Btw: Yours is one rare example where both domain and TLD are simply fitting, thanks!
Universe knows, there are many bells and whistles you could have tacked on, possibly dooming this project to stay in the "project shelf" for a much longer time.
What's your story on starting this? Needed the tool yourself and couldn't find anything that worked for you, was trying to learn new tools, lost a bet?
If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many other time related tools the author has plans to implement like a meeting planner, scheduler, calendar and pomodoro timer etc. I'm happy that they took the MVP approach instead of waiting long to launch that perfect suite.
It would be good to say that this are the future features. My fist impression was confusion.
Maybe adding a custom label to each timezone so international groups can easily keep track of team times!
https://savvytime.com/converter/ny-new-york-city-to-ca-los-a...
It would be nice to be able to share a set of timezones by sharing a URL with parameters.
https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0...
https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0...
Technically it's probably since there are two aliases for `Europe/Belgrade`
["Kosovo",["Europe/Belgrade"]]
["Serbia",["Europe/Belgrade"]]- 12/24 hour setting should be detected based on browser locale.
- Colon symbol is broken on Firefox + Chrome for me in Linux (Shows U+FE55 symbol).
- Ability to toggle showing all cards in a single column layout so you can see the sliders position relative to each other more easily.
If I could make a small suggestion - always mark a few key times on the timeline so a user can quickly guesstimate, say, midday here is 9am there without the sliders.
See e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20...
Unfortunately, almost none in general public will lay eyes upon this.
https://www.google.com/search?q=time+zone+calculator&oq=time...
You can either fill your site with SEO keywords and pay/work for backlinks. OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites. True tragedy of commons.
Not a problem if you aren't playing that game.
I've got a few things out three that probably aren't listed anywhere (they won't be anywhere that respects the robots.txt equivalent of “go forth and fornicate”!). They are there for me, friends, family, or to refer people to when relevant. Heck I might even mention one on public forums occasionally either due to relevance or just for a little mild ego-stroke. But I don't care whether or not they are listed in the first page of Google/Bing/Kagi/… so the general public can easily find them.
Admittedly the general public likely aren't even looking for them, I'm sure they are well served elsewhere, but that is beside the point.
Being massively popular doesn't necessarily imply fame & fortune. It might instead be fame and needing-to-find-a-way-to-pay-for-resources-to-keep-stuff-running-under-high-traffic (and dealing-with-stupid-emails-from-people-who-don't-know-which-elbow-they-are-sat-on!).
Shameless plug for my own site that does something similar: https://currenttimeutc.com/
* Every Time Zone: time zone converter, compare time zone difference and find best time for a meeting with one click || https://everytimezone.com/
* Time Converter and World Clock - Conversion at a Glance - Pick best time to schedule conference calls, webinars, online meetings and phone calls. || https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
And this site has a bunch of great tools for calculating time between days and a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff.
* Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator || https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
But I like how you can configure which timezones you want to see with this one.
A map of timezones, which will either highlight the location entered, or allow you to select the timezone.
Saves a few keystrokes.
It allows for a calendar view and shows multiple cities together. It's excellent for figuring out a time slot for a team when everyone is living in a different timezone.
I use also timeanddate.com. It suggests acceptable time slots and can be saved in favs with selected cities, i.e. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20...
The design is a bit dated as it's not optimized for higher res screens, everything is quite small. I guess people can zoom in.
How do they make money though? I don't see ads or sign up page for extra features. Running this service since 2011, have to pay for hosting fees etc.
I wish only that you would add a RESET to NOW button.
Sliding to find when meetings could happen is awesome, but I keep wanting to reset to now.
Very cool!! Firefox bookmarked.
Yours is really good, simple and clear.
One suggestion I have is maybe show a bit more prominently if the dates end up being different? Could be easy to miss.
it has a nice world map, but its call planner feature is simpler than some of the alternatives mentioned here.
My primary use case would be setting up a meeting across timezones, but my calendar app already shows me overlapping times.
Or knowing what time it is for family or a friend, but then that becomes second nature if you’ve been in different timezones for a while.
Or just seeing what time it is somewhere right now, but phones have multiple clocks, or a “what time is it in x?” search answers the question.
If the many suggested features are added, would you use it? How will this help you?
If I just have https://time.fyi/timezones bookmarked, it seems to remember the timezones that are important to me. Definitely convenient and far easier than doing multiple searches or using a phone's multiple clocks(?).
This site is useful enough and it's a nice execution.
Great UX but only available as an app. You have the advantage of being on any platform and able to create share links.
I did bookmark it and I'm curious to see the other features (coming soon), because sharing time-based events on some social platforms isnannoying, and having a way to link to a specific time and date and having each user see the time relative to their timezone in a simple interface would be nice.
