One GigaSecond is 10^9 (1 billion) seconds.
The clock measures time in gigaseconds relative to the start of the universe (an estimated 13.8095 billion years ago).
Each bar on the clock represents a single digit of the current time.
Severely hacky code written by Stephen Gutekanst over ~7 hours with help from Andoryuuta.
Inspiration drawn from shuryear-clock.
Uses d3js and decimal.js and a snippet by enjalot, photo by wikimedia.
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