Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
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Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
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Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#2Thanks in advance for any feedback on the site.
Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#3It works correctly. It works as expected. I think it's great.
A shorter domain name would have been nice though.
Also - does it automatically take daylight savings time into account?
Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#4It works correctly. It works as expected. I think it's great. A shorter domain name would have been nice though. Also - does it automatically take daylight savings time into account?
It does. For example, right now Australian times properly incorporate DST.
The domain name was optimized for Google queries where it's important to have exact search terms in the name itself. Agreed that it's annoyingly long but I expect people to find it through Google with something close to that query.
Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#5I don't mean to jack the thread here, but I did something similar over the weekend that was a lot of fun. I cloned and then built upon a local system here in Honolulu that lets you see when buses are coming to a stop. I originally wanted to build an Android app but realized that I could do the same thing faster with my current skill set (web apps) thanks to some of the Geolocation features of HTML5. Plus, both me and my girlfriend can use it (she's on an iphone)!
Here it is - http://thebus.ws/about/
For those not familiar with Hawaii... try some street names like King, Queen, Bishop, Kapiolani. If you're on island the locate button will find your location thru browser api's and then load stops near you. Stops right by my place would be 2088, 306, and 405 (you can search for those numbers).
BTW, I really like what you did :) It's very simple and looks pretty good to boot. I have a client in Sweden right now, so this comes in handy!
Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#6I'd add a date to the timezone converter. For example - if it is 10pm in Toronto on the 1st, then it is 8am somewhere in India on the 2nd.
Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#7Great, but if remaking Basecamp or StackOverflow also just takes a weekend, you should have been able to do this in about an hour.
Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#8I'd add a date to the timezone converter. For example - if it is 10pm in Toronto on the 1st, then it is 8am somewhere in India on the 2nd.
Thanks for the suggestion. It's true omitting dates can affect some conversions. I left them out for speed/simplicity but might have be the wrong tradeoff.
Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#9It does not seem to do anything without Javascript and times are always displayed in the (to me) awkward AM/PM format instead of 24 hour. The first is probably of no matter to you but how about a toggle button for the latter?
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#10That's great! Your are absolutely correct, most sites seem to originate in pre-2000.
Just two additional ideas:
For the problem you specified I did find a interface which gives you a day view of both destinations with the corresponding times on both sides, and colored backgrounds (green for good meeting times, yellow for too early or too late or midday and red for night) so that you can easily find out an optimal meeting time (I guess it was possible to add more timezones to it), however I cannot remember the site.
For the interface you created I guess it would be nice to add an analog clock over the input, which can be changed via dragging the hands to the specified time and the other clock updates it's time in real-time.