[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
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Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
Author : kamranahmedse
Score : 651 points
Date : 2024-01-05 07:40 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (time.fyi)
(TXT) w3m dump (time.fyi)
| achempion wrote:
| Thanks for sharing, it works very cool
| TurbieneMaja wrote:
| This is extremely useful. Thanks for sharing. Are there future
| features planned? It could be a big thing.
| kamranahmedse wrote:
| What else would you like to see? I have some other time related
| tools that I will be launching but would love to hear what you
| have in mind.
| TurbieneMaja wrote:
| - Show the timezone name/descriptor if I select a city (yes,
| it already says 'GMT+X', but it would be helpful to have the
| local timezone name of that city as well) - Somehow select a
| time for a different day. E.g. if I want to compare the times
| for the 22nd of October 2024 instead of today
| (Countries/Cities/Regions swap timezones x-times a year, on
| different days)
| max_likelihood wrote:
| I was thinking it would be cool to add another slider for day
| of the year. That way you can see how the differences change
| as local timezones roll through their own daylight savings
| time or other adjustments. For example, right now Asuncion
| Paraguay is +3 hours ahead of Chicago U.S. but in April it
| will be only one hour ahead.
| dr_kiszonka wrote:
| Link sharing would be useful. Here is a site similar to
| yours, albeit not as pretty.
| https://podfeet.com/webapps/time-shifter-clock/
| ksimon wrote:
| Wow, what a nice tool :) bookmarked!
| topaztee wrote:
| its very well designed, bookmarked
| kseistrup wrote:
| Very useful!
|
| It would be nice to be able to share a set of timezones by
| sharing a URL with parameters.
| lifthrasiir wrote:
| Yeah, time.is supported that for a long time and was extremely
| useful for me.
| quambene wrote:
| isn't supported anymore?
| kamranahmedse wrote:
| It should be live today.
| agustinf wrote:
| I was going to say the same thing. The lack of this feature
| prevented me from sharing it to my whole company
| j-rom wrote:
| Might I interest you in https://currenttimeutc.com/. This
| creates shareable dashboards with different cities,
| timezones, and airports.
| trosenbaum wrote:
| Looks great, unfortunately I am having challenges using it on
| iPhone Safari: trying to engage the sliders moves the cards
| around instead.
| kamranahmedse wrote:
| Thank you for reporting. I am looking into it.
| neduma wrote:
| Can we drag the boxes to re-order?
| kamranahmedse wrote:
| Yes, you can.
| LVB wrote:
| I'm unable to drag the cards on iPhone.
| kamranahmedse wrote:
| Ah that was intentional, it disables the sorting on smaller
| screens. I am working on some UI refinement for smaller
| screens and will re-enable sorting after that.
| jonty wrote:
| I've always been a fan of the https://everytimezone.com
| interface, which seems like it may have been acquired at some
| point. Still works brilliantly though!
| modeless wrote:
| Yes! I've been looking for this one and couldn't find it! Thank
| you. Google is useless for finding stuff like this now.
| Tempest1981 wrote:
| "Every" -- Why no Alaska or Hawaii?
| yarone wrote:
| Also might be useful to some: in Google Cal, you can show a
| secondary time zone on left hand side. Mine shows PT and CT for
| example.
| foreigner wrote:
| I depends on this, but Google Calendar only lets you add a
| second time zone. They don't take up much space, I'd love to
| have 3 or 4. Has anybody figured out a way to do that?
| sb057 wrote:
| Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
| WasimBhai wrote:
| This is a great tool. Thank you. As an international student in
| US with a lag of 10-12 hours with my home country, this will be
| very helpful in scheduling calls.
| kyawzazaw wrote:
| Very well designed
|
| Can I edit the name of the cities? As in I want to label as San
| Francisco instead of "Los Angeles"
| kyawzazaw wrote:
| The reset button doesn't really explain to me as it will reset to
| current time.
| recroad wrote:
| There's a lot of dead space. Maybe condense it so more timezones
| fit on the screen.
| scop wrote:
| I actually quite like the amount of dead space, as most time
| conversion tools I have used have been filled to the gills with
| information whereas I am typically only looking for one or two
| specific data points. To be honest, with many time conversion
| apps I often even struggle to distinguish a meaningful header,
| main content, and footer as they will often resemble some sort
| of industrial ticker. I know, different tools for different
| purposes, but that is exactly why I like this: it achieves
| simple comparisons simply.
