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Re: Time Zones

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Post by golden_apples »

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 thought I recognized this - wasn't something very similar to this used on the demo documents for the scripty framework a year or so ago?

Its a nice looking finished product, I'd like to go back and see how the framework looks now...

Re: Time Zones

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Post by jonathanberger »

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.

For yet another timezone tool, here's the time at 10pm UTC-6 in your local time: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=10pm&tz=GMT-6

Re: Time Zones

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Post by shalmanese »

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…

Glad it's being improved upon, I've been using it regularly for over a year now!

Re: Time Zones

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Post by wauter »

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…

Awesome! That's Thomas Fuchs from Scriptaculous, no? Scriptaculous is what caused me to learn JS, and by exention, to go from just dabbling with HTML-only static pages to actually doing web developing (which is now my career).

I love that one-page design for Freckle, but you might want to add a trial sign-up button at the top too for us impatient types! (I know it's not the 'real' landing page which is letsfreckle.com, curious as to why you would point us to this smallish version? A/B testing experiment?)

Everytimezone looks awesome! My remarks on the design, but I understand it's still a work in progress of course: - don't just show cities, but also zones like 'Central European Time' or 'GMT' or 'Central time'. - in the cities, include their timezone (GMT-1, GMT+3, etc) - why just limit it to 'know'? When scheduling a meeting for within a couple of days I think it would be cool if I could scroll to the right to see how things are in that day. Or perhaps provide an input field to set the 'central' day viewed in the tool or something.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by Nick_C »

YmMot wrote: post #74

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 i…

> I have a cron script

Neat. Any chance of you putting it up somewhere?

Re: Time Zones

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Post by TheSOB88 »

ahoyhere wrote: post #76
leviathan wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just make sure the first open is in a new tab!
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