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Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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I think the date selector is a must. My biggest timezone confusion happens during these two weeks when the US changes the daylight and the EU is not changed yet. So... during the two weeks in a year 9:00am SF time is not 18:00 EU time.

Yes, same for me! Being able to see not just gmt-5 but also standard vs daylight would be excellent!

I second this, having to work with multiple TZ and calculate timelines as UTC.

Btw: Yours is one rare example where both domain and TLD are simply fitting, thanks!

https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY

Especially when my weekly meeting changes in my local time because of this. It was very confusing at first.

World time buddy offers that: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Love this! Looks nice (I can't design it), works smoothly. Kudos on you for building something simple and just getting it out there.

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?

> 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.

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.

"If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many other time related tools the author has plans to implement"

It would be good to say that this are the future features. My fist impression was confusion.

This is really great! One feature I would love to see on this is link sharing. Just encoding data in the URL to share with others.

Maybe adding a custom label to each timezone so international groups can easily keep track of team times!

Second the link sharing idea!

came here to request this! Then I can share it with my company and we can have all our offices listed in one URL!

I use savvytime for this reason

https://savvytime.com/converter/ny-new-york-city-to-ca-los-a...

Seems to have been implemented since this was posted: https://time.fyi/timezones?d=Europe%2FBerlin-primary%2CAsia%...

Might be useful to have the slider cover 3 days, rather than just 24h. With the single day, New York visually looks to be ahead of London at certain times of day (e.g from 00:00 to 05:00 UK time), because NY is still in its previous day.

Very useful!

It would be nice to be able to share a set of timezones by sharing a URL with parameters.

Yeah, time.is supported that for a long time and was extremely useful for me.

isn't supported anymore?

It should be live today.

I was going to say the same thing. The lack of this feature prevented me from sharing it to my whole company

Might I interest you in https://currenttimeutc.com/. This creates shareable dashboards with different cities, timezones, and airports.

Awesome tool! Some minor feedback for what it's worth - after moving the slider bar to change the time, I went looking for a button along the top something like "Reset to Now", and it took me about two seconds to realize this reset button was in each time widget frame.

I started by trying to tap the local time clock at the top, after that I realized it's the little red reset button

I kind of agree that the "reset to now" button should be in the global context, as resetting each timezone to now separately doesn't make as much sense.

Looks very slick. Using this on an ipad. A few comment... Moving the time slider also moves the zone widget. It would be nice if night/day is indicated on the sluder, maybe using subtle colors. Reason: The main reason I would use such an app is to know if my clients are awake.

Oooh, that's a nice idea.

Looks great! Well, except on mobile it wastes a lot of vertical space, able to fit only two records on a screen.

https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2024-01-06_Screenshot_2024-0...

Same here, I use the iPhone clock app and https://whattimeis.com but they’ve both got progressively worse at utilizing screen real estate.

Nice (accidental/incendiary) Easter Egg - Belgrade shows up as "Kosovo - Belgrade". I suppose since "Kosovo is Serbia" it's...not...wrong...?

Technically it's probably since there are two aliases for `Europe/Belgrade`

    ["Kosovo",["Europe/Belgrade"]]
    ["Serbia",["Europe/Belgrade"]]

I've got this too. Nice trolling if it's intentional

The capital of Kosovo is Belgrade.

What do you mean? Belgrade is not even in Kosovo.

Coming soon on ChatGPT

Because Kosovo it's Serbia

Feature suggestions:

- 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.

Yes, I'd prefer a single column like the experience on mobile

Love this. A link generator to share a state would be fantastic.

Can you add a service worker and manifest to make this into a progressive web app that works offline? If there's a GitHub, I'd love to help add that feature because it'd be useful to me. If it's not public you can find me here https://github.com/gabesullice

That's really nice and coincidentally I needed such a tool just a few days ago.

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.

This is really useful and feels slick! I've been using https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to see time zone differences, which seems clunky in comparison.

You should be using https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html which is the exact same thing (arguably slightly better with just one slider and color-coded "good" and "bad" times when the timezones overlap)

See e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20...

The tool is great!!

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.

> You can either […] SEO […] OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites.

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!).

Some attention is better than no attention but monetization/a side hustle/etc. just isn’t a big deal for a lot of people and honestly isn’t a real option in a lot of contexts.

Very cool! I like how you use a slider to update the times.