| j-rom wrote:
| Very cool! I like how you use a slider to update the times.
|
| Shameless plug for my own site that does something similar:
| https://currenttimeutc.com/
| pveierland wrote:
| Feature suggestions:
|
| - 12/24 hour setting should be detected based on browser locale.
|
| - Colon symbol is broken on Firefox + Chrome for me in Linux
| (Shows U+FE55 symbol).
|
| - Ability to toggle showing all cards in a single column layout
| so you can see the sliders position relative to each other more
| easily.
| bl4kers wrote:
| Yes, I'd prefer a single column like the experience on mobile
| ukuina wrote:
| Fantastic. Thank you.
|
| Any way to "pin" the current time so it acts as a live world
| clock?
| arp242 wrote:
| If you're one of those "give me a terminal or give me death"
| master race kind of person, then I have a little shell script I
| use for this: % tz US West 18:39
| -0800 PST US East 21:39 -0500 EST UTC
| 02:39 +0000 UTC Ireland/UK 02:39 +0000 GMT West
| Europe 03:39 +0100 CET New Zealand 15:39 +1300 NZDT
| Current 02:39 +0000 GMT % tz 18:00 US
| West 10:00 -0800 PST US East 13:00 -0500 EST
| UTC 18:00 +0000 UTC Ireland/UK 18:00 +0000
| GMT West Europe 19:00 +0100 CET New Zealand
| 07:00 +1300 NZDT Current 18:00 +0000 GMT
|
| I find it's pretty convenient anyway.
|
| https://github.com/arp242/dotfiles/blob/master/local/script/...
| hn92726819 wrote:
| I use something similar, but I use -d "$*" instead of -d "$1"
| so I can do $ dates 4 hours ago
|
| One of two times "$*" had been useful
| arp242 wrote:
| I didn't know date supported that - can still do that with
| "tz '4 hours ago'".
|
| For me the most useful part is being able to quickly
| translate things like "let's do a video chat at 3pm PST" to
| something that makes sense, which is why it had the second
| argument to set the timezone.
| adolfoabegg wrote:
| bug report: Apia shows as capital of American Samoa
| T-Winsnes wrote:
| I've been a big fan of worldtimebuddy[1] for a long time. I book
| a lot of meetings across timezones and it's makes it very easy to
| see when a good time for a meeting would be between sydney tokyo
| and miami as an example
|
| [1] https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
| j-rom wrote:
| Out of curiosity, would you prefer to see all the options laid
| out so you can quickly scan which ones would be optimal? Or
| would you prefer to click a button and then it just schedules
| the meeting for you?
| vishkk wrote:
| Pretty cool, really like it. I have been using Overlap by
| Moleskine on iOS for a while:
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/overlap-by-moleskine-studio/id...
| pimlottc wrote:
| That looks nice, but I don't really understand what the blobby
| graphs mean in the screenshots
| em-bee wrote:
| i have always only knew about https://www.worldtimezone.com/
|
| it has a nice world map, but its call planner feature is simpler
| than some of the alternatives mentioned here.
| p-e-w wrote:
| Great UI design; clean, intuitive, and useful. Thank you for
| this!
|
| On a side note, I'd really like to know what broken mechanism
| aggressively downranks such quality community submissions. 67
| upvotes in 2 hours, and only ranked 9th. Meanwhile, another post
| with _fewer_ upvotes in _more_ time is ranked 2nd. Something is
| very wrong here. I 'd love to see more posts like this one, and
| fewer standard blog articles that are hitting the front page for
| the third time in five years.
| stanislavb wrote:
| I'd bet you will never find the answer to this.
| owlninja wrote:
| Nothing is wrong here in my opinion
| system2 wrote:
| What is right about it? He explained the faulty algorithm.
| boldi wrote:
| There is an answer to your question [0]:
|
| "The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time
| since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the
| same way.
|
| Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse
| software, software which demotes overheated discussions,
| account or site weighting, and moderator action."
