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One suggestion would be to have the colon automatically inserted at the third position from the right. I'd like to be able to type 930 or 1425 without having to take my hand off of the number pad.
Very nice. Here's a feature suggestion: allow me to specify the two locations in the URL so I can create bookmarks to pairs that I use all the time (e.g. Hamburg/NewYork, Hamburg/SanFrancisco...).
I actually had the exact same problem and I was recently speaking to a friend from google and asked him to implement this as part of their search engine (i.e. just like the calculator, but for time zones) -- he didn't see the need for such a thing.
Here is my use case which doesn't work: conference deadlines. Please tell me what this:
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT −5:00)
translates to in my local time. Note that entering the date in your app does nothing, even if you split EST from the rest.
While I half agree with what you did, I think you're a step away from perfectness (see bellow) :) I actually had the exact same problem and I was recently speaking to a friend from google and asked him to implement this as part of their search engine (i.e. just like the calculator, but for time zones) -- he didn't see the need for such a thing. Here is my use case which doesn't work: conference deadlines. Please tell…
Say you're in PST: put on the right hand side 11:59pm and EST --> 8:59pm that same day.
Say you're in, oh I don't know, Nagoya: same thing on the right hand side --> 1:59pm the next day (the 5th)
Wolfram Alpha has an _awesome_ time zone converter, http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10+am+EST
Make it obvious you can type place names. People are stupid. They'll expect a dropdown, not typing.
Second time this was mentioned so I'll definitely give it some thought.
Alternately, simply showing a world map graphic would work quite simply. There aren't that many time zones.
$> env TZ=US/Eastern date
Thu Feb 18 11:15:01 EST 2010
$> env TZ=GMT date
Thu Feb 18 16:15:41 GMT 2010