Shameless plug for my own site that does something similar: https://currenttimeutc.com/

I like the way this tool looks, but I am a big fan of the "row-based" designs from these other tools for comparing time zones.

* 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

A similar site I really like is https://everytimezone.com/

But I like how you can configure which timezones you want to see with this one.

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com has a similar design and is configurable. And I prefer it (the slider aligned) to OP's design (sliders all over the place)..

Very nice. I'll list a feature I've always wanted but haven't seen on timezone converters.

A map of timezones, which will either highlight the location entered, or allow you to select the timezone.

Saves a few keystrokes.

I've been using World Time Buddy for years - https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

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 was thinking of this site as well, showing the different time lines and how they offset according to the time difference. Very neat. Just couldn't remember the domain name.

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.

There used to be paid options. They sent a notice a couple years ago saying it was going completely free, but with that support has subsided. For example their mobile app is no longer compatible with latest versions of Android.

This is very useful for scheduling, and has a lot of the features being requested.

I bought the app long ago, but now I have a problem: their database isn't updated. Where I live the weekend changed from Fri/Sat to Sat/Sun since a year, but the app seems abandoned.

Great tool, love the calendar picker to check the DST overlap weeks.

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...

Feature request -- please make it possible to bookmark or share a link with my selected timezones. Thanks for building it! super useful

Pretty cool, really like it. I have been using Overlap by Moleskine on iOS for a while: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/overlap-by-moleskine-studio/id...

That looks nice, but I don't really understand what the blobby graphs mean in the screenshots

Maybe the cards could get background color based on time of the day (e.g. blue for mid-day, dark for night etc.)

Being in Phoenix as a remote worker for an East coast org, I love this. PHX does NOT do daylight savings which very few tools observe. TY

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.

A red reset button appears in the top right of the cards after you slide the slider.

Great work! I've looked for this kind of thing before but found only the usual sea of spam and semi-functional tools.

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.

i have always only knew about https://www.worldtimezone.com/

it has a nice world map, but its call planner feature is simpler than some of the alternatives mentioned here.

Well done! I'd use this over what's out there. Suggestions: 1. On mobile, it's hard to see more than 2 times without scrolling. I think compress the vertical space more 2. Might be nice to share a link with a configured set.

The only thing I can see missing that I would use would be the ability to select a date in the future or past. Now this might be my ignorance of the subject area but it's definitely something I use other services for.

Seems many people have ideas for adding features. But nobody is really talking about whether they are using it in their day to day (or would use it).

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 you work with people across multiple timezones, it's really useful to be able to open a screen with a set of clocks and glance at the time in every relevant timezone.

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.

Nice! I saved to my iPhone Home Screen. However, the icon was a black box with a white T. When I tapped to save it showed a much nicer black box with yellow swirl - looks like an icon file is missing.

This is really cool! Found a small bug - when you add a second card, the second card displays a pill with the total time difference between the first card and second card. When you switch the order of the cards by dragging, the pill remains on the same card so it's basically showing the total time difference in reverse. Clearing the cards and starting over with the switched order but by creating each card again results in the pill being displayed on the correct card.

That's not a bug, that's a feature. It shows the pills based on the highlighted card. Click a different card, and the "pills" change.

Nice little idea! As a slight aside I’m not sure where the timezone / city list has come from but it labels Hanoi as in Thailand (rather than Vietnam).

And Oslo (Norway) in Bouvet Island...

Thanks, this has been fixed.

Sweet, I did a CLI version of this idea in 1987 for VMS, was working with people in Sydney, London & Chicago and this made it easy to communicate.

Very neat. Reminds me of the Overlap app by Moleskine Studio: https://moleskinestudio.com/support/overlap/introduction/ove...

Great UX but only available as an app. You have the advantage of being on any platform and able to create share links.

You're brave, dealing with time is often a discouraging and frustrating experience as a developer.

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.

Very useful. Thank you! I’d suggest to place the time above the slider. I’m left handed and I’m covering the time when I adjust the slider.

Welldone, this is very useful!

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?

Very nice, very useful. The slider is extremely easy & fast input method which is great. I've encountered an issue with the fonts spacing of hours and minutes - the digits are overlapping: https://imgur.com/a/meoRaJL (Win11, Chrome, Firefox, Edge)

I just deployed the fix for this. It should be fine now.