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
| howon92 wrote:
| I love it. Thank you for making it
| bosch_mind wrote:
| Typing Arizona yields no results
| Rebelgecko wrote:
| You can type specific cities (like Phoenix) but I couldn't find
| any entries for the parts of AZ that observe DST (like Tuba
| City)
| danparsonson wrote:
| That's really nice and coincidentally I needed such a tool just a
| few days ago.
|
| If I could make a small suggestion - always mark a few key times
| on the timeline so a user can quickly guesstimate, say, midday
| here is 9am there without the sliders.
| LilBytes wrote:
| Great tool OP, thank you.
| chris-orgmenta wrote:
| That slider feature is so incredibly useful. I think I will use
| this many times per week. This is what I needed but didn't know I
| needed.
| amingilani wrote:
| Please put an ad on this so that it'll always be free and
| accessible!
| ArekDymalski wrote:
| Very nice, very useful. The slider is extremely easy & fast input
| method which is great. I've encountered an issue with the fonts
| spacing of hours and minutes - the digits are overlapping:
| https://imgur.com/a/meoRaJL (Win11, Chrome, Firefox, Edge)
| kamranahmedse wrote:
| I just deployed the fix for this. It should be fine now.
| internet2000 wrote:
| Add a few commonly compared timezones by default. I should be
| able to load this and get to work, without setup.
| kaishiro wrote:
| Disagree. It appears to default to your local time zone for the
| first entry, which is a sane default. If there were other
| useless (to me) defaults as well I'd have to remove them as
| visual clutter (in addition to still needing to add the time
| zones I wish to compare).
| asutekku wrote:
| common for you != common for everyone else. i live in japan, i
| would have absolutely no need for some random us / europe
| comparison
| riantogo wrote:
| Maybe the cards could get background color based on time of the
| day (e.g. blue for mid-day, dark for night etc.)
| osrec wrote:
| Might be useful to have the slider cover 3 days, rather than just
| 24h. With the single day, New York visually looks to be ahead of
| London at certain times of day (e.g from 00:00 to 05:00 UK time),
| because NY is still in its previous day.
| sampli wrote:
| This is really great! One feature I would love to see on this is
| link sharing. Just encoding data in the URL to share with others.
|
| Maybe adding a custom label to each timezone so international
| groups can easily keep track of team times!
| wsgolfer wrote:
| Second the link sharing idea!
| jh00ker wrote:
| came here to request this! Then I can share it with my company
| and we can have all our offices listed in one URL!
| bestnameever wrote:
| I use savvytime for this reason
|
| https://savvytime.com/converter/ny-new-york-city-to-ca-los-a...
| dbg31415 wrote:
| I like the way this tool looks, but I am a big fan of the "row-
| based" designs from these other tools for comparing time zones.
|
| * Every Time Zone: time zone converter, compare time zone
| difference and find best time for a meeting with one click ||
| https://everytimezone.com/
|
| * Time Converter and World Clock - Conversion at a Glance - Pick
| best time to schedule conference calls, webinars, online meetings
| and phone calls. || https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
|
| And this site has a bunch of great tools for calculating time
| between days and a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff.
|
| * Time Zone Converter - Time Difference Calculator ||
| https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
| bomewish wrote:
| Love it!
|
| Would be great if I could adjust height of the boxes to fit more
| on a page on iPhone.
| bellboy_tech wrote:
| Being in Phoenix as a remote worker for an East coast org, I love
| this. PHX does NOT do daylight savings which very few tools
| observe. TY
|
| I wish only that you would add a RESET to NOW button.
|
| Sliding to find when meetings could happen is awesome, but I keep
| wanting to reset to now.
|
| Very cool!! Firefox bookmarked.
| fedorareis wrote:
| A red reset button appears in the top right of the cards after
| you slide the slider.
| quantumsequoia wrote:
| I'm most impressed by the domain name. How much does time.fyi
| cost you?
| gostsamo wrote:
| I saw dictionary word on non main tld for something like $125
| somewhere and would bet somewhere there.
| quantumsequoia wrote:
| San Francisco seems to be missing from the cities list
| MisterSandman wrote:
| Yeah, I live in SF but it defaulted to Los Angeles for me. Same
| Time Zone, of course.
| saagarjha wrote:
| Probably only includes the standard time zone list?
| richardw wrote:
| My favourite, has website and app, is
| https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
|
| Simple no-clicking view. If I need to share a time range, it's
| easy to select.
|
| Mobile app pics, one with with range selection:
| https://imgur.com/gallery/F52vcZT
| mrg2k8 wrote:
| Nice UI, but I got used to googling "14:00 Germany time in Los
| Angeles", for example.
| dutzi wrote:
| Assuming you live in Germany you could type "14:00 in LA"
| sagarpatil wrote:
| Congratulations on the launch. Looks great! A couple of questions
| if you don't mind me asking:
|
| 1. Why did you build this tool when we have thousands of time
| zone comparison websites, apps and inbuilt functionality in
| smartphone time app?
