Republic of the Congo: Bukavu, Goma, Matadi, Mbandaka
  • Egypt: Dahab
  • Kenya: Narok
  • Mali: Djenné
  • Morocco: Agadir, Essaouira
  • Mozambique: Bazaruto Archipelago
  • Namibia: Swakopmund
  • Nigeria: Enugu, Uyo, Zaria
  • Rwanda: Butare
  • Somalia: Bosaso
  • Somaliland: Berbera
  • South Africa: East London, Kimberley, Nelspruit, Phalaborwa, Polokwane, Prince Edward Islands, Thabazimbi, Upington, Vereeniging
  • South Sudan: Wau
  • Tanzania: Moshi
  • US Minor Outlying Islands: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.11.2 (Oct 25, 2013)

  • The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks have been solved.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Syria has been updated. Daylight-saving time in Syria ends on the last Friday in October.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.11.1 (Oct 4, 2013)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Morocco, Western Sahara, and the Brazilian State of Tocantins has been updated. Morocco and Western Sahara decided to extend daylight-saving time to October 27 and from next year will observe DST from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. Tocantins canceled daylight-saving time after a one-year trial.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.11 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • World Clock Deluxe now has a Meeting Planner pane that allows you to easily find the best time for an online chat, a conference call or videoconference across different time zones. To display the new pane, choose View > Meeting Planner.
  • The Meeting Planner is very easy to set up: after having picked a date from the calendar, you can quickly add two, three, or more cities, specify your home city, replace or remove cities, and add frequently used cities to your Favorites.
  • The Meeting Planner is highly configurable: you can choose a color theme, specify the duration of time slots and when mornings, days, evenings, and nights start, and decide which information (Coordinated Universal Time, weekday, date change, UTC offset, time zone, daylight-saving time) should be displayed.
  • The Meeting Planner lets you copy the details of your meeting to the Clipboard so that you can email them to all participants. The Options dialog lets you specify if you want to copy rich or plain text, choose a text layout and date format, and determine which information must be included in the copied text.
  • World Clock Deluxe has a new black and white icon in the menu bar.
  • A bug that caused the Time Converter to display DST end times using daylight time zones instead of standard time zones has been fixed.
  • Daylight-saving time for Israel has been updated. Israel decided to further extend its daylight-saving time period: from this year, DST will end on the last Sunday in October.
  • Minimum required system version is now Mac OS X 10.6.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.10.1 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. This year, both countries will suspend daylight-saving time on July 7, two days before the beginning of Ramadan, and resume it on August 10, two days after the end of Ramadan.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.10 (May 7, 2013)

  • String representation of dates and times has been fully revised so that clocks support non-Gregorian calendars (10.6 or later) and formats using non-European scripts now.
  • The date and time controls in the Time Converter have been fully revised and now support non-Gregorian calendars (10.6 or later), eras, and formats using non-European scripts.
  • Custom date and time formats now support non-Gregorian calendars on 10.6 or later. In addition to that, the Before noon/After noon strings are no longer limited to 4 characters.
  • Clocks can now show full weekdays and medium or long dates. Weekdays now appear in the language of the region specified in the Region (Formats) pane of Language & Text Preferences.
  • While creating or editing clocks you can now see a clock preview.
  • You can now configure your local date in the Clocks palette pop-up menu, in the Dock icon menu, and in the World Clock Deluxe menu in the menu bar so that it shows short weekdays and the medium or long date. In addition to that, the Menus pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences now displays a preview of your local date and time.
  • Daylight-saving time transitions can now use medium, long, or full dates.
  • With the new "Apply to All Menus" button in the Menus pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences you can now quickly apply the same settings to the Clocks palette pop-up menu, the Dock icon menu, and the World Clock Deluxe menu in the menu bar.
  • Weather reports can now display medium, long, or full dates. In addition to that, the Weather pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences shows a preview of report dates and times.
  • You can now choose whether to use right-to-left date and time formats. Deselect the "Use right-to-left date and time formats" checkbox in the Advanced pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences if you want World Clock Deluxe to use a left-to-right date and time format instead of the Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Pashto, or Urdu date and time format specified in System Preferences.
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.9.2 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Cuba and Paraguay has been updated. This year, Cuba started DST on the second Sunday in March, while Paraguay will end daylight-saving time three weeks earlier, on March 24.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.9.1 (Feb 8, 2013)

  • 106 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,600 cities.
  • Daylight-saving information for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. Both countries will observe daylight-saving time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September with the exception of Ramadan (estimated start and end dates for Ramadan in 2013 are July 9 and August 7).

