September 6, 2010 at 09:17GMTSlider - sliding between time zones
Many of us work with foreign clients and often have to convert time to different time zones: either find out the current time in several cities, or the offset, for example, what time is it in London, New York and Tokyo, when we have 9 in the morning. For such games over time, gmtslider is designed .
When you open the page, your time zone is automatically added, then you can add cities or specific zones. Pull the slider - we see the time, taking into account the offset. When you have played enough - you can return the sliders at the current time - there is a special button for this.
You can save a link to the added cities / belts, for this we click on the corresponding button and copy the link, bookmark it so that we don’t add cities each time, or we transfer it to your overseas colleague, and he will also know your time difference.
Of the nice little things - a widget that you can hang on your site. We add the cities, click "Get Widget", insert the received code on the page and observe how the time is already sliding on your site.
How can you do without twitter in a modern site - if you follow @gmtslider , send a private message with a list of cities or zones, for example, “d gmtslider London, PST, GMT + 10,” we get the current time: “London: 06:08 AM Mon, PST : 10:08 PM Sun, GMT + 10: 03:08 PM Mon. ”
If you are interested in technical details - the client part based on jQuery, the server part - in Java under the Google App Engine (a paid account is included, here we will see how easy it is to exceed free limits).
When you open the page, your time zone is automatically added, then you can add cities or specific zones. Pull the slider - we see the time, taking into account the offset. When you have played enough - you can return the sliders at the current time - there is a special button for this.
You can save a link to the added cities / belts, for this we click on the corresponding button and copy the link, bookmark it so that we don’t add cities each time, or we transfer it to your overseas colleague, and he will also know your time difference.
Of the nice little things - a widget that you can hang on your site. We add the cities, click "Get Widget", insert the received code on the page and observe how the time is already sliding on your site.
How can you do without twitter in a modern site - if you follow @gmtslider , send a private message with a list of cities or zones, for example, “d gmtslider London, PST, GMT + 10,” we get the current time: “London: 06:08 AM Mon, PST : 10:08 PM Sun, GMT + 10: 03:08 PM Mon. ”
If you are interested in technical details - the client part based on jQuery, the server part - in Java under the Google App Engine (a paid account is included, here we will see how easy it is to exceed free limits).