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Ridiculously easy world times and meetings across time zones
- mike_esspe 15y agoShould have UTC+0. Couldn't find Greenwich.
- aymeric 15y agoMy startup developed something similar that persists your choices in a cookie: http://taskarmy.com/remote_team_work_hours http://taskarmy.com/remote_team_work_hours The scenario I had in mind was when you work in a remote team and you want to know if you can chat with them or expect an answer soon.
- jconnop 15y agoMuch faster than using worldtimeserver.com as I used to. Bookmarked :)
- ericmoritz 15y agoI've been using everytimezone.com for this kind of thing.
- rrikhy 15y agoGreat for enterprise but it needs a different name. Probably an outlook invite for the time after setting all the parameters would be ideal.
- dmoney 15y agoIt would be useful to be able to display 24-hour time for a given row.
- edderly 15y agoGreat, but slow!
- weezer 15y agoTake a look at http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com I think the interface is a bit cleaner, plus they include states and countries as well as cities. This site is also the result of HN's weekend challenge. Here's the author's experiences http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/weekend-challenge.html http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/weekend-challenge.html
- sivers 15y agoSuggestion: add the states and provinces of the world as if they are cities. Sometimes you know the person you're scheduling is in California/US, Alberta/Canada, or Bahia/Brazil. But since those are not cities they're not coming up in your location search.
- danohuiginn 15y agoalso, add GMT. Currently, I get 'no matches found' from putting GMT into the search box!
- mseebach 15y agoCareful! GMT != the time in London, as many people tend to assume. Britain is currently on BST (British Summer Time) which is GMT+1.
- StavrosK 15y agoThis. Almost nobody needs GMT, so it would be better if it was left out, to avoid confusion. I can't tell you how many times people showed up in meetings an hour earlier because they said "GMT" and meant "BST".
- Arubis 15y agoBelieve it or not, West Africa exists. Perhaps a better indicator would be regional, ie. Casablanca/Dakar (+0h). edit: reply below (correctly) points out that Casablanca is on WET. go figure.
- mseebach 15y agoThe only reliable indicator of offset is political geographical features. This would also keep you from making the exact error that the parent pointed out, as Casablanca is observing summertime and is thus currently in GMT+1. As far as I can tell, the only territory currently at GMT+0 is Cape Verde, which I would think it's fair to classify as "almost no-one".
- basseq 15y agoBookmarked; we'll how if it gets used in daily life, but it's certainly better than the tool I have been using. Seems slow, currently.
- forensic 15y agonewfoundland doesn't work
- lell 15y agoIt's true, Newfoundland is a good corner case for this app. 1) It has its own timezone which involves a half hour offset, (called NT) which is UTC−3:30 and 2) its capital is St. John's. This city name is common in the maritime provinces and the rest of Canada: there's also one in Winnipeg, PEI, Quebec, and New Brunswick.
- Cherian 15y agohttp://everytimezone.com/ http://everytimezone.com/ from Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy is my choice. But I am willing to switch if you give me a rest URL for custom time.
- richardw 15y agoIt looks pretty slick but interestingly WorldTimeBuddy was easier for me to understand immediately (having never seen either before). WorldTimeBuddy doesn't take any effort to see what the time in each zone is, for any time in the next few hours. I also default to thinking in hours (not minutes) for these, which WTB presents by default, but with EveryTimeZone almost all clicked positions have to be adjusted to get an on-the-hour line. I can't really figure out how to add my city (or if it's possible). So, personal view - ETZ shows a lot of 'cool stuff' but doesn't really solve my problem as well as WTB. Again, not related to either project, YMMV, etc.
- divtxt 15y agoNice! I've thought about a vertical UI like this for the last 2 years but was never happy with the html mockups (my last mockup: http://www.txtlabs.com/tzs/ http://www.txtlabs.com/tzs/), so I know this UI is hard to get right. Suggestions: - simple buttons for next/previous day & today - make date boundaries more prominent - speed - do everything in JavaScript - site should become purely static as a nice bonus - drop-down of ordered timezones as an alternative entry option Question for HN: how would you monetize a simple site this? ads? or not at all?
- Aidan 15y agoMuch easier than http://whenthetimeis.com/ http://whenthetimeis.com/, well done on the interface!
- onwardly 15y agoNice! I love this! Integrate Google calendar and I'm thrilled. Another suggestion: make the available hours darker and the night hours lighter. My eyes were drawn to the dark spaces, and it was easier to visualize the overlaps when I was looking at the dark spaces.
- morganpyne 15y agoI agree that the current colour scheme makes the night time hours stand out more than the daylight ones, but I would suggest perhaps a different approach - darken the background so that the daylight hours have more contrast and the night hours blend in more. This would solve the problem of your eyes being drawn to the darker spaces while still keeping the more expected display of daylight hours having light colours and night hours being darker.
