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For those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html http://time.is/1200_23
by wrboyce 11y ago
For those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/...
- joshontheweb 11y agoThanks for sharing that. I've been looking for something like this. Traveling and juggling meetings in multiple timezones is a big source of anxiety for me. I'm always wondering if I did the math wrong or if there is a daylight savings I haven't accounted for.
- rndn 11y agoThere are actually plenty of tools for problems related to timezones, for example here is one for finding the best time for Skype conferences: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
- tonyjstark 11y agoMaybe both, or none. It's complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
- ParadigmBlender 11y agoI also recommend http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/. Sounds like it would fit your use case well.
- slayed0 11y agoNow can you link one that uses the ISO 8601 date standard, for those of us who also dislike date juggling?
- toxican 11y agoNow can you link one that uses unix time, for those of us who hate ourselves?
- johnchristopher 11y agoI think it uses the browser's locale.
- pyrophane 11y agoHey, you guys remember swatch beats?
- david-given 11y agoAm I the only one who that that beats was actually a pretty decent, if totally doomed, idea? cricket noises
- wuliwong 11y agoI haven't had my morning coffee and I misread 'reply' as the username and thought you were having a big, multi-threaded conversation with yourself. :) I even vaguely thought 'is that guy's name reply?'
- ArekDymalski 11y agoNo, you aren't alone :) However reading [1] influenced my opinion. [1] http://qntm.org/abolish http://qntm.org/abolish
- danielweber 11y agoPeople think they are being more precise by saying "EST," but, quick, are we in daylight savings time now, or out of it? It turns out we are, and I don't meant to suggest that GP didn't know this. But what if we weren't in daylight savings time, and GP said "EST"? Would we have to change an hour? I highly recommend just saying "Eastern Time."
- Asbostos 11y agoOr better yet, UTC or GMT since probably more people in the world know their offset relative to that, than EST.
- lostbit 11y agoTrue. We know our current offset from UTC (or legacy 'GMT'). I always use the real offset at that time. Thus, I just inform my clock saying UTC-3 (or UTC-2 when we are in daylight savings time).
- ycombobreaker 11y agoI agree, wrong timezone (DST or not?) is as bad as no timezone. I have gotten in the habit of using Olson timezone names, US/Eastern for example, because I have seen CT used to refer to both US and European Central time.
- danielweber 11y agoCrap, I was wrong. "S" doesn't stand for "Savings," it stands for "Standard." We really are in EDT. All the more reason to never specify it! :)
- joshstrange 11y agoWelcome the world of pain that is timezones and DST... As someone who has had to write an extensive amount of deal with these two concepts they are the worst things ever. We should just abolish timezones, DST, and move to the International Fixed Calendar. Time sucks. I'm even in favor of moving to a seconds-based time unit like kiloseconds, miliseconds, etc instead of minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years/etc. "Metric Time" if you will...