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I came across this the other day, it's pretty elegant and basically solves the problem. Comes in handy when you have eg a call with people in >2 timezones. htt
by placesalt 3y ago
I came across this the other day, it's pretty elegant and basically solves the problem. Comes in handy when you have eg a call with people in >2 timezones.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
- Gehinnn 3y agoI can also recommend https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ It's surprising how much ads all these tools show though.
- dylan604 3y agoyeah, sorry, i won't be visiting some website just to do timezone conversions. i'll just double check my work next time. to me, that's like the people that need to use GPS navigation to go to the same location they've been to more than once.
- oefnak 3y agoWell, navigation also shows you traffic information which is useful to choose the best path and to know at what time you will arrive.
- dylan604 3y agoyou can see the traffic with a quick glance at the map app before leaving, but that's a pretty weak excuse anyways. you and i both know that there are people that need those turn by turn directions for reasons.
- xeromal 3y agoIt feels like you have a bit of superiority complex against people who use GPS. What a weird thing to feel smart about.
- qumpis 3y agoMaybe OP doesn't travel a lot. Or is a taxi driver :)
- dylan604 3y agoActually, I grew up in a time where we learned how to read and use maps (think Boy Scouts without being in the scouts). It’s a skill like anything else that takes practice. Using GPS nav is not practice. I’ll use the map app to look at the route, pick out familiar references, then uses those as waypoints. “Three blocks past majorStreetName, turn right” type of things.
- jhgb 3y agoSo you "learned how to read and use maps", and that's a reason to not use GPS, but you won't visit a time zone website despite not having learned to do time zone conversions? I could see how the former is justified rationally but the latter doesn't seem to be.
- dylan604 3y agoLike you’ve never forgot to carry the one or put the decimal in the wrong place. Where you come off with that rationale is beyond me
- reaperducer 3y agoyeah, sorry, i won't be visiting some website just to do timezone conversions. I'm surprised to find that units doesn't handle this. I wonder if there's another CLI tool that does.
- erik_seaberg 3y ago/usr/bin/date converts using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database, though it's clunky.
- sam_goody 3y agoI use https://time.is https://time.is (Choose any location.) Does other conversions and stuff, but much more elegant and simpler than your link. Also good for setting your clock
- veltas 3y agoYep I use this for setting my mechanical watch every morning, great website apart from the clock text is relative to window width, so I can't zoom out if the window is too short, I literally have to resize the window width to see the time.
- qumpis 3y agoThat's an interesting morning routine. Why do you do so (do you work in 'measurement' industry?)?
- defrost 3y agoMechanical clocks (like all clocks . . .) drift. For two centuries mechanical clocks and watches have been regularly wound and reset. Ports traditionally had a noon day canon and ball drop down a pole (like a flag pole) for ships in the harbour to set their onboard clocks to (for navigational use in determining Longitude). Watches frequently have bimetallic strips (two sided) with metals that each expand with a differing coefficient to counter effect for rate of 'tick' with respect to tempreture. Ships at sea required triplets of clocks with mechanisms that countered for pitch and roll accumulation. You might enjoy: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horology
- veltas 3y agoI think for me it's just part of the fun of owning a mechanical watch. Yesterday I got to increment the date from 31 to 1! But also it's useful having accurate time on my wrist and its drifts a few seconds every day (like any mechanical watch).
- bayesianbot 3y agoI just Google like "7pm EST" and it returns it in my local time.