Time Zones • Hacker News Board

Re: Time Zones

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Post by silvestrov » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:28 PM UTC

ch0wn wrote: post #8

I would agree if there was an option for the 24 hours format.

In fact, if it was the best timezone converter ever, it would know my country uses 24 hour format and automatically select it. The server would be able to know my country by my ip so this would just be another attribute in the json ajax call.

Re: Time Zones

#32

Post by paraschopra » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:29 PM UTC

Sorry, this is way too confusing. What I like is a simple tool like http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/

Re: Time Zones

#33

Post by ttt_ » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:32 PM UTC

It would be nicer if it had and actual globe with the highlighted zone.

Re: Time Zones

#34

Post by pinaceae » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:34 PM UTC

time.is does it better in their "here & there" function. choose a few cities, shows a tabular comparison of all timeslots. this is what you need to determine the best time slot for a telco with multiple international participants.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by zeroathome » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:34 PM UTC

I also think it's too confusing. I prefer http://time.is over it.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by mcphilip » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:37 PM UTC

tomelders wrote: post #19

Am I going out of my mind, or is this not a year old already? I'm sure there was an article on the front page where they talked about the build and stuff like local storage on iPad. (it started life as an iPad web app). I'm aware that "dupes" are bound to occur, but this was big news last time around and I'm surprised no one remembers it.

Yes, I remember this when it hit Ajaxian. It's worth noting that the code was done by Thomas Fuchs, the man behind scriptaculous. A true pioneer in Javascript programming.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by zoobert » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:44 PM UTC

It is nice but you would like to have the possibility to choose your own towns. Often for example I want to know what time it is in Seattle compared to the time in Frankfurt where I live. If it can be customized, it will be a great tool.

For the moment I prefer www.time.is which takes a different approach but what I want.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by madrobby » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:45 PM UTC

I'm the developer of the site. Just a quick note, on iPad/iPhone and Android you have the option to customize the list of time zones shown; and we'll add more time zones in the future (and probably some sort of city search and custom labels). There will also be some sort of calendar to select a date in the future, so you can link to specific date with the correct timezone offsets for that date set (because those change with DST).

Re: Time Zones

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Post by damoncali » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:49 PM UTC

Google also works well.

http://www.google.com/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&...

Re: Time Zones

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Post by gerrit » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:54 PM UTC

GavinB wrote: post #7

This looks great, and I love the slider. Maybe I'm just not seeing the option, but I need to be able to add and remove time zones. A lot of the confusion of these tools is having to ignore the many cities that don't concern you. Saying the weekday on each would be great too (ex: Friday, March 21). When you're working with Australia it can be hard to remember that they're almost a full day ahead.

you can click on that gear icon in the top right to add/remove cities. The list of available ones is quite limited tough, and it’s very US-Centric