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Cat Clock v3 · Designed, sketched and built by Akanksha · Made with love, patience and chai · Weather data by Open‑Meteo.com

🐾 How Cat Clock works

Cat Clock counts down to 6 PM, so you don't have to keep checking. A small office of cats lives through the workday with you, dreading the morning, grumbling through the afternoon and cheering as the end gets close.

⏳ The countdown

The workday runs from 9 AM to 6 PM on your local clock, with lunch from 12 to 1. The day moves through five moods, from Dreading It in the morning through Grumpy, Hanging In There and Winding Down to Almost Free. The page's colours change with each one. After 6, it counts down to 9 AM tomorrow. On Friday evening it says TGIF, with confetti.

A new quote to match the mood shows up every five minutes, with a little Japanese flavour.

📊 The loading bar

The whole day is one big loading bar. The fill creeps along with the percentage showing and a cat riding on top. The caption keeps you company: Motivation loading…, then Coffee loading…, then Freedom loading…. At 6 PM it hits 100% ✓ and the cat curls up for a nap.

🏢 The office

The cats keep busy. They type at their desks, wander over to the coffee machine, and head through the glass door into the meeting room, where now and then someone can't take it any more and wails. Some come out of meetings a little dizzy. From 11:30 they start getting hungry, and from 12 to 1 everyone eats from a steaming rice bowl.

Click or tap the floor to hire a cat. There's room for six. After that, the oldest cat clocks out.

Click a cat to chat. Every cat has a name, its own coat color and a personality: Mochi the coffee addict, Miso the professional grump, Tofu who is always napping, Kuro the mysterious intern, and eight more. Each talks in its own voice, and now and then says something about how the workday is going, whether it's at its desk, at the coffee machine, in a meeting, at lunch or heading home.

😺 Cat moods

There are 20 hand-drawn expressions, and each cat picks its own mood when it sits down at a desk. The time of day sets the mix, and each cat's personality tilts it: Miso is grumpy more often, Tofu stays sleepy, Hana is cheerful, Kuro is deadpan, and night owl Ramen perks up in the evening:

There are three ways to cry: welling up, full-on wailing, and happy tears.

🌆 The Tokyo skyline

The window looks out on Tokyo right now. Dawn, day, dusk and night follow Tokyo's real sunrise and sunset, and the sun and moon cross the sky. The live weather updates every 15 minutes: clear skies, drifting clouds, fog, rain on the glass, snow, and thunderstorms with the odd flash of lightning.

After dark, the city lights up. Office windows glow, Tokyo Tower is floodlit, red aircraft beacons blink, and the Rainbow Bridge shimmers. On a clear night, watch for a shooting star. The time and weather in Tokyo are shown under the countdown.

🍂 Seasons

The office dresses up for the time of year. From September to November a garland of maple leaves hangs over the window and autumn leaves drift past outside. From September 25 to October 31 it turns spooky: a jack-o'-lantern by the plant, cobwebs in the corners, bats fluttering across the skyline, and a witch hat on every cat, even Keibi-kun, who swaps its security cap for one. The meeting room gets bunting with paper ghosts, a spider in its web, a bowl of candy and a pumpkin on the table.

🤖 Meet Keibi-kun, the security guard

When the clock hits 6 PM on a weekday, the office gets a new visitor: Keibi-kun, a security-guard robot in a peaked cap with a gold badge (keibi is Japanese for "security guard"). It has one job: make sure nobody works late.

What it looks like. It rolls around on a white wheeled base. Its arms are held forward, ready for business, and a camera mast rises behind its head. A dark visor shows two glowing blue eyes, and they tell you its mood:

How it works.

  1. It rolls in from the side of the office just after 6. The cats don't leave on their own at 6 any more; they keep working until Keibi-kun arrives.
  2. It finds each late worker in turn, starting with the nearest. That might be a cat at a desk, one lingering at the coffee machine, or one stuck in a meeting, which it reaches through the meeting-room door, just like the cats do.
  3. It stops beside them and says "Past 6 PM! Go home!". The cat breaks into a nervous sweat and heads for the exit.
  4. It says goodbye once the office is empty, with a cheerful "Otsukaresama!". That's Japanese for "thanks for your hard work".
  5. It patrols the empty office, now and then peeking into the meeting room. After dark it carries a flashlight, sweeping a warm beam across the floor.
  6. It turns the lights off. Once Tokyo is dark and nobody's left, it says "Lights out!". The office fades to darkness, and only the city glows through the window.

Try it: hire a cat after 6 PM by clicking the office. The lights flick back on, and Keibi-kun comes over to send your new hire home.

Its schedule.

✨ Try it

Want to see Tokyo in other weather? These links preview the sky:

🛠 Made by

Designed, sketched and built by Akanksha Vani, who also looks after the site and its cats. Ideas or bug reports are welcome on LinkedIn.

💛 Small print

If your device is set to reduce motion, everything calms down to match. Weather data comes from Open-Meteo.com. It was made with love, patience and chai.