|
| 2. Google already does this natively
|
| 3. It will be really tough to rank this on Google
|
| 4. Do you plan on monetizing this?
| jacurtis wrote:
| Not everything has to be a VC-funded startup.
|
| Some people just make stuff for fun, to learn a new skill, or
| to scratch a personal pain point.
| DonHopkins wrote:
| Because it was time.
| asutekku wrote:
| your questions are literally the reason why internet is not
| what it used to be. not everything needs to be about money,
| people can do things out of their own interest and needs
| k8sToGo wrote:
| If you look at his profile and look at his about, then you
| know why he's asking this.
| pillefitz wrote:
| Fair point. These are still valid questions whose answers
| could unblock people who are stuck in a analysis paralysis
| rogual wrote:
| > It will be really tough to rank this on Google
|
| I can't help but see this as Google's failure, not OP's.
| infradig wrote:
| Sweet, I did a CLI version of this idea in 1987 for VMS, was
| working with people in Sydney, London & Chicago and this made it
| easy to communicate.
| mrdoob2 wrote:
| Have you considered making it a PWA?
| vidbina wrote:
| Love this! Looks nice (I can't design it), works smoothly. Kudos
| on you for building something simple and just getting it out
| there.
|
| Universe knows, there are many bells and whistles you could have
| tacked on, possibly dooming this project to stay in the "project
| shelf" for a much longer time.
|
| What's your story on starting this? Needed the tool yourself and
| couldn't find anything that worked for you, was trying to learn
| new tools, lost a bet?
| devsda wrote:
| > Universe knows, there are many bells and whistles you could
| have tacked on, possibly dooming this project to stay in the
| "project shelf" for a much longer time.
|
| If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many other
| time related tools the author has plans to implement like a
| meeting planner, scheduler, calendar and pomodoro timer etc.
| I'm happy that they took the MVP approach instead of waiting
| long to launch that perfect suite.
| NarcisMirandes wrote:
| "If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many
| other time related tools the author has plans to implement"
|
| It would be good to say that this are the future features. My
| fist impression was confusion.
| nekasrbenda wrote:
| Nice (accidental/incendiary) Easter Egg - Belgrade shows up as
| "Kosovo - Belgrade". I suppose since "Kosovo is Serbia"
| it's...not...wrong...?
|
| Technically it's probably since there are two aliases for
| `Europe/Belgrade`
| ["Kosovo",["Europe/Belgrade"]]
| ["Serbia",["Europe/Belgrade"]]
| oleg_antonyan wrote:
| I've got this too. Nice trolling if it's intentional
| lovegrenoble wrote:
| The capital of Kosovo is Belgrade.
| thatwasunusual wrote:
| "Oslo, Bouvet Island." :D
| throwaway15571 wrote:
| I got the same result.
|
| Foe those that don't know, "Bouvet Island" belongs to Norway,
| and is a small island in the southern hemisphere. Oslo is NOT
| on Bouvet Island...
|
| I guess the time zone database does not handle this case well
| asimpleusecase wrote:
| Nice! I saved to my iPhone Home Screen. However, the icon was a
| black box with a white T. When I tapped to save it showed a much
| nicer black box with yellow swirl - looks like an icon file is
| missing.
| mongol wrote:
| It seems not to have knowledge about CEST - Central European
| Summer Time. I am always hesitant when using this term since many
| are unaware of it, but writing CET while refering to the current
| (summer) time is technically wrong. I wonder if the user
| interface somehow can illustrate this.
| k1t wrote:
| Can you name a country that is currently observing Central
| European Summer Time?
| rubans wrote:
| I'm guessing "no" in the winter.
| mongol wrote:
| No country. But I could not find it when I searched for it. I
| should be able to compare with it, I think.
| pillefitz wrote:
| Nice, clean UI. What's the tech stack behind?
| ankit70 wrote:
| Source code suggests Astro with React.
| kaeruct wrote:
| It says Hanoi belongs to Thailand. That can't be correct.
| jedberg wrote:
| It's because their official time zone is "Asia/Bangkok". It
| must be getting it from there.
| sneak wrote:
| There is a similar free iOS app called "Synchronize" that I use
| for the same purpose.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/synchronize/id371177261
| saboot wrote:
| Very nice. I'll list a feature I've always wanted but haven't
| seen on timezone converters.