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.9 (Dec 21, 2012)

  • The Clocks, Cities & Time Zones, and Time Converter panes and their dialogs have been redesigned. Panes are now bigger, cleaner, easier to use, and resizable.
  • On Mac OS X 10.5 or later, the Time Converter lets you now specify dates by picking them from a calendar.
  • The Time Converter now provides more information about conversions: you can view the offset from UTC and the time zone abbreviation of the selected locations and you can see whether cities use daylight-saving time or not and if daylight-saving time is in effect, not in effect, or applied all year round. If daylight-saving time is used, a tooltip shows you when it starts and ends.
  • The Time Converter lets you now copy conversions to the Clipboard so that you can use them in other applications. The new Options dialog lets you specify if you want to copy rich or plain text, choose a text layout and date format, and determine which information must be included in the copied text.
  • The Time Converter lets you now automatically set the current date and time when you open the pane for the first time after having launched World Clock Deluxe. To automatically set the current date and time, click the Options button and select the "Automatically set current date and time" checkbox.
  • Icons in the toolbar of World Clock Deluxe Preferences have been revised and the Date & Time Formats pane has been redesigned.
  • The offset from UTC of Libya has been updated. Libya moved from UTC+2 to UTC+1 and from next year will observe daylight-saving time, starting on the last Friday in March and ending on the last Friday in October.
  • Daylight-saving time for Iran and Israel has been updated. In 2013, Iran will observe daylight-saving time from March 22 to September 22. From 2013, Israel will extend its daylight-saving time period: DST will start on Friday before the last Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday after October 1.
  • The World Clock Deluxe Help has been fully rewritten.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.8.3 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Jordan and the Brazilian States of Bahia and Tocantins has been updated. This year, Jordan didn't switch back to standard time and will remain on daylight-saving time at least until October 2013. Tocantins reintroduced DST, while Bahia canceled it after a one-year trial.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.8.2 (Oct 8, 2012)

  • Regularly work with people across the world? Have family or friends living in other countries or time zones? Often travel abroad? World Clock Deluxe will make your life much easier.
  • With World Clock Deluxe you can:
  • display multiple digital or analog clocks in a horizontal or vertical palette, in the menu bar and in the Dock;
  • show the time in over 1,500 cities and 200 time zones and world times (Coordinated Universal Time, Internet Time);
  • show seconds, weekday, date, date change, time zone and the offset from local time or UTC;
  • show daylight-saving time transitions;
  • customize date and time formats and assign labels and colors to clocks;
  • keep clocks arranged alphabetically, by time, longitude, longitude offset and label;
  • edit cities and time zones and add new cities and time zones;
  • calculate date and time conversions between different cities and time zones;
  • show the current weather all over the world.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.8.1 (Jul 20, 2012)

  • The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion have been solved.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Morocco and Western Sahara has been updated. Both countries will resume daylight-saving time on August 20 after Ramadan.
  • A bug that could cause World Clock Deluxe not to show a city in the local time zone when running for the first time has been fixed.
  • Some other minor bugs have been fixed.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.8 (Apr 20, 2012)

