This doesn't solve my main gripe with most time converters. I normally don't want the time in Vienna, I want the time at UST-6. My common use case is that I find out an event will start streaming at, say, 10 PM UST-6 and all I know is my clock is EST-3. If I don't know what country uses UST-6, this converter is next to useless for me. My problem is with multiple standards, not with visualization.
Am I going out of my mind, or is this not a year old already?
I'm sure there was an article on the front page where they talked about the build and stuff like local storage on iPad. (it started life as an iPad web app).
I'm aware that "dupes" are bound to occur, but this was big news last time around and I'm surprised no one remembers it.
Well, it's nice but...
It shows completely random cities I don't care about. As a bonus it doesn't mention what timezone they are in. Also, I'm pretty sure my locale doesn't use 12h format.
"Best" is a bit of stretch, and link-baiting: let us be judge of that.
Anyway, I don't mind the "Freckle" ad at the end, but please don't hijack my clicks. If I want to open it in a new tab, don't use a js on_click, and put a simple link to the website.
I'm the developer of the site. Just a quick note, on iPad/iPhone and Android you have the option to customize the list of time zones shown; and we'll add more time zones in the future (and probably some sort of city search and custom labels). There will also be some sort of calendar to select a date in the future, so you can link to specific date with the correct timezone offsets for that date set (because those change with DST).
Sorry, this is way too confusing. What I like is a simple tool like http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ is another visually appealing option.
I wish there was an option to switch to timezone names (EST, CST, etc) instead of just cities but still this is great as timezones anyways throw me off
I travel a lot on business and have been using this tool for a while.
The main consumer problem it solves for me is the "I'm in Barcelona on Tuesday and need a conference call between Atlanta and Ukraine. What is a time that's workable for everyone"
It's indispensable for that problem for me. Filtering TZ and adding TZ would be a nice additional feature though.
It seems really finicky, at least on Firefox (it keeps jumping back to the current time). You also can't add or remove cities/time zones, so overall it seems pretty useless.
Nice, but I find Wolfram Alpha faster and easier to use:
I would agree if there was an option for the 24 hours format.
Google also works well.
Well, almost. Could do with a city lookup that highlights the timezone bar that corresponds to your chosen city and labels it with that city. I think that's the missing step in usability.
I also think it's too confusing. I prefer http://time.is over it.
Why does every HN story get reposted every 6 months or so?
Uh, that's awesome. Actually really well laid out and visually appealing, and understandable.
EDIT: ooh actually, could do with an option to remove/add the sliding time selection. I'm finding it hard to revert to my current local time once I've moved the selection.
I built an iPhone as a weekend project a year or so ago. http://www.timesliderapp.com (free). In a similar vein to this one... the few people who've downloaded it seem to like it :)
Works & looks nicely on the iPhone but the thing that bugged me is that each time you slide the bar, you get another hash in the url - ending up in me clicking the back button about 15 times to finally get back to HN.
For a few things in life, I confess to liking the old-fashioned ways. For time zones, I like this iOS app:
It doesn't look like it handles the switch to Daylights savings time. See http://everytimezone.com/#2012-3-11,-300,6be
Such a brilliant way to market your product, LetsFreckle. Better than any adwords or facebook ads campaign I'm sure. Hope you're tracking conversions from this.
Content marketing at its finest. Great job.
I actually find that usability wise, this is a bit difficult. I far prefer http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
This is neat. It reminds me a bit of part of my Conky setup. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/zi1Ub. It's not as accurate, but it gives me an idea of what time of day it is everywhere.
I have a cron script that runs every hour that pulls in sat images of cloud cover, the earth, and then the daylight lines and composites them together with imagemagick. I got the script from a lifehacker article where they used it for wallpaper.
It is nice but you would like to have the possibility to choose your own towns. Often for example I want to know what time it is in Seattle compared to the time in Frankfurt where I live. If it can be customized, it will be a great tool.
For the moment I prefer www.time.is which takes a different approach but what I want.
Well-done interface and great promo for their core product, which I am going to take a deeper look at, because maybe we can use it. Back to the converter: what I need to convert most often is between UTC and local time. Suggest also making displayed timezones configurable, several other minor nits...
This is a great repurposed version of the Hipmunk interface, Surprised no one else has made the connection! FlickMunk won the techcrunch disrupt (hipmunk for movies) - I wonder how many other applications for this interface style will pop up, it's pretty versatile.
I'm using timeanddate.com since long time, and plan to continue to do so:) Love their multi-zone meeting planner. Also lots of useful details, such as when the next daylight savings shift is going to happen in a particular location.
Please include other BRIC countries that were kept out of list: Russia and China.
FYI, you can also type "What time is it in CityName" into Google.
My problem with Google (and this site) is sometimes I don't know a city and am only given a timezone (e.g. on the phone someone says "Call me back before 7:30 Pacific").
I've been planning on making this exact thing myself. This one looks even better than what I was thinking though. The only thing it's missing is the ability to choose which timezones you want to see.
Fantastic! Been looking for something like this.
Could you also put the timezone (both GMT and other name) besides the city name? (as subscript & subscript, one over the orther) [ex: San Francisco (PDT/GMT-x)]
Shell solution:
TZ=*some_timezone* date
$ TZ=Australia/Sydney date
Thu Mar 22 19:16:41 EST 2012Why does Firefox ask me whether I want to allow storing offline data? What do they want to store?
It's a day behind for me; i's reading 5:14PM on March 20th in SF when it's actually the 21st.
Looks great. I wish there was a screensaver like this with the current time.
It would be nicer if it had and actual globe with the highlighted zone.
Real nice. Can you customize city names and/or their time zone labels?
Let me see all timezones / select custom, and it'd be perfect as a quick check
Nice work
I use this all the time for scheduling meetings across timezones.
It's using my computer's time which is off by quite a bit.
a better one would've allowed to add a new TZ and sort the ones displayed on screen...
Absolutely awesome!
ancient
Glad you guys like it. I designed it, my husband Thomas Fuchs built it.
I designed it this way because none of the time zone tools out there reflect the actual nature of time (zones): simultaneous, overlapping lines thru time. ETZ doesn't just give you the answer, it helps you create a useful model of understanding to take with you & use even when you're not looking at ETZ.
We've been slowly improving it, so expect more options for customizing the tz's you see & static links to times in the future, etc.
EDIT: if you like the design of ETZ, you will probably love Freckle, which is our time tracking / productivity tool -- all about making your data painless to get, then super useful & actionable: http://letsfreckle.com/startups/
time.is does it better in their "here & there" function. choose a few cities, shows a tabular comparison of all timeslots. this is what you need to determine the best time slot for a telco with multiple international participants.
Question: Why did the title of this post change? Was it the original submitter who changed it? If no, who?
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Neat idea and execution, but I wish there would be possibility to add your own cities/time zones. Also 24 hour format.
There are too many time zones, I say toss day light savings time and instead, reduce the time zones, there are 4 in the US, there should be 2 at most, East and West, better for commerce, much more benefit than silly day light savings time which saves no energy and irritates everyone.
This looks great, and I love the slider. Maybe I'm just not seeing the option, but I need to be able to add and remove time zones. A lot of the confusion of these tools is having to ignore the many cities that don't concern you.
Saying the weekday on each would be great too (ex: Friday, March 21). When you're working with Australia it can be hard to remember that they're almost a full day ahead.