|
| A map of timezones, which will either highlight the location
| entered, or allow you to select the timezone.
|
| Saves a few keystrokes.
| shoq wrote:
| Looks great and works smoothly! Is there some way to chose a date
| in the future?
|
| I use https://timezonewizard.com/ almost daily to find feasible
| meeting times over 3-4 timezones globally, sometimes some days in
| the future.
| wortelefant wrote:
| So after comparing time zones, which is your favorite?
| raman325 wrote:
| This is really cool! Found a small bug - when you add a second
| card, the second card displays a pill with the total time
| difference between the first card and second card. When you
| switch the order of the cards by dragging, the pill remains on
| the same card so it's basically showing the total time difference
| in reverse. Clearing the cards and starting over with the
| switched order but by creating each card again results in the
| pill being displayed on the correct card.
| finger wrote:
| That's not a bug, that's a feature. It shows the pills based on
| the highlighted card. Click a different card, and the "pills"
| change.
| gabesullice wrote:
| Can you add a service worker and manifest to make this into a
| progressive web app that works offline? If there's a GitHub, I'd
| love to help add that feature because it'd be useful to me. If
| it's not public you can find me here
| https://github.com/gabesullice
| mnafees wrote:
| This is going to be my daily driver to schedule our team
| meetings, great work! A feature request would be to give me the
| option to input the time apart from the existing slider input.
| karol wrote:
| Congrats on finishing and launching the project. It is slick! Are
| you planning to monetize?
| RichieAHB wrote:
| Nice little idea! As a slight aside I'm not sure where the
| timezone / city list has come from but it labels Hanoi as in
| Thailand (rather than Vietnam).
| throwaway15571 wrote:
| And Oslo (Norway) in Bouvet Island...
| kamranahmedse wrote:
| Thanks, this has been fixed.
| noufalibrahim wrote:
| This is very nicely done. I've been a user of world time buddy
| and i don't have complaints but this is much slicker
| pknerd wrote:
| Brilliant! Thanks for this.
|
| Being someone who lives in Asia and interacts with
| clients(potential clients) in the Americas, I often find it
| difficulty to select a timeslot for a meeting. This tool will
| help a lot.
|
| A Mac Version(Menu bar item) would be awesome
| jbverschoor wrote:
| Try the clock https://www.seense.com/the_clock/
| jbverschoor wrote:
| I just use the clock by seense.
| Simon_ORourke wrote:
| Awesome tool! Some minor feedback for what it's worth - after
| moving the slider bar to change the time, I went looking for a
| button along the top something like "Reset to Now", and it took
| me about two seconds to realize this reset button was in each
| time widget frame.
| yonatan8070 wrote:
| I started by trying to tap the local time clock at the top,
| after that I realized it's the little red reset button
| stavros wrote:
| I kind of agree that the "reset to now" button should be in the
| global context, as resetting each timezone to now separately
| doesn't make as much sense.
| Daub wrote:
| Looks very slick. Using this on an ipad. A few comment... Moving
| the time slider also moves the zone widget. It would be nice if
| night/day is indicated on the sluder, maybe using subtle colors.
| Reason: The main reason I would use such an app is to know if my
| clients are awake.
| stavros wrote:
| Oooh, that's a nice idea.
| pratik_kanthi wrote:
| This is a brilliant tool. Thanks for building.
| prameshbajra wrote:
| This looks great. Thank you for building and sharing it. I have a
| small feedback here.
|
| I entered Kathmandu, Nepal and Hamburg, Germany. The time
| difference is -4:45 hours. The app shows me -4:75h. Which I think
| is a bug?
|
| Thank you
| jakopo87 wrote:
| Tried the same and it shows "-4.75h" with a dot, not a colon.
|
| As 4.75 hours translates to 4 hours and 45 minutes, it's
| correct, maybe not intuitive at first glance.
| account-5 wrote:
| The only thing I can see missing that I would use would be the
| ability to select a date in the future or past. Now this might be
| my ignorance of the subject area but it's definitely something I
| use other services for.
| rogual wrote:
| Great work! I've looked for this kind of thing before but found
| only the usual sea of spam and semi-functional tools.
|
| Yours is really good, simple and clear.
|
| One suggestion I have is maybe show a bit more prominently if the
| dates end up being different? Could be easy to miss.