  • 73 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,500 cities.
  • Cities can now have two daylight-saving time periods in the same year. There are countries, in fact, that suspend daylight-saving time during Ramadan and then resume it.
  • Daylight-saving information for the Gaza Strip, Morocco, Syria, the West Bank, and Western Sahara has been updated. From this year, Morocco and Western Sahara will observe daylight-saving time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September with the exception of Ramadan (estimated start and end dates for Ramadan in 2012 are July 20 and August 18). Syria anticipated the start of DST from the first Friday in April to the last Friday in March. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank started daylight-saving time together this year, both at midnight on the last Thursday in March.
  • The geographical coordinates of Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe have been corrected, the dissolved Netherlands Antilles have been replaced by Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands, and the Beerenberg volcano in Jan Mayen has been replaced by the Olonkinbyen settlement.
  • Some minor memory leaks have been eliminated, some minor bugs have been solved, and some minor interface improvements and fixes have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.11 (Mar 23, 2012)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Haiti has been updated. After 2005 and 2006, Haiti trials daylight-saving time again in 2012, using the same rule as the United States and Canada (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November).
  • A minor interface bug in the Italian Clocks pane has been fixed.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.10 (Mar 8, 2012)

  • 20 United States cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
  • California - Barstow, El Segundo, Lompoc, Rosamond, Twentynine Palms
  • Florida - Cape Canaveral
  • Hawaii - Hilo, Kailua-Kona, Kihei, Lihue, Pearl City
  • Kansas - Junction City
  • Louisiana - Leesville
  • Mississippi - Hattiesburg
  • New Hampshire - Nashua
  • New York - Watertown
  • North Carolina - Asheville, Jacksonville
  • Virginia - Quantico, Wallops Island
  • The offset from UTC of the Australian Antarctic stations Casey and Davis has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, Casey moved from UTC+11 to UTC+8, while Davis switched from UTC+5 to UTC+7.
  • Daylight-saving information for Armenia, Chile, Cuba, and the Falkland Islands has been updated. Armenia abolished daylight-saving time. Chile decided to extend DST by 7 weeks this year, with daylight-saving time ending on April 29 and starting again on September 2. Cuba postponed the start of DST from the third Sunday in March to the first Sunday in April. In 2012, the Falkland Islands will trial daylight-saving time all year round for the second time.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.9 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • 90 United States cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,400 cities. New cities are:
  • Arizona
  • Chandler, Tempe, Window Rock
  • California
  • Burbank, Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Concord, Fairfield, Fontana, Fremont, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Glendale, Hayward, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Lancaster, Modesto, Moreno Valley, Oakland, Ontario, Oxnard, Palmdale, Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santa Clarita, Santa Rosa, Stanford, Sunnyvale, Temecula, Thousand Oaks, Torrance, Vallejo, Visalia, West Covina
  • Colorado
  • Fort Collins
  • Connecticut
  • Stamford
  • Florida
  • Gainesville, Hialeah
  • Georgia
  • Athens, Augusta, Columbus
  • Illinois
  • Evanston, Naperville, Peoria
  • Indiana
  • Evansville, South Bend
  • Kansas
  • Olathe
  • Louisiana
  • Lafayette
  • Massachusetts
  • Springfield
  • Michigan
  • Warren
  • Minnesota
  • Rochester
  • Missouri
  • Independence, Springfield
  • New Hampshire
  • Hanover
  • New Jersey
  • Elizabeth, Princeton
  • New York
  • Ithaca, Yonkers
  • North Carolina
  • Cary, Durham, Fayetteville, High Point, Wilmington, Winston-Salem
  • Ohio
  • Akron
  • Oklahoma
  • Norman
  • Pennsylvania
  • Allentown, Erie
  • Tennessee
  • Chattanooga, Clarksville
  • Texas
  • Beaumont, Denton, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Lubbock, McAllen, Midland, Pasadena, Plano
  • Virginia
  • Arlington, Chesapeake, Newport News
  • Washington
  • Bellevue, Everett, Tacoma
  • The offset from UTC of Samoa and Tokelau has been updated. At midnight on December 29, 2011, Samoa (which is currently observing daylight-saving time) and Tokelau jumped from east to west of the international dateline to align with trade partners, moving from UTC-10 to UTC+14.
  • The offset from UTC of the Australian Antarctic stations Casey and Davis has been updated. To comport with operational schedules from their supply bases, Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5, while Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11.
  • Daylight-saving information for Brazil, Iran, Israel, and Samoa has been updated. Due to Carnival, DST in Brazil will end one week later this year, on the fourth Sunday in February. In 2012, Iran will observe daylight-saving time from March 21 to September 21, while Israel will observe daylight-saving time from March 30 to September 23. From this year, DST in Samoa will end on the first Sunday in April.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.8 (Nov 4, 2011)

