World clock - see what time it is where your providers / buyers are

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Submitted Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:40am GMT
james_cooper 10 posts

One thing I've learned since I started using odesk: I have a complete inability to do timezone math in my head. I'm GMT -700, they're GMT +530. What time is it there? Who knows.

Solution:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/setpersonal.html

You pick the cities you're interested in, and they set a cookie on your browser.

Result: you have a personalized web page with the local time in the cities you care about. Problem solved.

Hope that helps someone.

-- James

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GWorldClock Submitted Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:53am GMT
pkalimuthu 474 posts - India - Joined Mar 07 2008

I was using timeanddate.com before switching to GWorldClock applet available in Ubuntu 7.10.

Pothi.

wait about 9 hours... Submitted Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:49pm GMT
mlevinson

487 posts - United States - Joined Oct 17 2006

...an upgrade to the Team Room UI is being launched tonight, and it will show the local time for each of your team members.

Good timing!

Michael

Hi Michael, Ah, that's Submitted Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:24pm GMT
james_cooper 10 posts

Hi Michael,

Ah, that's excellent!

"Good timing" - no pun intended?

-- James

I not only have to deal Submitted Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37am GMT
jpittenger

3708 posts - United States - Joined Jan 07 2008

I not only have to deal with working with people in other timezones - but I frequently change timezones myself. So remembering the relative time difference is impossible.

I love the new timezone feature of the new Team Room. And think that will be perfect for most users. But I have to calculate times not just for work, but to talk to friends and family as well. So here's my two solutions:

FoxClocks - (FireFox only) displays the current time in selected timezones in the FireFox status bar.

TimeScroller - (Mac/iPhone only) shows the current time in selected timezones on my dashboard - and lets me scroll ahead to see what time it will be.

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