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Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by DonHopkins »

dveeden2 wrote: post #24

This doesn't seem to work correctly for say London and Theran as the difference is not a round number of hours. Otherwise looks useful. Support for comparing with more than two parties would be nice

I thought Warsaw was the last country with a non-hourly time zone, UTC+01:24, which they wisely abandoned ages ago, in 1915. Why on Earth would Tehran use such an arbitrary time zone offset? At least they're off by a half hour, instead of 24 minutes. But what possible reason could there be to do something like that, anyway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B01:24

>On 5 August 1915, Warsaw switched to Central European Time, and the rest of Poland quickly followed suit.

Edit: Apparently Dublin Mean Time was even weirder than Warsaw's time zone, weighing in at UTC-00:25:21.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200:25:21

>UTC−00:25:21 was used in Ireland as Dublin Mean Time.

>Dublin Mean Time was introduced by the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880,[1] which also defined Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as legal time in Great Britain. This Act replaced local mean time, which had been held to be the legal time since Curtis v. March in 1858, throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

>From 3:00 am Dublin Summer Time on Sunday 1 October 1916, the Time (Ireland) Act, 1916[2] changed the time used in Ireland to be the same as that used in the UK, both during daylight saving time and at other times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Republic_of_Irelan...

>John Dillon opposed the first reading of the Time (Ireland) Bill for having been introduced without consultation of the Irish Parliamentary Party; he said the different time in Ireland "reminds us that we are coming into a strange country".

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by waitandbleed »

madeofpalk wrote: post #33
tezza wrote: post #15

This very simple tool helps: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html It rocks with Daylight Saving time transitions too (UK one coming up soon)

I really like https://everytimezone.com It's what I've been using for years.

Agreed. Very useful

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by oefrha »

madeofpalk wrote: post #32
oefrha wrote: post #2

I tried some major cities around the world and it’s hit or miss. E.g. Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul and Sidney are all missing. Edit: Okay, the locations are fetched from Google Map’s auto complete service, with only the top five results, so when I enter say Beijing I get unhelpful results like some Beijing Pie House in Alhambra, CA. Probably want to limit to cities if possible, no one is entering local street/establishme…

> Sidney If you're thinking of the city in Australia, it's Sydney . Probably explains why when you search for Sidney it comes up with small towns in USA.

I think I only made the typo when I typed the comment here but I can’t check now since the service has exceeded quota.

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by tacomonstrous »

DonHopkins wrote: post #41
dveeden2 wrote: post #24

This doesn't seem to work correctly for say London and Theran as the difference is not a round number of hours. Otherwise looks useful. Support for comparing with more than two parties would be nice

I thought Warsaw was the last country with a non-hourly time zone, UTC+01:24, which they wisely abandoned ages ago, in 1915. Why on Earth would Tehran use such an arbitrary time zone offset? At least they're off by a half hour, instead of 24 minutes. But what possible reason could there be to do something like that, anyway? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B01:24 >On 5 August 1915, Warsaw switched to Central Europe…

You should look up Nepal if you want to be really ticked off.

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by DonHopkins »

tacomonstrous wrote: post #46
DonHopkins wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought Warsaw was the last country with a non-hourly time zone, UTC+01:24, which they wisely abandoned ages ago, in 1915. Why on Earth would Tehran use such an arbitrary time zone offset? At least they're off by a half hour, instead of 24 minutes. But what possible reason could there be to do something like that, anyway? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B01:24 >On 5 August 1915, Warsaw switched to Central Europe…

You should look up Nepal if you want to be really ticked off.

On one hand, that ticks me off so much I want to clean their clock, but on the other hand, at least they have a round number of seconds. I'm having a hard time in the face of all this tock about temporal diversity.

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by mrcu5 »

nerdponx wrote: post #28
oefrha wrote: post #2

I tried some major cities around the world and it’s hit or miss. E.g. Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul and Sidney are all missing. Edit: Okay, the locations are fetched from Google Map’s auto complete service, with only the top five results, so when I enter say Beijing I get unhelpful results like some Beijing Pie House in Alhambra, CA. Probably want to limit to cities if possible, no one is entering local street/establishme…

Why would it use Google Maps instead of the usual time zone database cities?

That's the whole point of the site. If I'm trying to figure out what time it is for my co-worker in Canberra Australia, I don't want to have to Google what time zone they are in (Australian Eastern Daylight Time). Just put the city in and it does the math for you.

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by gingericha »

For those on macOS, I use the app Clocker[0]. It lives in your menu bar, allows you to input your own desired cities/time zones/locations, has a bunch of different customization options, and also has a "future slider" that allows you to see what time it is in different locations at different times.

[0](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111?mt=12)

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