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Visualizing Time Zones

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Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#24

its awesome and super easy!, it took me exactly 30 seconds to figure out that I can move the slider. Pls don't listen to the old farts here who say that the site is "shiny" or "Can't figure out".

Because old farts never need to compare time zones...?

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#25
post #24

its awesome and super easy!, it took me exactly 30 seconds to figure out that I can move the slider. Pls don't listen to the old farts here who say that the site is "shiny" or "Can't figure out".

Because old farts never need to compare time zones...?

You can find tons of web-apps/apps that show the timezone(s) in a traditional form, but this one has a different take on presenting the same data. Why change the one unique feature ?

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#27
Doesn't work in IE7 I guess? All I see is a green bar that isn't draggable. I already noted in the comments that the UI isn't necessarily obvious, but I've tried pushing, pulling, dragging every visible element on the page, and haven't seen anything happen.

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#29

I'm assuming the green timezone is your current timezone? Perhaps that could be spelled out somewhere.

I'm not the author, but it appears that the green tag is your current time zone, at the time you want to convert from. Initially, this starts as the current time, but it can be adjusted. When you move the green tag, a purple tag is placed to represent the current time instead.

Re: Visualizing Time Zones

#30
I don't get it. I can slide the local time around, and right next to the bar it shows the time in each timezone, and there's a bunch of grey bubbles that move around. Is it just that it's broken on chrome?

[edit]I tried it in opera 10.5 and firefox 3.5 and it was worse than in chrome, what browser does it work in?

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