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Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by masklinn »

gshakir wrote: post #70

There is one crucial feature missing. There should be an option for “multiple” other locations. Since we are all practicing social distancing, I have scheduled a call with 5-10 of my friends over the weekend and they are spread over 5 different time zones and countries. We ultimately found one time that works for all of us using iOS world clock.

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Before clicking I was fully expecting that you could input basically as many dates as you need to. Just two is not even sufficient to handle my cousins…

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by netsharc »

BurningFrog wrote: post #61
netsharc wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Let's set the meeting at 16:00 [UTC is implied]." "Sorry Bob, we in Sydney will be asleep at that time."

You probably meant that as a counterargument, but to me it shows how simple UTC makes things.

I edited my comment and it turned to nonsense. What if the Sydneysiders aren't in the call?

I'm in Central European Time right now. If I want to set a meeting with New Yorkers, I have to know what time the NYers wake up in my time zone (14:00 here is 9:00 New York - although this might change in 2 days as we'll both be in Summer Time).

If I use UTC, I still have to know what time (in UTC) the New Yorkers wake up...

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by RichardCA »

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.

It's not perfect. For example March 29 is a 23 hour day in the UK but we don't see that reflected in the app.

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by BurningFrog »

netsharc wrote: post #73
BurningFrog wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably meant that as a counterargument, but to me it shows how simple UTC makes things.

I edited my comment and it turned to nonsense. What if the Sydneysiders aren't in the call? I'm in Central European Time right now. If I want to set a meeting with New Yorkers, I have to know what time the NYers wake up in my time zone (14:00 here is 9:00 New York - although this might change in 2 days as we'll both be in Summer Time). If I use UTC, I still have to know what time (in UTC) the New Yorkers wake up...

Yeah. We have no disagreements about that.

> If I use UTC, I still have to know what time (in UTC) the New Yorkers wake up...

This is also true under the current system.

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by DonHopkins »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #69
DonHopkins wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would it be more space efficient to just add more hands to the same clock face?

Can you even get Windows 10 to show an analog clock? 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)

When I was at Sun, somebody hacked up a version of Michael Power's classic NeWS "Glass Clock" tool (that shaped the window so that it only showed the hands and the 12 tick marks, so its face was transparent and mouse clicks passed through it), so it ran setuid root in order to call stime() to set the operating system's time, which it let you easily do by simply dragging the hands around the face, just like a real clock! ("Temporal Direct Manipulation"!)

This is the original version, without that hack:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/utilities/...

    %    Glass is an implementation of a NeWS clock that I wrote to
    % experiment with shaped canvases. The clock is shaped like the
    % the hands and tick marks thereby allowing you to "see through'
    % the face to whatever lies behind. Because of the bug concerning
    % stroking a canvas path the face must redraw every time it is
    % updated (gross).
As it turns out, it REALLY SUCKS to have a clock that made it so easy to accidentally change the time on your workstation! The way the glass clock could float unobtrusively above your other windows, it was really easy to accidentally hit the hour or minute hand with the mouse and move it without noticing, then you'd miss meetings because your entire workstation would have the wrong time! Unless you were running it over the network on a different server, then you'd change the time for everybody else using that server, so they would miss their meetings too!
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