Time 1.8 is a full-featured digital clock for your Palm Pilot. It's easy to use, and has a great graphical layout. Time is a world clock, alarm clock, and monthly calendar all rolled into one simple-to-use app.

Time has a plethora of features you can use, as well as multiple options you can choose from. The main display occupies the top half of the screen, and it shows the time on your Palm Pilot. This main clock can be displayed in four different ways: 12-hour mode, 24-hour mode, 12-hour mode with seconds, and 24-hour mode with seconds. Choosing between modes is simple --- just tap on the main clock to cycle between the 4 modes. I find this a great feature for people who are fussy about how their clocks are displayed, but I wish the display would "expand" to fill in all that empty space when the seconds-modes aren't employed. In that way, I'd be able to read the time from a distance (if, for example, I want to use my Palm V as a table clock as well).

Located at the middle right corner of the screen is the world clock. The world clock allows you to set up to seven different world times, and as an added bonus, you also get Internet Time as well (for those who are unfamiliar with Internet Time, it is a new time standard being promoted by the famous Swiss watch company Swatch, and it relies on the notion that a day is broken up into 1000 beats). Under the World Time menu, you can define the times of up to 8 different cities. Under each city, you can define the time zone, Daylight Savings Time setting and name of the city. There is no database of cities from which you can pick; instead you will need to know the exact time zones of the cities you wish to see on the world clock, and enter the information as desired. This might be a problem for some users if they do not know the time zone of the city that they are interested in, but on the flip side, the lack of a database keeps the program size small.

The world clock can also be set to automatically cycle between the cities that you have chosen to be displayed. The time between cycling can also be defined in seconds. If you choose not to use the automatic display function, you can easily view the world times by tapping on the world clock. I find this less distracting, since I can view the world times at my own fancy. If you do not need world times at all, you can opt to have no cities displayed.

On the middle left corner of the screen is the monthly calendar. Here, you can choose to view the current, previous, or future month. As well, the calendar can be viewed in different formats: with a border, and showing the days of the week; without a border or days of the week; without a border but with the days of the week; and with no calendar at all. The current day is highlighted with a black box around it, so you can easily keep track of the day and date. The dates on the calendars (numerals) are nicely spaced out, so it is easy to pick out a certain date with one glance. You can choose the day on which the week starts, but you can only choose from Sunday or Monday. This can be done under the Preferences menu. Otherwise, the default for this option is to follow the system settings on your Palm.

The Preferences menu also allows you several other options. You an choose to have your Palm to always stay on when using Time, which is useful when you would like to use the app as a desk clock. You can also configure the hardware scroll buttons to scroll in the world time, calendar or 12/24 hr mode functions. Other configurable options include the week number and week start display, as well as an hour chime. Of course, there are also options you can choose for the alarm mode of the app. You can set the alarm to snooze at certain intervals, and have a pop-up to remind you when the alarm goes off.

Alarms are extremely important to many business professionals who are on the road. In fact, most anyone who uses a Palm makes use of its alarms to remind them every so often of the appointments they have, or the things they have to do. Time allows you to set an alarm as you deem fit. You can specify up to 3 alarms, as well as make short notes on the alarms. The alarms can be set to occur on any day you choose, or even every day if you so desire. You can choose from 7 different alarm sounds, and you can also set a snooze function for your alarm. The snooze function ranges from a one-minute repeat to a half-hour repeat, with a total of 5 options. You can further set the snooze function to repeat up to 10 times. This feature is really handy, and allows for quite a bit of flexibility to suit each user's needs.