Raspberry Pi Chronometer

Turn your RaspberryPi in to an Internet Chronometer.

Display is a UCTRONICS 3.5 Inch HDMI display.

Features:

Utilizes system time via NTP. All you need to provide is an internet connection.
Customizable banner that can be changed in config.xml
Customizable world clock timezones that can be changed in config.xml. Timezones must be in pytz format:
```
import pytz
for tz in pytz.all_timezones:
    print(tz)
```

Description

TOP
- Progress chart for current time units (Second, Minute, Hour, Day, Month, Year, Century).
MIDDLE
- World Clock
BOTTOM
- UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
- MET - Metric Time
- SOL - Solar Time
- LST - Local Sidereal Time
- UNX - Unix Epoch Time
- SIT - Swatch Internet Time
- NET - New Earth Time
- HEX - Hexadecimal Time
- Binary Clock
- Daylight Savings Indicator
- NTP Status (Server, Stratum, Delay, Offset)

Notes:

In order to get the display to work with this code, you need to set the resolution to 480x320, and set the console font to VGA 8x14.
longitude value needs to updated in chrono-config to ensure accurate solar time and sidereal time values. West longitude is indicated by a negative value.
NTP daemon needs to be running as a background service: sudo apt install ntp

Required Python modules:

pytz

Modules can be install using pip install [module] or from your distros repositories.