This is very nicely done. I've been a user of world time buddy and i don't have complaints but this is much slicker

Would love to see pr. timezone AM/PM and Military time toggle. I personally not figured out how to mentally convert from one to another and usually this is one of my challenges as well.

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.

There is a 12/24 hour toggle. (It defaults to the wrong one, BTW.)

I meant pr. timezone toggle! The current one is global if I am not mistaken?

So I could have my own local time in military time and the one(s) I am converting to, in AM/PM.

I was just thinking that. Why would the 12hr one be the default? The tool looks slick in general, however!

I’ve seen “anywhere in earth” [0] used increasingly for deadlines. It’s something I’m looking up in these time zone calculators. You might consider adding it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth

Very well designed

Can I edit the name of the cities? As in I want to label as San Francisco instead of "Los Angeles"

Congratulations on the launch. Looks great! A couple of questions if you don't mind me asking:

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?

Not everything has to be a VC-funded startup.

Some people just make stuff for fun, to learn a new skill, or to scratch a personal pain point.

Because it was time.

your questions are literally the reason why internet is not what it used to be. not everything needs to be about money, people can do things out of their own interest and needs

If you look at his profile and look at his about, then you know why he’s asking this.

Fair point. These are still valid questions whose answers could unblock people who are stuck in a analysis paralysis

There's no need to be rude.

> It will be really tough to rank this on Google

I can't help but see this as Google's failure, not OP's.

Looks great and works smoothly! Is there some way to chose a date in the future?

I use https://timezonewizard.com/ almost daily to find feasible meeting times over 3-4 timezones globally, sometimes some days in the future.

It seems not to have knowledge about CEST - Central European Summer Time. I am always hesitant when using this term since many are unaware of it, but writing CET while refering to the current (summer) time is technically wrong. I wonder if the user interface somehow can illustrate this.

Can you name a country that is currently observing Central European Summer Time?

I'm guessing "no" in the winter.

No country. But I could not find it when I searched for it. I should be able to compare with it, I think.

There is a similar free iOS app called “Synchronize” that I use for the same purpose.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/synchronize/id371177261

This is very helpful! Often I need to coordinate meeting times across multiple timezones and this will safe me a lot of headache.

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

Nice UI, but I got used to googling "14:00 Germany time in Los Angeles", for example.

Assuming you live in Germany you could type “14:00 in LA”

This is so intuitive. Huge props for coming up with the first ui for time zone comparison that has actually made sense to me immediately. Clicking a zone to make it the base, which all others get compared to, was a great choice. Bookmarking this for sure.

Only iOS, but one of my essentials is Clocker (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111)

Essentially it does the same thing

There's a good Mac version of Clocker too https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111?mt=12

I like this and it’s immediately usable. May I ask you to make it so that I can reorder the boxes. Also could I have an option to have shorter boxes so that I can view 4 time zones without the need to scroll on a mobile screen?

It's already draggable for me on desktop, not sure for mobile.

Brilliant! Thanks for this.

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

Try the clock https://www.seense.com/the_clock/

Thank you! I have replaced my previous bookmark of https://everytimezone.com/ with this one. Appreciate the simplicity of this one. :)

Funny. I came to the opposite conclusion. I kept https://everytimezone.com/ after trying parent and a few others in the thread.

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.

Very clever solution! Would be cool to add a color coding of the time, maybe same way as Apple does sun position in the weather app. So when you scroll time you can see where of all these places the sun is still up.

I'm most impressed by the domain name. How much does time.fyi cost you?

I saw dictionary word on non main tld for something like $125 somewhere and would bet somewhere there.

This looks great. Thank you for building and sharing it. I have a small feedback here.

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

Tried the same and it shows "-4.75h" with a dot, not a colon.

As 4.75 hours translates to 4 hours and 45 minutes, it's correct, maybe not intuitive at first glance.

Bug report: Typing Oslo, Bergen, or Trondheim shows "Bouvet Island" instead of "Norway". (Bouvet Island, while Norwegian territory, is an uninhabited arctic island.)

I just deployed the fix for this.

This is going to be my daily driver to schedule our team meetings, great work! A feature request would be to give me the option to input the time apart from the existing slider input.

The list of TZs should sort naturally, not on order of TZ addition.

I disagree, I want them shown in the order I add them, not in order of how far from the UK they are.

