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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

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Post by jonathanberger »

patio11 wrote: post #64
voidpointer wrote: post #62

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...).

Psst: this can help you for SEO if you do it right. (Though you'd have to add a bit of content/links to have a hope of getting all of them indexed.)

Interesting ideas - I was trying to think about creative but still useful SEO techniques... something Yelp-like. This might be it.

Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge

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Post by jonathanberger »

megamark16 wrote: post #60

Everyone should go to google and search for "time zone converter", than go to the bottom and choose "Add a result", and paste in the url for this page :-) It couldn't hurt.

Haha - I wouldn't complain... I've got a few ideas around SEO and a few more popped up here, so I'll see what I can do to make the site easy to find with Google again later on.

Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge

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Post by jonathanberger »

scscsc wrote: post #66

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…

The mention of the specific use case is helpful. I assume you'd want as output not only the time, but also the corresponding date.

I want to think carefully about how to add dates because I'm trying to keep it simple and quick.

Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge

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Post by jonathanberger »

neeleshs wrote: post #71
nopal wrote: post #61

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.

Or just be able to type 930pm/1035am without worrying about the colon

Hm, interesting requests. I had other similar requests via e-mail for auto-colon-insertion so might prioritize this.

Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge

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Post by chrischen »

jonathanberger wrote: post #41
chrischen wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you make this a dashboard widget?

Not a bad idea. It would be handy to have it a keypress away but the benefits from my point of view (the developer's) are almost too great in keeping it a webpage: easier to update, ability to add ads, wider audience, etc.

Frankly making it a webpage is a pretty big inconvenience to me (and I'm sure many others too) because my bookmarks bar is pretty full, as well as my bookmarks. This just seems like a natural dashboard widget. Doesn't windows 7 support widgets too now?

Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge

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Post by studentrob »

vishaldpatel wrote: post #6

I'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.

I agree! Date would be useful. People worldwide refer to historical documents in our system by their timezone, and I have to convert them to EST in order to find them. Sometimes I use the CPAN library Date::Manip or the Unix date command to do datetime conversion or math. But your website is much simpler and better than each of us coming up with such solutions on our own..
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