I built an iPhone as a weekend project a year or so ago. http://www.timesliderapp.com (free). In a similar vein to this one... the few people who've downloaded it seem to like it :)
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#62This 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.
Totally agree with you. You can customize the displayed cities on the iPhone/iPad version, and that'll be on the "desktop" version RSN.
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#63I also think it's too confusing. I prefer http://time.is over it.
I guess preference is, well, a matter of preference, but confusion and clutter is usually not debatable, and the way I see it, everytimezone does beat time.is in that regard. Time.is is a whole lot of text with no real reference to what's ahead of you and behind you in "timezones".
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#64Why does every HN story get reposted every 6 months or so?
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#65Glad 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…
I love it. But I have a minor nitpick: it pollutes the browser history too much; every single action or click introduces a new history link, I had to press back about 20 times before I came back to HN.
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#66Such a brilliant way to market your product, LetsFreckle. Better than any adwords or facebook ads campaign I'm sure. Hope you're tracking conversions from this.
Content marketing at its finest. Great job.
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#67I'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 chan…
Can you add Seoul, Korea? I will use your site all the time then!
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#68This is a great repurposed version of the Hipmunk interface, Surprised no one else has made the connection! FlickMunk won the techcrunch disrupt (hipmunk for movies) - I wonder how many other applications for this interface style will pop up, it's pretty versatile.
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#69Am 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.
Here's a previous discussion, though it was from almost two years ago, so I could see how many people wouldn't remember (or weren't here two years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1264554
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#70It seems really finicky, at least on Firefox (it keeps jumping back to the current time). You also can't add or remove cities/time zones, so overall it seems pretty useless.
Yeah, the jumpy thing really makes it kind of painful to use, even though I love the interface otherwise.