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watson/colortime
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See time as color.

1.0.0(10y ago)3121MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Sep 25Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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ColorTime
=========

[](#colortime)

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Get time as a hexadecimal color, like [the color clock](http://www.jacopocolo.com/hexclock/).

For example, 10:10:10 AM will have a hex value of #101010.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Easy, use Composer! If you're yet to be enlightened by dependency management or like a challenge, copy the code in manually.

```
composer require "watson/colortime"
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Create a new instance and pass in the `DateTime` instance you want to use, or use the factory to get an instance for right now.

```
// Using a specific time.
$datTime = DateTime::createFromFormat('H:i:s', '10:10:10');

$colorTime = new \Watson\ColorTime\ColorTime($dateTime);

// Using the current time (you could also pass a DateTime instance to the factory if you so desired).
$colorTime = \Watson\ColorTime\ColorTime::make();
```

To get the time as a hex value, simply call the `hex()` method.

```
$hex = $colorTime->hex(); // '#101010'
```

Spellcheck
----------

[](#spellcheck)

If you'd rather spell colour correctly, simply subclass the `ColorTime` instance into your own application and use that instead.

This is just a joke, don't do this. Unless you want to, in which case feel free.

```
class ColourTime extends \Watson\ColorTime\ColorTime {}
```

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3889d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1100408?v=4)[Dwight Watson](/maintainers/dwightwatson)[@dwightwatson](https://github.com/dwightwatson)

---

Top Contributors

[![dwightwatson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1100408?v=4)](https://github.com/dwightwatson "dwightwatson (3 commits)")

---

Tags

clockdatetimecolor

###  Code Quality

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