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When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by DonHopkins »

CDRdude wrote: post #65
netsharc wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It was passed by Congress. Bush just signed the bill into law.

I got away with blaming missing the meeting on Bush, that one time. ;)

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by gingericha »

Tepix wrote: post #9

Nice idea, but it's buggy! If you try more than one pair of cities (with different time differences), the table below the displayed time zone difference will not update.

Had a similar issue, I had to hit the 12/24 hour button to get the table to update.

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

DonHopkins wrote: post #39
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)

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?"

> I've missed meetings before because of that

The simple failsafe for catching this early is calendar invitations.

Re: When To Chat: Reconcile Time Zone Differences

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Post by nerdponx »

mrcu5 wrote: post #48
nerdponx wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm talking about the official "tz" database, which contains a large list of cities and geographic coordinates. So if you want to autodetect, you just need approximate lon/lat and then grab the closest tz city.

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

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