  • 24 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
  • Xiamen
  • Durgapur
  • Bandar Abbas
  • Chiba, Fukushima, Hamamatsu, Niigata, Okayama, Sagamihara, Sakai, Shizuoka
  • Benin City
  • Kurilsk, Magnitogorsk, Severo-Kurilsk, Sochi, Surgut, Yuzhno-Kurilsk
  • Entebbe
  • Truro
  • Atlantic City, NJ
  • Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah
  • Daylight-saving information for Cuba, Fiji, Ukraine, and the Brazilian State of Bahia has been updated. Bahia reintroduced daylight-saving time this year, Cuba postponed the end of DST from October 30 to November 13, 2011, Fiji will anticipate the end of DST from February 26 to January 22, 2012, and Ukraine canceled its previous decision to permanently remain on daylight-saving time and switched back to standard time on October 30, 2011.
  • Two minor incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion have been solved. The position of the Clocks palette pop-up menus has been corrected and the desktop-level Clocks palette remains visible now when the desktop is shown with Mission Control.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.7 (Sep 23, 2011)

  • The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion have been solved.
  • The configuration of the show/hide palette keyboard shortcut has been revised so that Unicode keyboards and the F17, F18, F19 keys are now supported. In addition to that, shortcuts containing function keys, arrow keys, or keypad keys do not require modifiers anymore and keypad keys appear in square brackets [ ] in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
  • The offset from UTC of Ust-Nera and Kuril Islands, Russia has been updated after some districts of the Sakha Republic moved from Magadan Summer Time (UTC+12) to Vladivostok Summer Time (UTC+11) on August 31, 2011.
  • Daylight-saving time information for the Palestinian Territories, Samoa, Ukraine, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador has been updated. This year, the Gaza Strip anticipated the end of DST on August 1, before the beginning of Ramadan, while the West Bank suspended daylight-saving time during Ramadan and resumed it on August 30. Samoa will start DST one day earlier, on September 24, and Ukraine abolished the switch to standard time and will observe daylight-saving time all year round. The Newfoundland and Labrador province amended its DST legislation to start and end daylight-saving time at 2:00 AM in line with the rest of North America.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.
  • Minimum required system version is now Mac OS X 10.4.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.6 (Apr 22, 2011)

  • The standard UTC offset of Irkutsk, Russia has been reverted to UTC+8. It was planned that the Irkutsk region would move to Krasnoyarsk Time (UTC+7) on March 27, 2011, but the transistion has been postponed indefinitely.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Egypt and the Falkland Islands has been updated. Egypt abolished daylight-saving time, while the Falkland Islands did not switch back to standard time on April 17 and will trial daylight-saving time all year round in 2011.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.5 (Mar 31, 2011)

  • The offset from UTC of Irkutsk, Russia has been updated after the Irkutsk region moved from Irkutsk Time (UTC+8) to Krasnoyarsk Time (UTC+7) on March 27, 2011.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Belarus, Chile, the Gaza Strip, Morocco, Russia, Samoa, Turkey, the West Bank, and Western Sahara has been updated. Starting from March 27, 2011, Russia will observe daylight-saving time all year round and Belarus will probably do the same. This year, Morocco and Western Sahara will observe daylight-saving time from April 3 to July 31, while DST in Turkey started one day later, on March 28, due to a nationwide exam on March 27. To increase energy savings, Chile decided to further postpone the end of daylight-saving time to May 8. In addition to that, winter time in Chile will last less than 4 months this year with DST starting on the third Saturday in August. Daylight-saving time in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip will start on April 1 and 2, respectively and Samoa will anticipate the end of DST from April 3 to April 2.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.4 (Mar 8, 2011)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Chile and Cuba has been updated. This year, Chile has extended daylight-saving time (which was originally planned to end on March 13) to continue until April 3 to face water shortage in reservoirs and avoid a possible energy crisis. Cuba decided to postpone the start of DST from the second to the third Sunday in March.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.3 (Jan 11, 2011)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Fiji, Israel, Morocco, and Western Sahara has been updated. Fiji anticipated the end of daylight-saving time to the first Sunday in March. Israel will observe DST from April 1 to October 2 this year. Morocco and Western Sahara may not observe daylight-saving time in 2011.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.2 (Sep 1, 2010)

