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Re: Time Zones

#41

Post by gerrit »

gerrit wrote: post #40
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

on second inspection, that “gear icon” only appears when looking at it on the iPad.

Re: Time Zones

#42

Post by lbotos »

gerrit wrote: post #41
gerrit wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

on second inspection, that “gear icon” only appears when looking at it on the iPad.

I see it on my iPhone as well.

Re: Time Zones

#43

Post by ahoyhere »

Glad you guys like it. I designed it, my husband Thomas Fuchs built it.

I designed it this way because none of the time zone tools out there reflect the actual nature of time (zones): simultaneous, overlapping lines thru time. ETZ doesn't just give you the answer, it helps you create a useful model of understanding to take with you & use even when you're not looking at ETZ.

We've been slowly improving it, so expect more options for customizing the tz's you see & static links to times in the future, etc.

EDIT: if you like the design of ETZ, you will probably love Freckle, which is our time tracking / productivity tool -- all about making your data painless to get, then super useful & actionable: http://letsfreckle.com/startups/

Re: Time Zones

#44

Post by slowpoke »

Fargren wrote: post #23

This doesn't solve my main gripe with most time converters. I normally don't want the time in Vienna, I want the time at UST-6. My common use case is that I find out an event will start streaming at, say, 10 PM UST-6 and all I know is my clock is EST-3. If I don't know what country uses UST-6, this converter is next to useless for me. My problem is with multiple standards, not with visualization.

I don't know who thought of the whole EST, UST and other nonsense, anyways. Why not just use GMT? At least you can easily convert that.

I prefer using UTC, myself. I think it's the way of the future. Timezones have long since been obsolete with the advent of a globalized world, not to mention that they are an unholy mess. UTC is universal.

So while we aren't going to switch to UTC for a while, I would very much thank you if you'd use UTC on websites and other internet related services. It simplifies things for everyone and will drive adoption forward.

Re: Time Zones

#45

Post by franze »

ahoyhere wrote: post #43

Glad you guys like it. I designed it, my husband Thomas Fuchs built it. I designed it this way because none of the time zone tools out there reflect the actual nature of time (zones): simultaneous, overlapping lines thru time. ETZ doesn't just give you the answer, it helps you create a useful model of understanding to take with you & use even when you're not looking at ETZ. We've been slowly improving it, so expect m…

>static links to times in the future this would be awesome, sharing of dates is the one feature missing form this cool tool (which made it into my bookmarks toolbar by the way, next to gmail and basecamp)

Re: Time Zones

#46

Post by mrud »

atlbeer wrote: post #11

I travel a lot on business and have been using this tool for a while. The main consumer problem it solves for me is the "I'm in Barcelona on Tuesday and need a conference call between Atlanta and Ukraine. What is a time that's workable for everyone" It's indispensable for that problem for me. Filtering TZ and adding TZ would be a nice additional feature though.

Have a look at http://worldtimebuddy.com/ - i am using it for exactly your use-case. It is really convenient to only display some specific time zones and search for a specific timezone, country or city.

Re: Time Zones

#47

Post by mrud »

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.

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ offers exactly this. It allows you to search for cities/timezones, shows weekdays, native time format (am/pm or 24hour depending on the timezone) and you can easily select a specific date for the comparison

Re: Time Zones

#48

Post by atlbeer »

swah wrote: post #17
atlbeer wrote: post #11

I travel a lot on business and have been using this tool for a while. The main consumer problem it solves for me is the "I'm in Barcelona on Tuesday and need a conference call between Atlanta and Ukraine. What is a time that's workable for everyone" It's indispensable for that problem for me. Filtering TZ and adding TZ would be a nice additional feature though.

So how do you find the cities unlisted?

Usually just mentally add the +1/-1 in my head where needed

It's a pain but, it's better than doing all the math

Re: Time Zones

#49

Post by atlbeer »

mrud wrote: post #46
atlbeer wrote: post #11

I travel a lot on business and have been using this tool for a while. The main consumer problem it solves for me is the "I'm in Barcelona on Tuesday and need a conference call between Atlanta and Ukraine. What is a time that's workable for everyone" It's indispensable for that problem for me. Filtering TZ and adding TZ would be a nice additional feature though.

Have a look at http://worldtimebuddy.com/ - i am using it for exactly your use-case. It is really convenient to only display some specific time zones and search for a specific timezone, country or city.

Ok... this may actually be better

Really digging it so far

Re: Time Zones

#50

Post by ahoyhere »

franze wrote: post #45
ahoyhere wrote: post #43

Glad you guys like it. I designed it, my husband Thomas Fuchs built it. I designed it this way because none of the time zone tools out there reflect the actual nature of time (zones): simultaneous, overlapping lines thru time. ETZ doesn't just give you the answer, it helps you create a useful model of understanding to take with you & use even when you're not looking at ETZ. We've been slowly improving it, so expect m…

>static links to times in the future this would be awesome, sharing of dates is the one feature missing form this cool tool (which made it into my bookmarks toolbar by the way, next to gmail and basecamp)

Looks like Thomas hacked it in this morning. Click the "link to this page" in the top right. It doesn't add it to your clipboard or anything but you can c&p from the address bar.
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