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Why does everyone feature a world clock in their information dashboards? Yes, it's a handy feature to have, and yes, it's easy to build, but very few people act
by rpmisms 7y ago
Why does everyone feature a world clock in their information dashboards? Yes, it's a handy feature to have, and yes, it's easy to build, but very few people actually use them.
- calvinmorrison 7y agovery useful for multi-time-zoned projects. Working with overseas times means you get good at mental translation but with daylight savings, people moving around, new people on the project, etc - it becomes very handy. One of my favorite clock related features is in KMail where it says "Senders current time", which is often helpful as well.
- Jakob 7y agoIT projects be it open source or closed source often span the US, Asia and Europe. After a while you memorize the time zone differences. But to be sure and take daylight savings in account world clocks are not bad.
- senorprogrammer 7y agoIt was added because I have co-workers in five different timezones and servers that use UTC. It's handy to have that info at a glance.
- kilroy123 7y agoI use a world clock every single day.