  • 22 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,300 cities.
  • New cities are:
  • France - Besançon, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Le Havre, Limoges, Metz, Nancy, Orléans, Rouen, Toulon, Tours
  • United Kingdom Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Coventry, Kingston upon Hull, Leicester, Nottingham, Oxford, York
  • Daylight-saving information for Egypt, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank has been updated. Egypt has suspended DST during Ramadan and will resume it from September 10 to October 1. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank anticipated the end of daylight-saving time to August 11.
  • On Mac OS X 10.6, the lowest palette level is now Desktop icons so that the Clocks palette doesn't stop receiving mouse clicks after the Finder is activated.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7.1 (Aug 5, 2010)

  • 48 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,250 cities.
  • Daylight-saving information for Egypt has been updated. Egypt will suspend DST during Ramadan this year. Daylight-saving time will end on August 11 and then resume from September 10 to October 1.
  • The Help > Lookup Latitude & Longitude command now takes you to the GeoNames geographical database which covers all countries, including the United States and Antarctica.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.7 (May 10, 2010)

  • World Clock Deluxe now supports all-year-round daylight-saving time.
  • Daylight-saving information for Morocco, Samoa, Western Sahara, and for San Luis, Argentina has been updated. Morocco and Western Sahara observe DST from May 2 to August 8 this year. Samoa will trial daylight-saving time from the last Sunday in September to the first Sunday in April. The San Luis province in Argentina extended daylight-saving time (which was originally planned to end on April 11) without setting any end date for the moment.
  • 96 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains over 1,200 cities. New cities are:
  • Antarctica: Bernardo O'Higgins, Eduardo Frei, Esperanza, Jubany, Marambio, Mirny, Neumayer, Orcadas, SANAE IV, Scott Base
  • Australia: Macquarie Island, TAS
  • Bangladesh: Barisal, Bogra, Comilla, Cox's Bazar, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet
  • Bhutan: Paro, Phuentsholing, Trongsa
  • Brunei: Kuala Belait, Muara, Seria
  • Cambodia: Battambang, Siem Reap, Sihanoukville
  • French Polynesia: Austral Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago
  • Indonesia: Cirebon, Kediri, Maumere, Pangkal Pinang, Pekalongan, Sumbawa Besar, Tasikmalaya, Tegal
  • Laos: Luang Prabang, Pakse, Savannakhet
  • Malaysia: Bandar Labuan, George Town, Ipoh, Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan, Shah Alam
  • Myanmar: Mawlamyaing
  • Nepal: Bharatpur, Biratnagar, Birganj, Mahendranagar, Pokhara
  • New Zealand: Hamilton, Invercargill, Napier-Hastings, Palmerston North, Tauranga
  • North Korea: Chongjin, Hamhung, Namp'o
  • Pakistan: Gilgit, Gujranwala, Gwadar, Hyderabad, Multan, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Sialkot
  • Papua New Guinea: Lae, Mount Hagen, Rabaul
  • Philippines: Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, Makati, Quezon City, Zamboanga City
  • South Korea: Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, Suwon, Ulsan
  • Sri Lanka: Kandy, Negombo, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, Trincomalee
  • Taiwan: Magong, Tainan
  • Thailand: Hat Yai, Koh Chang, Koh Samui, Udon Thani
  • Vietnam: Buon Ma Thuot, Can Tho, Nha Trang

