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It helps with agreeing to do something together online at a certain time. Including announcing online events. Nothing else. But that's enough.
"Let's set the meeting at 16:00 [UTC is implied]." "Sorry Bob, we in Sydney will be asleep at that time."
Better guy that wrote it!
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It's good to check, because different places switch to and from daylight savings time on different dates, so you're not always the same number of hours apart during the transition! I've missed meetings before because of that: "I was there, where were you?" "I was there too! Where were YOU?"
It used to be the same for USA and Europe, but one day George W. Bush decided to move US's changeover dates a month earlier in Spring, and a month later in the Fall, messing a lot of things up. Thanks, Dubya! And just for fun the EU bigwigs had some sort of vote recently that resulted in saying each member country is free to choose whether to keep or abandon DST. What the hell boneheaded move is that?! Why even have…
No, they decided to abandon DST everywhere. What each member has to decide is whether they'd stay in Summer Time or Winter Time permanently.
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It's good to check, because different places switch to and from daylight savings time on different dates, so you're not always the same number of hours apart during the transition! I've missed meetings before because of that: "I was there, where were you?" "I was there too! Where were YOU?"
It used to be the same for USA and Europe, but one day George W. Bush decided to move US's changeover dates a month earlier in Spring, and a month later in the Fall, messing a lot of things up. Thanks, Dubya! And just for fun the EU bigwigs had some sort of vote recently that resulted in saying each member country is free to choose whether to keep or abandon DST. What the hell boneheaded move is that?! Why even have…
Any way to just input GMT/UTC timezones directly? Seems more practical that way.
I think this works well, I live in Eastern US and I'm interested in talking to somebody in Hokkaido, Japan... I just instinctively typed "New York" and "Toyko" time.
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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.
Had been needing this forever... I used to use time.is, but this is _decent_ :)
Also worth noting is that in windows 10 you can add two additional clocks to the main one. Very helpful when you are usually focused on just a few timezones in particular.
Would it be more space efficient to just add more hands to the same clock face?
More importantly, that doesn't show you AM/PM, or the differences in days, both of which are important.
(And there are edge cases where just another hour hand wouldn't be enough)