| valevk wrote:
| Nice tool, would be great if you could input other languages that
| english when searching for a location
| kidsil wrote:
| I've been using World Time Buddy for years -
| https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
|
| It allows for a calendar view and shows multiple cities together.
| It's excellent for figuring out a time slot for a team when
| everyone is living in a different timezone.
| uxcolumbo wrote:
| I was thinking of this site as well, showing the different time
| lines and how they offset according to the time difference.
| Very neat. Just couldn't remember the domain name.
|
| The design is a bit dated as it's not optimized for higher res
| screens, everything is quite small. I guess people can zoom in.
|
| How do they make money though? I don't see ads or sign up page
| for extra features. Running this service since 2011, have to
| pay for hosting fees etc.
| asnyder wrote:
| There used to be paid options. They sent a notice a couple
| years ago saying it was going completely free, but with that
| support has subsided. For example their mobile app is no
| longer compatible with latest versions of Android.
| sails wrote:
| This is very useful for scheduling, and has a lot of the
| features being requested.
| amonavis wrote:
| I bought the app long ago, but now I have a problem: their
| database isn't updated. Where I live the weekend changed from
| Fri/Sat to Sat/Sun since a year, but the app seems abandoned.
| helsinkiandrew wrote:
| Welldone, this is very useful!
|
| From my use cases (order of wantedness):
|
| 1. It would be nice to be able to type in a time rather than
| using slider.
|
| 2. A flag to say whether day light savings is in affect.
|
| 2. As well as current time what about adding other times in the
| blocks - I always need to convert 9:30, 15:30, 23:00 into local.
|
| 3. On desktop, there doesn't seem to be a reason that 12 and 24
| hour clocks could be shown at the same time?
| twald wrote:
| Very useful. Thank you! I'd suggest to place the time above the
| slider. I'm left handed and I'm covering the time when I adjust
| the slider.
| ashtronaut wrote:
| Thank you! I have replaced my previous bookmark of
| https://everytimezone.com/ with this one. Appreciate the
| simplicity of this one. :)
| mwexler wrote:
| Funny. I came to the opposite conclusion. I kept
| https://everytimezone.com/ after trying parent and a few others
| in the thread.
|
| For eyeball time picks to drive min inconvenience for a group,
| every tz (after customizing for my tz of choice) was just
| easier.
|
| Glad to have variety in this annoying problem space; more tools
| hopefully mean less bad scheduling of things.
| your_friend wrote:
| Very clever solution! Would be cool to add a color coding of the
| time, maybe same way as Apple does sun position in the weather
| app. So when you scroll time you can see where of all these
| places the sun is still up.
| dzhiurgis wrote:
| Weird use case, but some places use 12hr, some use 24hr time. You
| could likely infer that by timezone name itself?
|
| I know if I get meeting at noon or midnight - I need to triple
| check everything...
| Mikael_S wrote:
| Wow! That's one of my most loved now. Great job!
| davedx wrote:
| I'd like to be able to save :)
| dom_hutton wrote:
| The list of TZs should sort naturally, not on order of TZ
| addition.
| stavros wrote:
| I disagree, I want them shown in the order I add them, not in
| order of how far from the UK they are.
| ndom91 wrote:
| Not what I was expecting haha. Interesting implementation! Seems
| super helpful and +100 for the great domain name too.
| agvxov wrote:
| cute, good job. some color indication on the cards could be nice
| to make it more visually obvious whether its day or night
| durdn wrote:
| In the same domain I used for years timebuddy
| https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
| bbx wrote:
| Very neat. Reminds me of the Overlap app by Moleskine Studio:
| https://moleskinestudio.com/support/overlap/introduction/ove...
|
| Great UX but only available as an app. You have the advantage of
| being on any platform and able to create share links.
| humbleferret wrote:
| This is really useful and feels slick! I've been using
| https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to see time
| zone differences, which seems clunky in comparison.
| airstrike wrote:
| You should be using
| https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html which is
| the exact same thing (arguably slightly better with just one
| slider and color-coded "good" and "bad" times when the
| timezones overlap)
|
| See e.g.
| https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20...
| LiamMcCalloway wrote:
| Super nice. A feature request: for each time zone, show the
| offset to sun time. Helps with the question: will 8am be like I
| expect it to be ?
|
| Useful for outdoors activities.
| jbs769 wrote:
| Seems many people have ideas for adding features. But nobody is
| really talking about whether they are using it in their day to
| day (or would use it).
