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I was looking for a site this simple just yesterday. Thanks for building it! 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.
Thanks in advance for any feedback on the site.
I'm commenting here because I'm very interested in how this small project works out for you.
Nice work - bookmarked. Minor things: * 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wasn't found - right now if I type the name of an unrecognised place then it isn't clear that the time displayed is no longer valid * optional vertical layout for phones, and (to go with that) offline support?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…
I second this. I tried to type in Zurich at first but the time didn't change and there was no error message either.
Great job though. Very useful tool. Bookmarked.
Like you mentioned in your announcement, this tool seems like it's primarily useful for (important) business. Is there anything you can do that would make me feel assured that the conversion is accurate? I'm 90% sure that everything is perfect, but that's not really good enough. I'd be much more inclined to use the tool if I knew I could trust it.
This obviously is only for the current time, and you'll find that it doesn't work for everywhere. Also I've encountered occasional 'outages' where the time results for reliable locations aren't posted in your search results. I guess the applet gets disengaged occasionally due to back-end business.
So while I see the simplifying assumption that says "I could do that in one weekend" and that it's really not that simple. There's the other side of the coin. Maybe some ideas don't need to be so complicated. We evolved our game idea three times that weekend as we completed something we saw what was boring or was failing and modified it.
In both our case and the guy above, we aren't planning to continue the game. I know I tend to sit and idle on ideas for months or years at a time. This is a terrible thing to do. Why not, for the cost of one weekend decide to throw it in the trash and never think of it again. One weekend is way less than months and months of planning and task lists and bug trackers and code repositories... etc etc.
Edit: In case anyone is interested you can find our game on http://globalgamejam.com called "Maid of Dishonor" or on our site, http://tosos.com under the "Unity Games" page.
This made me want want to release my syllable counter on it's own domain because it beats the top google results. Only problem is whether or not there's any utility to it.
But once again, building a widget in a weekend is very different than building a full product, in particular if you include an actual business model or community surrounding that product.
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.
I think that the problem is that we skipped the "Daylight saving time" this year (2009-2010), so we are at GMT-03:00.