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Glad you guys like it. I designed it, my husband Thomas Fuchs built it.

I designed it this way because none of the time zone tools out there reflect the actual nature of time (zones): simultaneous, overlapping lines thru time. ETZ doesn't just give you the answer, it helps you create a useful model of understanding to take with you & use even when you're not looking at ETZ.

We've been slowly improving it, so expect more options for customizing the tz's you see & static links to times in the future, etc.

EDIT: if you like the design of ETZ, you will probably love Freckle, which is our time tracking / productivity tool -- all about making your data painless to get, then super useful & actionable: http://letsfreckle.com/startups/

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I love it. But I have a minor nitpick: it pollutes the browser history too much; every single action or click introduces a new history link, I had to press back about 20 times before I came back to HN.

Thanks for your feedback. We'll look into how we can make the links copy & pasteable without that annoying side effect.

Just make sure the first open is in a new tab!

I've only briefly looked at this but everything looks awesome. One thing that would be great would be including the various abbreviations next to the time areas.

eg. I'm currently in Sydney where the time is referred to as AEDST (Australian Easter Daylight Savings Time)

My biggest peeve with timezones is seeing something like "Live at 6PM PST!" and I have absolutely no idea what PST is, when it is, etc.

Note: as far as im concerned anything like that should always have a countdown timer to go along with it.. it instantly solves the problem for everyone as they can figure out what time that will be very easily.

Eastern* not Easter!

>static links to times in the future this would be awesome, sharing of dates is the one feature missing form this cool tool (which made it into my bookmarks toolbar by the way, next to gmail and basecamp)

Looks like Thomas hacked it in this morning. Click the "link to this page" in the top right. It doesn't add it to your clipboard or anything but you can c&p from the address bar.

I really like the visualization aspect. It's a nice design.

I do have some nits to pick. When opening the page the only time displayed is my local time, which is the only time I don't need since I already know it. Clicking somewhere shows me times, but try as I might I can't seem to get it to show me the current time in other time zones. This is the most common (and default) thing I would want to see, and I can't seem to get it at all.

Thanks for pointing that out, it used to work, think maybe Thomas introduced a bug when he totally reimplemented it last week :)

Awesome! That's Thomas Fuchs from Scriptaculous, no? Scriptaculous is what caused me to learn JS, and by exention, to go from just dabbling with HTML-only static pages to actually doing web developing (which is now my career).

I love that one-page design for Freckle, but you might want to add a trial sign-up button at the top too for us impatient types! (I know it's not the 'real' landing page which is letsfreckle.com, curious as to why you would point us to this smallish version? A/B testing experiment?)

Everytimezone looks awesome! My remarks on the design, but I understand it's still a work in progress of course: - don't just show cities, but also zones like 'Central European Time' or 'GMT' or 'Central time'. - in the cities, include their timezone (GMT-1, GMT+3, etc) - why just limit it to 'know'? When scheduling a meeting for within a couple of days I think it would be cool if I could scroll to the right to see how things are in that day. Or perhaps provide an input field to set the 'central' day viewed in the tool or something.

I thought I recognized this - wasn't something very similar to this used on the demo documents for the scripty framework a year or so ago?

Its a nice looking finished product, I'd like to go back and see how the framework looks now...

Glad it's being improved upon, I've been using it regularly for over a year now!

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