From my use cases (order of wantedness):
1. It would be nice to be able to type in a time rather than using slider.
2. A flag to say whether day light savings is in affect.
2. As well as current time what about adding other times in the blocks - I always need to convert 9:30, 15:30, 23:00 into local.
3. On desktop, there doesn't seem to be a reason that 12 and 24 hour clocks could be shown at the same time?
I support the link sharing as well. Perfect for events, meetings and the like.
So good, very easy to use and not to much other stuff going on. Great job and super domainname.
So I could have my own local time in military time and the one(s) I am converting to, in AM/PM.
Can I edit the name of the cities? As in I want to label as San Francisco instead of "Los Angeles"
1. Why did you build this tool when we have thousands of time zone comparison websites, apps and inbuilt functionality in smartphone time app?
2. Google already does this natively
3. It will be really tough to rank this on Google
4. Do you plan on monetizing this?
Some people just make stuff for fun, to learn a new skill, or to scratch a personal pain point.
I can't help but see this as Google's failure, not OP's.
I use https://timezonewizard.com/ almost daily to find feasible meeting times over 3-4 timezones globally, sometimes some days in the future.
It would be nice if it was day light savings aware. Even just having a tooltip per timezone block which lists the changeover dates would be huge
Essentially it does the same thing
Being someone who lives in Asia and interacts with clients(potential clients) in the Americas, I often find it difficulty to select a timeslot for a meeting. This tool will help a lot.
A Mac Version(Menu bar item) would be awesome
For eyeball time picks to drive min inconvenience for a group, every tz (after customizing for my tz of choice) was just easier.
Glad to have variety in this annoying problem space; more tools hopefully mean less bad scheduling of things.
I entered Kathmandu, Nepal and Hamburg, Germany. The time difference is -4:45 hours. The app shows me -4:75h. Which I think is a bug?
Thank you
As 4.75 hours translates to 4 hours and 45 minutes, it's correct, maybe not intuitive at first glance.
I know if I get meeting at noon or midnight - I need to triple check everything…
Also, open-sourcing it would be cool.
Useful for outdoors activities.
Any way to "pin" the current time so it acts as a live world clock?
Would be great if I could adjust height of the boxes to fit more on a page on iPhone.
Simple no-clicking view. If I need to share a time range, it’s easy to select.
Mobile app pics, one with with range selection: https://imgur.com/gallery/F52vcZT
Foe those that don't know, "Bouvet Island" belongs to Norway, and is a small island in the southern hemisphere. Oslo is NOT on Bouvet Island...
I guess the time zone database does not handle this case well
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Interesting info about the domain,
it was regiesterd first in 2015, and has alredy been renewed till 2029-09-02 with cloudflare registrar. It's purchase price was also not a premium at just $18
When I open https://www.timezones.digital/ it asks permission to get my current location and then displays the time for my location. And it even got the city name correct. This is great on mobile.
Whereas https://time.fyi/timezones does not currently request access to location and instead uses the location of my IP address. Which in my case is the location of my ISP and not of myself. Using the name of the city my ISP is in, which is halfway across the country from me.
I'm not a fan of the design, tbh. I see no reason why these need to be cards, which actually forces the sliders to be next to each other (rather than below each other or combined into a single slider)
- The timezone search in the original app was laggy.
- It did not allow searching timezones by offset, e.g., 'GMT+5,' 'gmt-5,' etc.
- It did not allow timezone search by name, e.g., PST, EST, GST, etc.
- It requested location permission that seemed unnecessary.
- It was closed source.
I had been using your product for quite some time and only developed time.fyi to scratch my own itch. I will be open-sourcing it soon and planning on extending it beyond what it is today.
Having said that, thank you for your work on timezones.digital!
% tz
US West 18:39 -0800 PST
US East 21:39 -0500 EST
UTC 02:39 +0000 UTC
Ireland/UK 02:39 +0000 GMT
West Europe 03:39 +0100 CET
New Zealand 15:39 +1300 NZDT
Current 02:39 +0000 GMT
% tz 18:00
US West 10:00 -0800 PST
US East 13:00 -0500 EST
UTC 18:00 +0000 UTC
Ireland/UK 18:00 +0000 GMT
West Europe 19:00 +0100 CET
New Zealand 07:00 +1300 NZDT
Current 18:00 +0000 GMT
https://github.com/arp242/dotfiles/blob/master/local/script/...
$ dates 4 hours ago
For me the most useful part is being able to quickly translate things like "let's do a video chat at 3pm PST" to something that makes sense, which is why it had the second argument to set the timezone.
On a side note, I'd really like to know what broken mechanism aggressively downranks such quality community submissions. 67 upvotes in 2 hours, and only ranked 9th. Meanwhile, another post with fewer upvotes in more time is ranked 2nd. Something is very wrong here. I'd love to see more posts like this one, and fewer standard blog articles that are hitting the front page for the third time in five years.
"The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.
Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action."