Evidently it’s 12 hours behind UTC if you’re wondering. I added it to my list because, well, why wouldn’t you? I’m not sure where this joke started but pretty much all of the online timezone calculators have Anywhere on Earth too. In there I found a funny thing – they list “Anywhere on Earth”. You can search for a city, a country, or even a street name (but I don’t see how that last one is very practical.Ĭlocker also has a list you can scroll through that’s actually not too long. There’s a little plus button in the bottom left that brings up a list of places to add and a search window. Speaking of Settings, this is where you add cities you want to have displayed in Clocker. If you had it pinned and then closed it, Clocker comes back with the keystroke as a floating panel, but if it was stuck to the menubar it comes back that way. You can record a shortcut to pop open Clocker if going all the way to the menubar is too hard. If you’re a dock person, there’s a setting in the Appearance tab of Settings to have it be both dock and menubar app. On the other hand, most of the time you probably DO want it to disappear. When you’re figuring out a meeting time across timezones, and your short-term memory is as bad as mine, it’s not very practical to have to keep clicking a menubar icon for each time you need to remember. Adding Cities and Changing SettingsĮven though Clocker is a menubar app, it can also be pinned on screen as a floating panel. Let’s take a deep look at Clocker and see if it’s for you. Secondly, it’s not discouraging because I don’t know how to write Mac apps so it doesn’t step on my toes. First of all, a web app like my Time Shifter clock is pretty swell, but having this capability in a menubar app is way more useful. This week Pat told me about a really swell menubar app called Clocker that pretty much does exactly what my Time Shifter clock does! Now you would think this would be discouraging to me, but it absolutely is not. One of those people I’ve been showing off my clock to is Pat Dengler. I have, however, continued to annoy my friends and family by showing them every iteration along the way. It works great! We’ve been working on even more enhanced capabilities in our clocks but I’m not ready to show those to you yet. I actually put it up at so you could see it. But this gave me the idea to add this concept to my world clock. Sadly Dashboard widgets were removed with a recent macOS update. There used to be an amazing Dashboard widget called TimeScroller that solved the problem for me, which I first started talking about in August 2009. It’s not that I need to know what time it is right now in another timezone, it’s that I need to figure out what time it will be in another timezone if I shift forward in time. You’ve heard me before talking about this problem before. He’s on the other side of the international dateline so I like to find out what’s happening in the world tomorrow.īut I also often need to meet with people in other parts of the world and figuring out what time we will meet is often quite challenging. It was useful because I could, say change one zone to New Zealand and see at a glance whether Allister was awake yet. I talk to a lot of people in a lot of different timezones so this was a super fun assignment for me. At one point the assignment was to create a set of clocks where the user could see the time in two different cities/timezones and where they actually got to choose the zones to view. These world clocks are web apps, written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
For once I got ahead of the class by adding new functionality to mine before Bart ever assigned that challenge to us. Throughout the last few months Bart has been adding challenges to make it more and more useful. In Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots, our latest assignment has been to create a world clock.
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