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.10 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • Ensenada, Mexico has been added to the World Clock Deluxe cities database. The city of Ensenada in Baja California, located about 70 miles from the Northern Mexican border, has also adopted the United States daylight-saving time rule (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November).
  • The offset from UTC of 8 Russian cities has been updated after the Kamchatka, Chukotka, Udmurtia, Samara, and Kemerovo regions in Russia moved to different time zones and Russia reduced the number of its time zones from 11 to 9 on March 28, 2010.
  • Edited cities are:
  • Samara Oblast - Samara - from UTC+4 to UTC+3
  • Samara Oblast - Tolyatti - from UTC+4 to UTC+3
  • Udmurt Republic - Izhevsk - from UTC+4 to UTC+3
  • Kemerovo Oblast - Kemerovo - from UTC+7 to UTC+6
  • Kemerovo Oblast - Novokuznetsk - from UTC+7 to UTC+6
  • Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Anadyr - from UTC+12 to UTC+11
  • Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Provideniya - from UTC+12 to UTC+11
  • Kamchatka Krai - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski - from UTC+12 to UTC+11
  • The offset from UTC of the Australian Antarctic stations Casey and Davis has been updated. With winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, Casey switched back to UTC+8, while Davis reverted to UTC+7.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Bangladesh, Pakistan, Syria, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank has been updated. Bangladesh and Pakistan decided to cancel daylight-saving time. Syria postponed the start of DST from last Friday in March to the first Friday in April. Daylight-saving time in the West Bank and in Gaza started on March 26 and 27, respectively and will end on October 4, this year.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.9 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • ylight-saving time information for Chile, Egypt, Fiji, and Paraguay has been updated.
  • Fiji anticipates the end of daylight-saving time from April 25 to March 28 due to growing complaints across the country.
  • DST will then return on October 24.
  • Chile decided to postpone the end of daylight-saving time from March 14 to April 4 due to the recent earthquake.
  • Paraguay amended its DST start and end dates (first Sunday in October to the second Sunday in April) as part of a series of measures to rationalize electricity consumption. Egypt will probably observe daylight-saving time from April 30 to August 6 this year.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.8 (Jan 12, 2010)

  • If you use Spaces, you can now have the Clocks palette always available, no matter which space you're in, by selecting the Show palette in all spaces checkbox in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
  • Daylight-saving time information has been updated for Bangladesh, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, and Western Sahara. This year, Bangladesh will observe DST from March 31 to November 1, while in Israel DST will start on March 26 and end on September 12. Egypt, Morocco, and Western Sahara may not observe daylight-saving time in 2010.
  • 10 cities on the Northern Mexican border will soon adopt the same daylight-saving time rule as the United States (second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November). Daylight-saving time information has therefore been updated for Tijuana and Mexicali in the state of Baja California, and the remaining 8 border cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.7 (Nov 18, 2009)

  • 126 cities in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Yemen have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database (for a complete list, see http://www.mabasoft.net/news/2009.html).
  • The offset from UTC of the Australian Antarctic stations Casey, Davis, and Mawson has been updated. To comport with operational schedules from their supply bases, Davis and Mawson moved to UTC+5, while Casey moved to UTC+11.
  • Casey Time (CAST), Oral Time (ORAT), and Fiji Summer Time (FJST) have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
  • Daylight-saving information has been updated for Fiji, Syria, and San Luis, Argentina. San Luis and Syria changed their DST end date, while Fiji re-introduces daylight-saving time this year, starting on the last Sunday in November and ending on the last Sunday in April.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.6 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • The Clocks palette pop-up menu, the Dock icon menu and the menu associated with the World Clock Deluxe icon or clock in the menu bar can now show your clocks' daylight-saving time transitions so that you can easily see which cities are about to turn clocks forward or backward - they are marked with an asterisk (*) - and when daylight-saving time will exactly start or end for each of them. If you prefer to hide daylight-saving time transitions in a menu, deselect the corresponding Show daylight-saving time transitions checkbox in the Menus pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Argentina, Bangladesh, and Samoa has been updated. Argentina, with the exception of the San Luis province, canceled daylight-saving time. Bangladesh extended daylight-saving time (which was originally planned to end on October 1) without setting any end date for the moment. Due to the recent tsunami, Samoa decided to postpone its DST trial to September 2010.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.5 (Aug 29, 2009)

