Monitor.

Time, sky, and a little perspective.

TodayOne moment, different scales.

Here & now

Local time
Elsewhere, in UTC
This year—
Day — of —— days left

Above us

Lunar cycle

The Moon

— illuminated ≈

— into the cycle

Zodiac—
Universal day · numerology—

Markets

Connecting
BitcoinBTC / USDT
—24h change —
Tokenized goldPAXG / USDT
—24h change —
Binance · quotes in USDT

A sense of scale

01 / Explore
€1 billion
Stack of €100 notes1.1 km10 million banknotes
That many seconds31.7 yearsOne second after another.
3–6

Assumes €167–333 million per hospital.

A light journey

02 / Play

Even light needs time to get somewhere.

0km travelled
0.00 s elapsed1.28 s to arrive

A simulation at 299,792 km per second.

Sources & how the numbers work

Time & sky

Clocks use your device time. The year begins on January 1 at 00:00 in your time zone. Lunar phase and illumination are approximate, using a mean 29.5306-day cycle. The diagram shows a conventional northern-hemisphere view. Zodiac dates and the universal day number are calendar curiosities.

NASA: the lunar cycle ↗

Markets

BTC and PAXG quotes come directly from Binance public market data. Values are in USDT; PAXG is a tokenized-gold asset. The feed distinguishes a live connection, periodic quotes, and unavailable or older data.

Market data source ↗

Scale

Banknotes assume a thickness of 0.11 mm. Time equivalents use a 365.25-day year. Infrastructure figures are illustrative scenarios retained from the original Monitor: €167–333m per hospital, €10–25m per school, €125–200k per home, €6.67m per highway km, €3.33m per wind turbine, and €1bn per small nuclear plant. These are calculation assumptions, not current cost estimates.

Light

Travel time = distance ÷ 299,792.458 km/s. The Moon uses a mean distance of 384,400 km; the Sun uses 1 astronomical unit, 149,597,870.7 km. The simulation holds those distances fixed. Its speed control changes elapsed simulation time.

NASA: distances in perspective ↗