great domain, easy to remember, I'll be adding this to my list of dev tools I use alongside https://devina.io/ and https://www.omnicalculator.com/
Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
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#193I think the date selector is a must. My biggest timezone confusion happens during these two weeks when the US changes the daylight and the EU is not changed yet. So... during the two weeks in a year 9:00am SF time is not 18:00 EU time.
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#194Well done! I'd use this over what's out there.
Suggestions:
1. On mobile, it's hard to see more than 2 times without scrolling. I think compress the vertical space more
2. Might be nice to share a link with a configured set.
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#195Only iOS, but one of my essentials is Clocker (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111)
Essentially it does the same thing
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#196This is really great! One feature I would love to see on this is link sharing. Just encoding data in the URL to share with others. Maybe adding a custom label to each timezone so international groups can easily keep track of team times!
I use savvytime for this reason
https://savvytime.com/converter/ny-new-york-city-to-ca-los-a...
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#197If 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
I didn't know date supported that – can still do that with "tz '4 hours ago'".
For me the most useful part is being able to quickly translate things like "let's do a video chat at 3pm PST" to something that makes sense, which is why it had the second argument to set the timezone.
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#198The 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 occasionall…
Some attention is better than no attention but monetization/a side hustle/etc. just isn’t a big deal for a lot of people and honestly isn’t a real option in a lot of contexts.
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#199Very well designed. I'd recommend saving the current state in the URL parameters, so you can share it (or save the link for yourself).
Also, open-sourcing it would be cool.
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#200I think the date selector is a must. My biggest timezone confusion happens during these two weeks when the US changes the daylight and the EU is not changed yet. So... during the two weeks in a year 9:00am SF time is not 18:00 EU time.
Yes, same for me! Being able to see not just gmt-5 but also standard vs daylight would be excellent!
I second this, having to work with multiple TZ and calculate timelines as UTC.
Btw: Yours is one rare example where both domain and TLD are simply fitting, thanks!