Weird use case, but some places use 12hr, some use 24hr time. You could likely infer that by timezone name itself?

I know if I get meeting at noon or midnight - I need to triple check everything…

I'd love to see this with sun position. Maybe even change the brightness of the square too. Then you could visually see when all your meeting participants are in daylight.

Amazingly pretty! I'm not international enough to have a personal use case for this, but I admire the skill that went into this. Are you open sourcing this at some point?

The location database has some extremely weird errors in it. For example, Belgrade is shown to be in Kosovo when it is in fact in Serbia. Similar for other Serbian cities.

This is a great tool. Thank you. As an international student in US with a lag of 10-12 hours with my home country, this will be very helpful in scheduling calls.

Awesome thanks for making this! Was just planning a trip to Asia with my wife and had to figure out which days I needed to take off. The app was very useful!

Very well designed. I'd recommend saving the current state in the URL parameters, so you can share it (or save the link for yourself).

Also, open-sourcing it would be cool.

This is great! It might be nice to see - dragging the slider increase/decrease by 15 mins (current) and tapping should increase/decrease by 1 min.

Super nice. A feature request: for each time zone, show the offset to sun time. Helps with the question: will 8am be like I expect it to be ?

Useful for outdoors activities.

I made one during covid as well to help me schedule meetings. Its been on app stores, but i made it mostly for personal use. timezonecarousel.com

That slider feature is so incredibly useful. I think I will use this many times per week. This is what I needed but didn't know I needed.

Looks great, unfortunately I am having challenges using it on iPhone Safari: trying to engage the sliders moves the cards around instead.

Thank you for reporting. I am looking into it.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/

Nice, clean UI. What's the tech stack behind?

Source code suggests Astro with React.

Also might be useful to some: in Google Cal, you can show a secondary time zone on left hand side. Mine shows PT and CT for example.

I depends on this, but Google Calendar only lets you add a second time zone. They don't take up much space, I'd love to have 3 or 4. Has anybody figured out a way to do that?

This reminds me of https://timezen.com/

great domain, easy to remember, I'll be adding this to my list of dev tools I use alongside https://devina.io/ and https://www.omnicalculator.com/

Not what I was expecting haha. Interesting implementation! Seems super helpful and +100 for the great domain name too.

Add a few commonly compared timezones by default. I should be able to load this and get to work, without setup.

Disagree. It appears to default to your local time zone for the first entry, which is a sane default. If there were other useless (to me) defaults as well I’d have to remove them as visual clutter (in addition to still needing to add the time zones I wish to compare).

common for you != common for everyone else. i live in japan, i would have absolutely no need for some random us / europe comparison

This is extremely useful. Thanks for sharing. Are there future features planned? It could be a big thing.

What else would you like to see? I have some other time related tools that I will be launching but would love to hear what you have in mind.

- Show the timezone name/descriptor if I select a city (yes, it already says 'GMT+X', but it would be helpful to have the local timezone name of that city as well) - Somehow select a time for a different day. E.g. if I want to compare the times for the 22nd of October 2024 instead of today (Countries/Cities/Regions swap timezones x-times a year, on different days)

I was thinking it would be cool to add another slider for day of the year. That way you can see how the differences change as local timezones roll through their own daylight savings time or other adjustments. For example, right now Asuncion Paraguay is +3 hours ahead of Chicago U.S. but in April it will be only one hour ahead.

Link sharing would be useful. Here is a site similar to yours, albeit not as pretty. https://podfeet.com/webapps/time-shifter-clock/

Nice tool, would be great if you could input other languages that english when searching for a location

Thanks for sharing, it works very cool

Wow, what a nice tool :) bookmarked!

Can we drag the boxes to re-order?

Yes, you can.

I’m unable to drag the cards on iPhone.

Ah that was intentional, it disables the sorting on smaller screens. I am working on some UI refinement for smaller screens and will re-enable sorting after that.

its very well designed, bookmarked

Congrats on finishing and launching the project. It is slick! Are you planning to monetize?

The reset button doesn't really explain to me as it will reset to current time.

There’s a lot of dead space. Maybe condense it so more timezones fit on the screen.

