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Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#11

Post by pieter » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 12:23 PM UTC

Looks very nice. The only problem I had is that it's not clear when you load the page that you can actually interact with it. Some people might go away confused and think this tool can't convert specific times

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#12

Post by kasterma » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 12:29 PM UTC

Site does not work for me, but I have been using foxclocks for a long time:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#13

Post by frederickcook » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 12:29 PM UTC

mhansen wrote: post #8

Broken on both the latest Firefox and dev build of Chrome on Ubuntu.

Only a black page for both my Mac Chrome 4.0.249.30 and Safari 4.0.3, but works on my Firefox 3.6.3 (OS X 10.6.2).

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#14

Post by snitko » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 12:34 PM UTC

Maybe I'm just retarded, but I spent 1 minute on this website and couldn't figure out how to use it. Too many elements jumping and shining blew my mind. What I really want is two text fields, where I can type in cities and get the difference and local time in each of those cities. That's it. My guess is that people really like the design, but I can't see how this is more convenient than typing "time in San-Francisco" in Google.

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#15

Post by frou_dh » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 12:51 PM UTC

mhansen wrote: post #8

Broken on both the latest Firefox and dev build of Chrome on Ubuntu.

For me it is fancy and graphical on Mac/Safari-Latest and all-text on Win/Firefox-Latest.

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#16

Post by CGamesPlay » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 1:37 PM UTC

This is very cool, but can you add a field to manually select a date in a particular time zone, as well as a current time button?

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#17

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 1:48 PM UTC

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Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#18

Post by audionerd » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 2:32 PM UTC

Reminds me of Bret Victor's BART train schedule redesign: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#case_study_train_schedules

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#19

Post by bdotdub » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 2:40 PM UTC

pieter wrote: post #11

Looks very nice. The only problem I had is that it's not clear when you load the page that you can actually interact with it. Some people might go away confused and think this tool can't convert specific times

A couple of days ago it just followed your mouse wherever it went so you didn't need to drag anything. I think I prefer that than what the interaction is now

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

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Post by wallflower » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 2:42 PM UTC

audionerd wrote: post #18

Reminds me of Bret Victor's BART train schedule redesign: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#case_study_train_schedules

Beautiful. Thank you for posting that as I doubt I would have come across that. As someone who rides public transit 5 or more days a week, that is a very useful visualization.