|
| My primary use case would be setting up a meeting across
| timezones, but my calendar app already shows me overlapping
| times.
|
| Or knowing what time it is for family or a friend, but then that
| becomes second nature if you've been in different timezones for a
| while.
|
| Or just seeing what time it is somewhere right now, but phones
| have multiple clocks, or a "what time is it in x?" search answers
| the question.
|
| If the many suggested features are added, would you use it? How
| will this help you?
| jayceedenton wrote:
| If you work with people across multiple timezones, it's really
| useful to be able to open a screen with a set of clocks and
| glance at the time in every relevant timezone.
|
| If I just have https://time.fyi/timezones bookmarked, it seems
| to remember the timezones that are important to me. Definitely
| convenient and far easier than doing multiple searches or using
| a phone's multiple clocks(?).
|
| This site is useful enough and it's a nice execution.
| sfox100 wrote:
| Love this, and will use this daily
| hmcamp wrote:
| I like this and it's immediately usable. May I ask you to make it
| so that I can reorder the boxes. Also could I have an option to
| have shorter boxes so that I can view 4 time zones without the
| need to scroll on a mobile screen?
| b0ner_t0ner wrote:
| It's already draggable for me on desktop, not sure for mobile.
| out_of_protocol wrote:
| Looks great! Well, except on mobile it wastes a lot of vertical
| space, able to fit only two records on a screen.
|
| https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0...
|
| https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0...
| erikig wrote:
| Same here, I use the iPhone clock app and
| https://whattimeis.com but they've both got progressively worse
| at utilizing screen real estate.
| jalict wrote:
| Would love to see pr. timezone AM/PM and Military time toggle. I
| personally not figured out how to mentally convert from one to
| another and usually this is one of my challenges as well.
|
| I support the link sharing as well. Perfect for events, meetings
| and the like.
|
| So good, very easy to use and not to much other stuff going on.
| Great job and super domainname.
| Kwpolska wrote:
| There is a 12/24 hour toggle. (It defaults to the wrong one,
| BTW.)
| jalict wrote:
| I meant pr. timezone toggle! The current one is global if I
| am not mistaken?
|
| So I could have my own local time in military time and the
| one(s) I am converting to, in AM/PM.
| frail_figure wrote:
| I was just thinking that. Why would the 12hr one be the
| default? The tool looks slick in general, however!
| dmd wrote:
| I'd love to see this with sun position. Maybe even change the
| brightness of the square too. Then you could visually see when
| all your meeting participants are in daylight.
| simonjgreen wrote:
| Love this. A link generator to share a state would be fantastic.
| aprdm wrote:
| this is great, will definitely be using it
| edotrajan wrote:
| I believe I have already seen this UI recently at
|
| https://www.timezones.digital
|
| ---
|
| Interesting info about the domain,
|
| it was regiesterd first in 2015, and has alredy been renewed till
| 2029-09-02 with cloudflare registrar. It's purchase price was
| also not a premium at just $18
| Bishonen88 wrote:
| Seems one was used as more than just inspiration for the other
| for my taste...
| airstrike wrote:
| interestingly, that one misnames Rio de Janeiro as "Vila Rio de
| Janeiro" which is hilarious, considering the Rio metro area has
| ~12M people, so a bit bigger than my idea of a village
|
| I'm not a fan of the design, tbh. I see no reason why these
| need to be cards, which actually forces the sliders to be next
| to each other (rather than below each other or combined into a
| single slider)
| codetrotter wrote:
| Your link also has an extra feature that the OP does not.
|
| When I open https://www.timezones.digital/ it asks permission
| to get my current location and then displays the time for my
| location. And it even got the city name correct. This is great
| on mobile.
|
| Whereas https://time.fyi/timezones does not currently request
| access to location and instead uses the location of my IP
| address. Which in my case is the location of my ISP and not of
| myself. Using the name of the city my ISP is in, which is
| halfway across the country from me.
| abecedarius wrote:
| Getting a location permissions popup the instant you first
| load a page is an annoyance, imo. Friendlier to leave that as
| an option you can choose if it looks worth it.
| majke wrote:
| I think the date selector is a must. My biggest timezone
| confusion happens during these two weeks when the US changes the
| daylight and the EU is not changed yet. So... during the two
| weeks in a year 9:00am SF time is not 18:00 EU time.
| hackdads wrote:
| Yes, same for me! Being able to see not just gmt-5 but also
| standard vs daylight would be excellent!
| palemoonale wrote:
| I second this, having to work with multiple TZ and calculate
| timelines as UTC.
|
| Btw: Yours is one rare example where both domain and TLD are
| simply fitting, thanks!
| thunfischtoast wrote:
| https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY
| ruszki wrote:
| Especially when my weekly meeting changes in my local time
| because of this. It was very confusing at first.
| prakhar897 wrote:
| The tool is great!!
|
| Unfortunately, almost none in general public will lay eyes upon
| this.