  • The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been solved.
  • Daylight-saving time end date for Bangladesh has been updated (October 1, 2009).
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed and some revisions and minor improvements have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.4 (Aug 12, 2009)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Egypt has been updated. Due to Ramadan which this year starts on August 22, Egypt decided to anticipate the end of daylight-saving time from September 25 to August 21.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.3 (Jun 11, 2009)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Western Australia, Bangladesh, Mauritius, and Samoa has been updated. With a referendum held on May 16 Western Australia rejected daylight-saving after a three-year trial. Bangladesh and Samoa will both trial DST this year, starting on June 20 and October 4, respectively. Mauritius decided not to repeat last year's daylight-saving time trial.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.2 (May 8, 2009)

  • Check for updates has been fully revised and lets you now check for updates both manually and automatically. To set World Clock Deluxe to check for updates automatically or schedule how often you want it to check, open the Software Update pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
  • Daylight-saving time information for Pakistan has been updated. Pakistan observes DST from April 15 to November 1 this year.
  • A bug that caused clocks and your local date and time to be missing or outdated in the menu bar while World Clock Deluxe displayed a modal window or alert has been fixed.
  • Some minor improvements concerning lists and keyboard focus have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6.1 (Apr 2, 2009)

  • Daylight-saving time for the Gaza Strip, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank, and Western Sahara has been updated. Morocco and Western Sahara will observe DST from from June 1 to August 21 this year. Syria anticipated the start of daylight-saving time to the last Friday in March, while the Gaza Strip and the West Bank will end daylight-saving time on September 28. Tunisia decided to cancel daylight-saving time.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.6 (Mar 17, 2009)

  • 88 cities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Russia,
  • Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Yemen have been added to the World Clock
  • Deluxe databas
  • The offset from UTC of San Luis, Argentina has been changed from - 3 h to - 4 h after the San Luis province adopted Western Argentina Time on March 15, 2009.
  • Western Argentina Time (WART) and Western Argentina Summer Time (WARST) have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
  • Daylight-saving information has been updated for Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Gaza Strip, Israel, Iran, and the West Bank.
  • The repositioning of the Clocks palette after screen configuration changes involving multiple displays has been improved. In addition to that, you can now automatically keep the Clocks palette always on your primary screen when you connect one or more external displays to your computer by selecting the "Always show palette on primary screen" checkbox in the Palette pane of World Clock Deluxe Preferences.
  • An incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 that could cause the loss of the World Clock Deluxe preferences under particular circumstances has been solved.
  • Some other minor bugs have been fixed and some minor improvements have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.5.7 (Nov 5, 2008)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Río Gallegos, San Juan and Ushuaia has been updated, since the Western Argentine provinces (Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, La Roja, San Juan, Mendoza, San Luis, Neuguén, La Pampa, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur) have decided not to observe daylight-saving time this year.
  • Daylight-saving time end date for Syria has been corrected (November 1, 2008).
  • 15 Argentine cities have been added so that now all Argentine provinces are included in the World Clock Deluxe database. New cities are:
  • Buenos Aires Province: La Plata, Bahía Blanca
  • Chaco Province: Resistencia
  • Chubut Province: Rawson, Comodoro Rivadavia
  • Corrientes Province: Corrientes
  • Entre Ríos Province: Paraná
  • Formosa Province: Formosa
  • La Pampa Province: Santa Rosa
  • Misiones Province: Posadas
  • Neuguén Province: Neuguén
  • Río Negro Province: Viedma
  • Salta Province: Salta
  • Santa Fe Province: Santa Fe
  • Santiago del Estero Province: Santiago del Estero

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.5.6 (Oct 3, 2008)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Argentina has been updated.
  • Argentina will observe DST from the third Sunday in October to the third Sunday in March this year.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.5.5 (Sep 2, 2008)

