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Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

#32
If you're one of those "give me a terminal or give me death" master race kind of person, then I have a little shell script I use for this:

  % tz
  US West        18:39 -0800 PST
  US East        21:39 -0500 EST
  UTC            02:39 +0000 UTC
  Ireland/UK     02:39 +0000 GMT
  West Europe    03:39 +0100 CET
  New Zealand    15:39 +1300 NZDT
  
  Current        02:39 +0000 GMT
  
  % tz 18:00
  US West        10:00 -0800 PST
  US East        13:00 -0500 EST
  UTC            18:00 +0000 UTC
  Ireland/UK     18:00 +0000 GMT
  West Europe    19:00 +0100 CET
  New Zealand    07:00 +1300 NZDT
  
  Current        18:00 +0000 GMT
I find it's pretty convenient anyway.

https://github.com/arp242/dotfiles/blob/master/local/script/...

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

#36

I've been a big fan of worldtimebuddy[1] for a long time. I book a lot of meetings across timezones and it's makes it very easy to see when a good time for a meeting would be between sydney tokyo and miami as an example [1] https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Out of curiosity, would you prefer to see all the options laid out so you can quickly scan which ones would be optimal? Or would you prefer to click a button and then it just schedules the meeting for you?

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

#38
Great UI design; clean, intuitive, and useful. Thank you for this!

On a side note, I'd really like to know what broken mechanism aggressively downranks such quality community submissions. 67 upvotes in 2 hours, and only ranked 9th. Meanwhile, another post with fewer upvotes in more time is ranked 2nd. Something is very wrong here. I'd love to see more posts like this one, and fewer standard blog articles that are hitting the front page for the third time in five years.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

#39
post #32

If you're one of those "give me a terminal or give me death" master race kind of person, then I have a little shell script I use for this: % tz US West 18:39 -0800 PST US East 21:39 -0500 EST UTC 02:39 +0000 UTC Ireland/UK 02:39 +0000 GMT West Europe 03:39 +0100 CET New Zealand 15:39 +1300 NZDT Current 02:39 +0000 GMT % tz 18:00 US West 10:00 -0800 PST US East 13:00 -0500 EST UTC 18:00 +0000 UTC Ireland/UK 18:00 +000…

I use something similar, but I use -d "$*" instead of -d "$1" so I can do

    $ dates 4 hours ago
One of two times "$*" had been useful

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

#40
post #38

Great UI design; clean, intuitive, and useful. Thank you for this! On a side note, I'd really like to know what broken mechanism aggressively downranks such quality community submissions. 67 upvotes in 2 hours, and only ranked 9th. Meanwhile, another post with fewer upvotes in more time is ranked 2nd. Something is very wrong here. I'd love to see more posts like this one, and fewer standard blog articles that are hit…

I'd bet you will never find the answer to this.
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