My entire family thanks you for this. Mostly me at the moment, but the rest of them eventually.
Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
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Re: Accepting the "I could do that in a weekend" challenge
#52Wolfram Alpha has an _awesome_ time zone converter,
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#53since it starts with the current time i was surprised that it does not appear to update. it would be nice if the clock worked "like a real clock", changing to reflect the current time. of course, that's not what you want if someone enters a time, so you'd need to track whether that has happened (and perhaps provide some subtle feedback to indicate that it's not "ticking" - the best thing i can think of is that you flash the ":" between numbers if it's running as a clock, and leave it steady if the time has been altered).
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#54Another feature request...
Can you give it some "add another city" ability? I've had much more grief trying to do the mental arithmetic scheduling phone conferences involving people in Sydney, London, and Dallas than I've ever had working out just one other city in my head...
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#55It does not seem to do anything without Javascript and times are always displayed in the (to me) awkward AM/PM format instead of 24 hour. The first is probably of no matter to you but how about a toggle button for the latter?
I do examine the browser's accept-language preferences and attempt to correctly do locale appropriate time formats. I've considered a toggle but am trying to keep the UI really simple. Are you from outside the US, and if so could you tell me your browser accept-lang settings (handy tool below)? http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/lang.cgi
I am in Germany but I use "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9". :(
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#56This is awesome. One suggestion/request? If I enter the time in 24hr mode, can it please be left that way? Right now it converts it to am/pm... I don't know why, but my brain only functions in 24hr mode and seeing 14:45 change to 2:45 made me think there was a bug before I noticed the PM next to it. Otherwise this is immensely useful! I think "smart parsing textboxes" are the best things ever. I really like the one o…
Third request here for different 24h behavior. I remember hearing the advice "listen to your users" somewhere... so I'll prioritize that. Thanks.
I was going to suggest something along those lines after reading your post. But I was pleasantly surprised that your application already handles 24hr times gracefully, when I checked it.
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#57Nice work - bookmarked. Minor things: * support for alternate names (e.g. The Hague vs. Den Haag) * some way of knowing when a city wasn't found - right now if I type the name of an unrecognised place then it isn't clear that the time displayed is no longer valid * optional vertical layout for phones, and (to go with that) offline support? Perhaps not quite so minor, I'll admit ;) Oh, and re. the "programmer-friendly…
> Oh, and re. the "programmer-friendly" comment in your article - I'm one and I don't find those sites at all friendly...
I think he means the "easy to program" kind of programmer-friendly, not the "easy to use" kind of programmer-friendly.
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#58There's also a nifty iPhone App for that:
GlobeTrotter
http://itunes.apple.com/app/globetrotter-timezone-calculator...
Using it all the time because I've had similar problems. And it allows to calculate the differences for more than 2 cities.
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#59I suggest you add more country names to your incremental search e.g. England, Canada, Australia. If the country has more than one timezone, list them. Worth logging all the things people type that get zero auto-completions. Otherwise spot on.
Thanks. As a shortcut I left out countries with multiple timezones, but as you say they should be in there still just multiple times and delineated somehow. Nothing gets by the HN crowd. :)
Nice work. For visual dressing up, show the wikimedia timezone map and visually highlight the two zones.
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#60Everyone should go to google and search for "time zone converter", than go to the bottom and choose "Add a result", and paste in the url for this page :-) It couldn't hurt.