Another very nice web for timezones is http://tmzns.com.
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#12This is gorgeous.
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#13I would still prefer to have the option to select the timezone. Sometimes I want to attend some workshops that announce the time in one of the US timezones and its always difficult to do the conversion.
What would be ideal in this case is a browser add-on or a bookmarklet that enables dynamic conversion.
The add-on would be simpler, as a text-select and right click could show the selected time in your own time zone in the right-click menu.
It's something I've missed every single time some press conference or event is announced, and it just says 12:00 EST.
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#14I like Time.gov, personally; it was the first site I ever found around this concept and so it has a soft spot.
I keep finding all my physical atomic clock synced clocks (yes, I have more than one, they are cheap these days) disagreeing, sometimes by 2 seconds or more, which makes me laugh (great ideas ruined by poor implementation). I find many of the web sites (listed in comments or the original post) to also differ, perhaps for similar reasons of implementation choices.
I would presume all the sites work off various implementations of NTP, http://www.ntp.org/ plus some trusted source.
I guess my question is: has anyone found a site which is really, really accurate by reducing all the latency and lag, so what you see on the screen really is, to whatever precision, accurate? And would said person have access to a really good source for the comparison point? I don't seem to have one. Yes, I should have stopped at 3 so that I could pick the 2 closest ones (like the old saying: 1 clock is unsure, 2 clocks are worse, but 3 at least lets you make a decision)
I wonder, would you need to have NTP on the client side synced to a trusted source (say, in java, flash, or javascript) to get a good reading? Any server serving over HTTP induces lag, I would think, and NTP is supposed to account for transmission delays, or so I recall.
Thanks for sharing, another interesting time site to add to the collection.
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#15Nice, however on my Chrome Mac there's a flash each second with the re-render.
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#16This is exactly what I wanted. I used to google everytime to find time. Not anymore, and it looks cool too.
Same, Google just lost a few searches a week from me :)
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#17Exactly what I needed. For the last few weeks, I've been trying to increase my productivity by getting rid of time tracking. So I decided to hide my computer's clock. Sometimes, like when I have an appointment, I still need to check what time it is. Googling "time" doesn't always work (I don't know why exactly). So I bookmarked this site [1] but the information density is so high that I need to scan the page in order…
Accidentally found this, but tap the time to make the rest of the page fade away. Or go to http://time.is/just
When i click on the time the google +1 button doesnt go away. Anyone else?
Firefox latest.
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#18Exactly what I needed. For the last few weeks, I've been trying to increase my productivity by getting rid of time tracking. So I decided to hide my computer's clock. Sometimes, like when I have an appointment, I still need to check what time it is. Googling "time" doesn't always work (I don't know why exactly). So I bookmarked this site [1] but the information density is so high that I need to scan the page in order…
I'd favor this now, but for Google I find the phrase " time now" works more consistently than just "time".
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Accidentally found this, but tap the time to make the rest of the page fade away. Or go to http://time.is/just
When i click on the time the google +1 button doesnt go away. Anyone else? Firefox latest.
Same here on Chrome. I would bet it's related to a unique feature of the Google+ button: it shows your Google account info on hover.