I actually quite like the amount of dead space, as most time conversion tools I have used have been filled to the gills with information whereas I am typically only looking for one or two specific data points. To be honest, with many time conversion apps I often even struggle to distinguish a meaningful header, main content, and footer as they will often resemble some sort of industrial ticker. I know, different tools for different purposes, but that is exactly why I like this: it achieves simple comparisons simply.

I’m not saying add more things and information. I’m saying the opposite - remove things (white space) so I can look at more than three timezones changing (which is my use case as I run a ticketing site with venues around the world).

Fantastic. Thank you.

Any way to "pin" the current time so it acts as a live world clock?

Love it!

Would be great if I could adjust height of the boxes to fit more on a page on iPhone.

Please put an ad on this so that it'll always be free and accessible!

You should make it clearer when there's a day difference, as well.

My favourite, has website and app, is https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

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

It says Hanoi belongs to Thailand. That can't be correct.

It's because their official time zone is "Asia/Bangkok". It must be getting it from there.

really nice and clean, one feature I'd like is a colored bar that indicates when it's daylight vs. nighttime in the different time zones

So after comparing time zones, which is your favorite?

San Francisco seems to be missing from the cities list

Yeah, I live in SF but it defaulted to Los Angeles for me. Same Time Zone, of course.

Probably only includes the standard time zone list?

Wow! That's one of my most loved now. Great job!

This is a brilliant tool. Thanks for building.

I love it. The best I have tried so far

Have you considered making it a PWA?

"Oslo, Bouvet Island." :D

I got the same result.

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

Love this, and will use this daily

I love it. Thank you for making it

Typing Arizona yields no results

You can type specific cities (like Phoenix) but I couldn't find any entries for the parts of AZ that observe DST (like Tuba City)

I just use the clock by seense.

I’d like to be able to save :)

Great tool OP, thank you.

love the simplicity of it. All the popular ones fatigue my brain

I've been a big fan of worldtimebuddy[1] for a long time. I book a lot of meetings across timezones and it's makes it very easy to see when a good time for a meeting would be between sydney tokyo and miami as an example

[1] https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Out of curiosity, would you prefer to see all the options laid out so you can quickly scan which ones would be optimal? Or would you prefer to click a button and then it just schedules the meeting for you?

bug report: Apia shows as capital of American Samoa

I use this. You can easily pick dates (and it correctly handles time changes in one region vs the other) and you see the time bands side by side. Finally, it has a great mobile app, too.

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

this is great, will definitely be using it

cute, good job. some color indication on the cards could be nice to make it more visually obvious whether its day or night

In the same domain I used for years timebuddy https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Love this. Simple. Works. Definitely will use. Thank you!!

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

I believe I have already seen this UI recently at

https://www.timezones.digital

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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

Seems one was used as more than just inspiration for the other for my taste...

interestingly, that one misnames Rio de Janeiro as "Vila Rio de Janeiro" which is hilarious, considering the Rio metro area has ~12M people, so a bit bigger than my idea of a village

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)

Your link also has an extra feature that the OP does not.

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.

Getting a location permissions popup the instant you first load a page is an annoyance, imo. Friendlier to leave that as an option you can choose if it looks worth it.

the developer of the timezones.digital here. Yeah, he just stole our design

Hey! There was no intention of "stealing." I did not know who else was involved in the development of timezones.digital, and I did send a message to the designer "Mykhailov" about using it as inspiration. The only reasons for redevelopment were:

- 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!

Domain costed me around $1000 and I purchased it from some marketplace. Regarding the UI, please look at my reply in the thread below.

If you're one of those "give me a terminal or give me death" master race kind of person, then I have a little shell script I use for this:

  % 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

I find it's pretty convenient anyway.

https://github.com/arp242/dotfiles/blob/master/local/script/...

I use something similar, but I use -d "$*" instead of -d "$1" so I can do

    $ dates 4 hours ago

One of two times "$*" had been useful

I didn't know date supported that – can still do that with "tz '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.

Great UI design; clean, intuitive, and useful. Thank you for this!

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.

I'd bet you will never find the answer to this.

Nothing is wrong here in my opinion

What is right about it? He explained the faulty algorithm.

There is an answer to your question [0]:

"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."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I've always been a fan of the https://everytimezone.com interface, which seems like it may have been acquired at some point. Still works brilliantly though!

Yes! I've been looking for this one and couldn't find it! Thank you. Google is useless for finding stuff like this now.

"Every" -- Why no Alaska or Hawaii?

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