gHacks technology news » timezone http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Look Up Local Time, Date And Weather Of Any Place In The World http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/09/look-up-local-time-date-and-weather-of-any-place-in-the-world/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/09/look-up-local-time-date-and-weather-of-any-place-in-the-world/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:02:16 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16151 local timeLooking up information like the local time, local date or local weather can be helpful in certain circumstances. Maybe you are planning a trip to another location and want to make sure to be prepared, maybe you do not want to miss the important video conference with that other company from China (or another country) or maybe you just want to know if you can call your buddy in the United States right now or might want to wait another few hours to do so.

Local time can be very important in these circumstances and probably several else. There are a lot of software programs and browser add-ons that display multiple time zones to the user. Firefox users for example can install the excellent computer alarm clock and timer Simple Timer which displays a clock in the Firefox status bar.

Localti.me is an online service. The major benefit of it is the fact that it can be used to quickly look up the local time, local data and local weather without installing and software or plugin. All it takes is to enter a country, state or region to get the requested information. The service will display suggestions as soon as the user begins typing in the name.

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The results page will list the local time, local data and local weather along with other information about the selected location. These other information include maps (taken from Virtual Earth), Wikipedia information, the latest headlines, traveling information and pictures taken from Flickr and Panoramio.

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Localti.me (via Make use of) is a nice to have service for quickly looking up the local time, date or weather of a location in the world.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/09/look-up-local-time-date-and-weather-of-any-place-in-the-world/feed/ 5 Microsoft Time Zone http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/08/microsoft-time-zone/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/08/microsoft-time-zone/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:43:00 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=11007 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.

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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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