TimeSync

Introduction

TimeSync is a small iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows a Rally Racing team to synchronize the app’s clock to the race’s master time piece. Additionally, the Rally Navigator will be able to view the clock in decimal time, with the seconds represented as hundredths of a minute rather than sixtieths of a minute if need be.

New in version 1.1 is an optional timer that can be started from zero, with start, stop, lap, and reset buttons.

New in version 1.3 is the ability to temporarily freeze the TOD clock by tapping the screen (lap timers must be disabled). The TOD clock still runs in the background, and tapping the screen again will resume displaying the current TOD (Time of Day).

Included Features since 1.0:

• Ability to sync the app’s clock (TOD clock) to an external time, so that they match. Example: Use TimeSync to match a rally race clock before the race starts.
• Display the clock with decimal seconds simply by swiping the screen. This comes in handy for co-drivers, also known as rally navigators.
• Synchronized time is saved across iPhone/iPod restarts, or when you quit and reopen the app. If the application should crash or the battery becomes critically low (device shuts down), the synchronized time is also saved. Just reopen the app.
• Synchronization occurs as soon as the ‘Sync’ button is touched; when you confirm the sync, the clock has been running since the moment you touched the ‘Sync’ button. Canceling the sync at any time will revert the clock to your current/previous sync. This avoids overwriting your current sync with an unwanted sync operation.
• Reset the app’s clock (TOD clock) to the iPhone/iPod’s time when convenient.
• Prevent the device’s display from sleeping in the App’s system settings.

TimeSync 1.3

• TimeSync’s system settings now has an option to include a “lap timer” which adds a timer to your screen that counts up from zero when the Start button is pressed.
• Pressing the Stop button will pause the timer from counting upwards.
• The timer will continue counting upwards when TimeSync is relaunched after having been quit, similar to the timer  in the default Clock app that comes with your iPhone/iPod Touch.
• Pressing the Lap button will display the clock of the timer at the moment the Lap button was last pressed, to keep track of arrival times at checkpoints, in order to write this information down, for example.
• Pressing the Reset button will reset the timer and lap clock back to zero.
• As always, all clocks/timers can also be viewed in decimal time by swiping the screen. Closing the app will not cause you to lose the times of the clocks.

• The Sync page now allows for landscape orientation. No need to rotate the device if you are already setup in landscape mode in your car. Info page also supports landscape.
• iPod Touch 1st generation models are now supported.
• Start, stop, lap, and reset buttons are now larger in landscape orientations which can help for those bumpy rides! (Actually, this one is since version 1.1.2)

• When the lap timers are disabled and only the TOD clock is displayed, you can tap the screen to freeze the TOD clock. Tap again to resume displaying the current Time Of Day.