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Re: Time Zones

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Post by madrobby »

ben0x539 wrote: post #70
tallanvor wrote: post #25

It 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.

That's a bug the site has with Firefox, which we haven't gotten around to fix yet. It does work properly in Chrome/Safari/IE, tho.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by YmMot »

This is neat. It reminds me a bit of part of my Conky setup. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/zi1Ub. It's not as accurate, but it gives me an idea of what time of day it is everywhere.

I have a cron script that runs every hour that pulls in sat images of cloud cover, the earth, and then the daylight lines and composites them together with imagemagick. I got the script from a lifehacker article where they used it for wallpaper.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by ahoyhere »

leviathan wrote: post #65
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…

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.

Thanks for your feedback. We'll look into how we can make the links copy & pasteable without that annoying side effect.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by ColinWright »

ahoyhere wrote: post #75

Question: Why did the title of this post change? Was it the original submitter who changed it? If no, who? https://img.skitch.com/20120321-81k4yxffg161n1rh9f2dc4kf56.p...

I have no official standing on this site, but reading the guidelines:

  > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, ...
  > You can make up a new title if you want, but if you
  > put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may
  > rewrite it.
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