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

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Post by mwexler »

ashtronaut wrote: post #134

Thank you! I have replaced my previous bookmark of https://everytimezone.com/ with this one. Appreciate the simplicity of this one. :)

Funny. I came to the opposite conclusion. I kept https://everytimezone.com/ after trying parent and a few others in the thread.

For eyeball time picks to drive min inconvenience for a group, every tz (after customizing for my tz of choice) was just easier.

Glad to have variety in this annoying problem space; more tools hopefully mean less bad scheduling of things.

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

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Post by dspillett »

prakhar897 wrote: post #172

The tool is great!! Unfortunately, almost none in general public will lay eyes upon this. https://www.google.com/search?q=time+zone+calculator&oq=time... You can either fill your site with SEO keywords and pay/work for backlinks. OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites. True tragedy of commons.

> You can either […] SEO […] OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites.

Not a problem if you aren't playing that game.

I've got a few things out three that probably aren't listed anywhere (they won't be anywhere that respects the robots.txt equivalent of “go forth and fornicate”!). They are there for me, friends, family, or to refer people to when relevant. Heck I might even mention one on public forums occasionally either due to relevance or just for a little mild ego-stroke. But I don't care whether or not they are listed in the first page of Google/Bing/Kagi/… so the general public can easily find them.

Admittedly the general public likely aren't even looking for them, I'm sure they are well served elsewhere, but that is beside the point.

Being massively popular doesn't necessarily imply fame & fortune. It might instead be fame and needing-to-find-a-way-to-pay-for-resources-to-keep-stuff-running-under-high-traffic (and dealing-with-stupid-emails-from-people-who-don't-know-which-elbow-they-are-sat-on!).

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

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Post by amonavis »

kidsil wrote: post #131

I've been using World Time Buddy for years - https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ It allows for a calendar view and shows multiple cities together. It's excellent for figuring out a time slot for a team when everyone is living in a different timezone.

I bought the app long ago, but now I have a problem: their database isn't updated. Where I live the weekend changed from Fri/Sat to Sat/Sun since a year, but the app seems abandoned.

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

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Post by NarcisMirandes »

devsda wrote: post #89
vidbina wrote: post #83

Love this! Looks nice (I can't design it), works smoothly. Kudos on you for building something simple and just getting it out there. Universe knows, there are many bells and whistles you could have tacked on, possibly dooming this project to stay in the "project shelf" for a much longer time. What's your story on starting this? Needed the tool yourself and couldn't find anything that worked for you, was trying to lea…

> Universe knows, there are many bells and whistles you could have tacked on, possibly dooming this project to stay in the "project shelf" for a much longer time. If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many other time related tools the author has plans to implement like a meeting planner, scheduler, calendar and pomodoro timer etc. I'm happy that they took the MVP approach instead of waiting long to laun…

"If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many other time related tools the author has plans to implement"

It would be good to say that this are the future features. My fist impression was confusion.

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

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Post by j-rom »

agustinf wrote: post #41
kseistrup wrote: post #8

Very useful! It would be nice to be able to share a set of timezones by sharing a URL with parameters.

I was going to say the same thing. The lack of this feature prevented me from sharing it to my whole company

Might I interest you in https://currenttimeutc.com/. This creates shareable dashboards with different cities, timezones, and airports.

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

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Post by erikig »

out_of_protocol wrote: post #161

Looks great! Well, except on mobile it wastes a lot of vertical space, able to fit only two records on a screen. https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0... https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0...

Same here, I use the iPhone clock app and https://whattimeis.com but they’ve both got progressively worse at utilizing screen real estate.
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