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- tuhin 15y agoLove this so much. Please add a Mac OS widget and iCal/Google Cal support. Something like Rapportive raplet maybe. I know this is wishful thinking but I actually think this will be useful to a whole lot of people.
- alexkay 15y agoConsider adding an option for the 24-hour clock, that's what most people use.
- barmstrong 15y agoSomething about this reminds me of Hipmunk.
- kn0thing 15y agoThanks! I was really impressed with this as soon as I saw it.
- mwilcox 15y agoI was just thinking the other day that someone should make something like this. Thanks, bookmarked :)
- helipad 15y agoWhat are you using to determine user location?
- adlep 15y agoGreat idea. My business partner is in HK, China. Another in Germany. I am in the US. This will come in very handy to coordinate meetings between us
- ryancarson 15y agoHoly heck. I love this! Living in the UK, but constantly organizing meetings (Skype, etc) in the States will mean this is a super-useful tool :)
- djsla 15y agoJust came back from a concert to x10 traffic on world time buddy, which tracks back straight to here :) Really glad to see a lot of positive feedback - thanks guys! The UX indeed took a long time to get right (?), with multiple (failed) versions over a couple of years. Simple things are hard to make. Love the suggestions/ideas as well. Will consider for upcoming features. Can folks elaborate what they mean by "slow". Feel free to do so in private, over email -- contact@worldtimebuddy.com P.S. Why didn't I think of posting here myself? :)
- felipe 15y agoIt takes 5+ seconds to auto-complete the city, and then 10+ seconds to reload the page after I click on the city. That's pretty slow in my opinion. BTW, that's a great UI, much better than timeanddate.com (which I normally use)
- djsla 15y agoThanks felipe, I can repro this quire regularly now. Will look into the right way to fix.
- antirez 15y agoThis is completely awesome, very useful for me, thank you.
- gladimdim2 15y agothank you. great idea and realization.
- darklajid 15y agoOkay, admit it: Who else thought 'Nice, but does it break down for non-integer timezone offsets'? Added 'Adelaide, Australia'. Obviously the creator of this neat site was way ahead of me though. Really, really helpful, thanks!
- robot 15y agoSite name too long, hard to remember. When you type cities, you get detailed, irrelevant city names, e.g. type london you get all sorts of london, we know I don't mean Londonderry County Borough, UK
- Klinky 15y agoSo let's say this takes off and becomes really popular. What is the monetization strategy for something like this? Or is there one?
- telemachos 15y agoI use this - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html - not especially pretty but it gets the job done well.
- pkarbe 15y agoAwesome! Here is what I would do next: You've got a great visualization concept of time zone scheduling, which is worth a lot. But the UI alone as a stand-alone web app is easy to replicate and not very sticky. As a next step I would build a plugin for Google Calendar and Outlook using the same data visualization concept. This would help users figure out which times to suggest for a call with someone in a different time zone, and they would be able to generate an invite right from the plugin. Then I would introduce scheduling interaction between users through the plugin. For example if user A uses the plugin to suggest a time for a call with person B in a different time zone, person B would benefit immensely if he/she could not only accept/decline but also see what other times are available purely from a time zone perspective (ideally also taking into account other appointments that user A has). This would increase stickiness and virality while also allowing you to establish a business. Not sure yet whether contextual advertising using call subjects or a subscription model would work better. Come to think of it, this is all pretty trivial but I had fun thinking about it. Good luck!
- udp 15y agoI'm just getting a page saying "This Account Has Been Suspended"
- ljf 15y agoGuess they went over their bandwidth allowance! I think making the front page of HN is a bit like getting slashdotted was a few years back!
- djsla 15y agoIt's HN + LifeHacker. Working with hosting company to resolve...
- alanthonyc 15y agoWho's your host? You need to tell them to have a better message to display. This one makes it sound like you're some kind of criminal.
- piramida 15y agoit's the default message from cpanel which makes it look like you use some very bad hosting :)
- djsla 15y agoFinding good hosting is a challenge :) Any recommendations on an affordable hosting (PHP/MySQL) that can easily scale with traffic and takes care of server maintenance/patching? Thnx! P.S. The situation is resolved for now. P.P.S. We've got so much great feedback here and via our site that it'll take some time to go through it all and get back to folks. Thank you!
- Killah911 15y agoHmmm, may be worth mentioning something about scalability and reliability. I just got an "account suspended" page after clicking on the link :(
- bconway 15y ago"This Account Has Been Suspended"?
- kopos 15y agoFor the first time coordinating across timezones is so darn simple. Thank you for this. - Day / date boundaries can be more intuitive - Day and night too Can you tie this up with skype (as a small quick plugin), Google Calendar and MS Outlook?
- kennethologist 15y agoThis is a really good app. I talk and do business with clients & contractors in California, Romania, India and Philippines and it is often very difficult to schedules meetings that are reasonable for myself and the other party. Thanks for this! Good UI good performance. Good inspiration!