There is no build in way to display different time zones in Microsoft operating systems. The clock in the system tray will always display the time of the selected time zone. Users have to rely on third party programs or the Internet to view multiple time zones at once. One of the possibilities is a small Microsoft application that can be used to display the times of various time zones in the Windows system tray. The application will pull the information directly from the default time zone list of the Windows operating system which means that every time zone in the world is covered by it.
The user can select the time zones that he wants to display at the same time. By default five time zones are displayed: London, Los Angeles, New York, New Delhi and Sydney. The software program makes use of balloon tips to display the time zones which means that balloon tips have to be activated for the program to work properly. The easiest way to enable balloon tips again is by using Microsoft PowerToys.
It takes one click to display the configured timezones in the balloon tip. A left-click on the system tray icon will display the time zones. A right-click opens up a context menu with configuration options. This can be used to add and remove time zones from the display.
Microsoft Time Zone uses roughly four Megabytes which is acceptable for users who regularly have to check the times in various time zones.
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“There is no build in way to display different time zones in Microsoft operating systems. The clock in the system tray will always display the time of the selected time zone. Users have to rely on third party programs or the Internet to view multiple time zones at once.”
In Vista, right click on the clock, click on Adjust Date/Time, click on the Additional Clocks tab, and you can add two additional time zones to display when you mouse-over the clock.
Yeah I’m still using Windows XP mainly and Vista only rarely because it is the default OS on my laptop.
Perhaps you should install Vista someday ;-)
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5148/ss20090308110949.jpg
Maybe you should update this post to point out this does exist in Vista then!
Vista and Windows 7 both have these displayes.
Being a tech site, i think no matter how your opinions of the OS are, you have to be updated and use the latest.
If you use Firefox, then I would recommend Foxclocks add-on. Slide onto the icon in the lower right hand side of the status bar and you get a pop-up of places and times you have custom configure.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117