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Thanks in advance for any feedback on the site.
Can you make this a dashboard widget?
That'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 mee…
Thanks, appreciate the compliment and ideas. I do remembering coming across that other site too. I've been looking for a fun graphic or animation to jazz up the UI (I believe in making products "fun") so maybe the analog clock idea is it.
Make it obvious you can type place names. People are stupid. They'll expect a dropdown, not typing.
Small feature request: It would be nice to enter IATA airport code instead of city name.
Even if you're not using PHP I highly recommend reading Derick Rethans's slides on Date and Time. There's lots of good information there, especially about all the various quirks with timezones. http://derickrethans.nl/talks/time-zendcon9.pdf , you may even be able to find a video of him presenting this.
* support for alternate names (e.g. The Hague vs. Den Haag)
* some way of knowing when a city wasn't found - right now if I type the name of an unrecognised place then it isn't clear that the time displayed is no longer valid
* optional vertical layout for phones, and (to go with that) offline support? Perhaps not quite so minor, I'll admit ;)
Oh, and re. the "programmer-friendly" comment in your article - I'm one and I don't find those sites at all friendly...
Apparently 9:31 AM in Dublin time is NaN:aN PM in Dubai time... Besides that, its a nice app. EDIT: Since I got downvoted for this, let me rephrase in terms of a bug report: My local time is Dublin, Ireland (so UTC) and I entered 9:30 AM as the local time. Then I changed Greenwich to Dubai . The updating was pretty slow, so before it completed, I changed the local time to 9:31 and the output I got was NaN:aN PM . I'm…
It 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.
This is the best timezone converter I've ever seen. Nice work. Though really, I'm surprised Google hasn't added timezone conversion to their various measurement converters. I really just want a single text field that takes input in the format "[time/date] in [location/timezone]." For example, "1:30am PST in UTC" or "Tuesday 5pm in Paris."