  • Daylight-saving time for Brazil, Gaza Strip, Mauritius, Morocco, Pakistan and Western Sahara has been updated. Brazil will start DST time on October 19 this year, while Mauritius amended its DST start and end dates (last Sunday in October to last Sunday in March). Gaza, Morocco and Western Sahara anticipated the end of daylight-saving time due to Ramadan which started on September 1, while Pakistan decided to extend DST to November 1.
  • The city of Bethlehem in the West Bank has been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.5.4 (Jul 8, 2008)

  • 99 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains 900 cities.
  • The offset from UTC of Rio Branco in the Brazilian state of Acre has been changed from - 5 h to - 4 h after Brazil abolished its forth time zone on June 24, 2008.
  • Mauritius will re-introduce daylight-saving time this year as a trial: DST will start on November 1, 2008 and end on March 31, 2009.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.5.3 (Jun 3, 2008)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Morocco and Pakistan has been updated. Both countries are re-introducing daylight-saving time this year as a trial: Morocco will observe DST from June 1 to September 28, while Pakistan moved clocks one hour ahead on June 1 and will most probably move them back one hour on September 1.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.5.2 (Apr 4, 2008)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Cuba, Gaza Strip, Guatemala, Iraq, Jordan and Syria has been updated. Iraq decided to abolish daylight-saving time, while Guatemala revoked its plan to re-introduce daylight-saving time in 2008. Cuba, Gaza Strip, Jordan and Syria changed their DST start date.
  • The World Clock Deluxe date formats let you now display the day of the year (001-366) which is widely used in spaceflight operations and space sciences.
  • Some minor bugs concerning the editing of date formats have been fixed.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.5.1 (Mar 4, 2008)

  • Daylight-saving time information for Chile and Guatemala has been updated. Chile decided to extend daylight-saving time this year from the second to the last Saturday in March as part of a series of measures to address the energy problems caused by a monthslong drought. Guatemala is re-introducing daylight-saving time in 2008 and will observe it from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.5 (Jan 29, 2008)

  • 190 cities have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains 800 cities.
  • Five time zones have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database which now contains 218 time zones and world times. New time zones are Argentina Summer Time (ARST), Australia Central Western Standard Time (ACWST), Australia Central Western Daylight Time (ACWDT), Sakhalin Time (SAKT) and Sakhalin Summer Time (SAKST).
  • Venezuela's offset from UTC has been updated to - 4 h 30 min and the geographical coordinates of Havana, Cuba and Hobart, TAS, Australia have been corrected.
  • DST information has been updated for several countries. Argentina and Iran re-introduced daylight-saving time in 2008. South Australia, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Tasmania extended daylight-saving time which now starts on the first Sunday in October and ends on the first Sunday in April. Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Gaza Strip, Israel and Syria changed their DST start and/or end dates.
  • World Clock Deluxe now shows a progress window while it is updating cities, time zones and DST rules and, once the update is terminated, displays a detailed report of all changes.
  • Clocks in the Dock can now show weekday and date instead of city, time zone or alternate text. To display weekdays and dates in the Dock, configure clocks so that they show weekday and date and hide city, time zone and alternate text.
  • A bug that caused menu bar shortcuts to be active despite the Dock icon was hidden and World Clock Deluxe had no menu bar has been fixed.
  • Some other minor bugs have been fixed and several improvements, mainly concerning the updating of clocks in the palette, menu bar and Dock, have been introduced.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.4.9 (Oct 29, 2007)

  • The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard have been solved.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed and some minor interface improvements have been introduced.
  • Minimum required system version is now Mac OS X 10.3.9.

New in World Clock Deluxe 4.4.8 (Oct 9, 2007)

  • Cities and and DST rules have been revised and updated. The Brazilian regions observing daylight-saving time (Central-West, Southeast and South) changed DST rule (second Sunday in October to third Sunday in February). Syria, due to Ramadan which this year lasts from September 13 to October 12, decided to postpone the end of daylight-saving time from October 1 to November 1.