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=time+zone+calculator&oq=time...
|
| You can either fill your site with SEO keywords and pay/work for
| backlinks. OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites. True
| tragedy of commons.
| dspillett wrote:
| _> You can either [...] SEO [...] OR die out in the vast ocean
| of other sites._
|
| Not a problem if you aren't playing that game.
|
| I've got a few things out three that probably aren't listed
| anywhere (they won't be anywhere that respects the robots.txt
| equivalent of "go forth and fornicate"!). They are there for
| me, friends, family, or to refer people to when relevant. Heck
| I might even mention one on public forums occasionally either
| due to relevance or just for a little mild ego-stroke. But I
| don't care whether or not they are listed in the first page of
| Google/Bing/Kagi/... so the general public can easily find
| them.
|
| Admittedly the general public likely aren't even looking for
| them, I'm sure they are well served elsewhere, but that is
| beside the point.
|
| Being massively popular doesn't necessarily imply fame &
| fortune. It might instead be fame and needing-to-find-a-way-to-
| pay-for-resources-to-keep-stuff-running-under-high-traffic (and
| dealing-with-stupid-emails-from-people-who-don't-know-which-
| elbow-they-are-sat-on!).
| ghaff wrote:
| Some attention is better than no attention but monetization/a
| side hustle/etc. just isn't a big deal for a lot of people
| and honestly isn't a real option in a lot of contexts.
| sophyphreak wrote:
| Love this. Simple. Works. Definitely will use. Thank you!!
| iask wrote:
| This is great! It might be nice to see - dragging the slider
| increase/decrease by 15 mins (current) and tapping should
| increase/decrease by 1 min.
| NarcisMirandes wrote:
| I love it. The best I have tried so far
| muhammadusman wrote:
| great domain, easy to remember, I'll be adding this to my list of
| dev tools I use alongside https://devina.io/ and
| https://www.omnicalculator.com/
| Vicinity9635 wrote:
| For comparison I've been using https://everytimezone.com for
| years
| getlawgdon wrote:
| Well done! I'd use this over what's out there. Suggestions: 1. On
| mobile, it's hard to see more than 2 times without scrolling. I
| think compress the vertical space more 2. Might be nice to share
| a link with a configured set.
| stclaus wrote:
| Only iOS, but one of my essentials is Clocker
| (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111)
|
| Essentially it does the same thing
| ascorbic wrote:
| There's a good Mac version of Clocker too
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111?mt=12
| orenlindsey wrote:
| Very well designed. I'd recommend saving the current state in the
| URL parameters, so you can share it (or save the link for
| yourself).
|
| Also, open-sourcing it would be cool.
| epmaybe wrote:
| This reminds me of https://timezen.com/
| eirikbakke wrote:
| Bug report: Typing Oslo, Bergen, or Trondheim shows "Bouvet
| Island" instead of "Norway". (Bouvet Island, while Norwegian
| territory, is an uninhabited arctic island.)
| kamranahmedse wrote:
| I just deployed the fix for this.
| SashaSirotkin wrote:
| This is very helpful! Often I need to coordinate meeting times
| across multiple timezones and this will safe me a lot of
| headache.
|
| It would be nice if it was day light savings aware. Even just
| having a tooltip per timezone block which lists the changeover
| dates would be huge
| jsf01 wrote:
| This is so intuitive. Huge props for coming up with the first ui
| for time zone comparison that has actually made sense to me
| immediately. Clicking a zone to make it the base, which all
| others get compared to, was a great choice. Bookmarking this for
| sure.
| MaximilianEmel wrote:
| You should make it clearer when there's a day difference, as
| well.
| tomosterlund wrote:
| Amazingly pretty! I'm not international enough to have a personal
| use case for this, but I admire the skill that went into this.
| Are you open sourcing this at some point?
| xpld wrote:
| I made one during covid as well to help me schedule meetings. Its
| been on app stores, but i made it mostly for personal use.
| timezonecarousel.com
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