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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: charlotteCH on Saturday 29 March 08 03:29 GMT (UK)
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Does anyone know the name and/or url of a freebie, downloadable program that tells the time in locations other than where one lives?
I make overseas phone calls, and whilst I can find the time at the o/seas destination by going online and checking, it would be simpler to be able to do it on the pc instead of online.
Any ideas anyone?
thanks,
charlotte
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Hi Charlotte,
l just googled time difference, then l am in Australia. It will bring up a few to choose from.
Jean
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Hi Jean,
Should have thought of that- thanks. If in doubt ... google, I guess is the lesson.
Thanks again,
charlotte
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Hi Charlotte.
As you didn't say from where to where was easier to say google that way you can choose the countries.
Jean
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Googling produced a little program called Time Zone Clock that seems to meet what's needed.
There were quite a few freebies there it seems.
charlotte
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This may not be what you want, but http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock shows world times online, (about 140 world locations are shown on the main page) and can be customised for anyone individually.
It MAY even have something that can be set up on a PC whilst offline, although I haven't looked into that.
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Assuming that you are running Windoze, it's just a simple matter to right click on the time in your systems tray, then go to <adjust time/date> then <time zone> and select the area you need. Then just reverse back to your local time zone when you have the information you need.
I deal with two or three different time zones which I so far have the mental ability to retain but it does get a bit confusing at daylight saving time and that's when I tend to revert to the above suggestion.
It just saves another bit of software on the pc to go wrong.
Alan NZ
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Alan, You're a cheery soul about things going wrong on the pc- but you are quite correct. When the pc is good it's very good but when it goes into a bad mood it's really grim.
Thanks for the idea of all that clicking but given my brain I think I'd put the whole thing into a spin. The beauty of the little program, Time Zone Clock, I found is that it chugs along when offline which suits me fine. It's very basic but that fits in well with eveything else around.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions and help.
charlotte
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Hi there,
Chorlton has a good one.
Another that is good is http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/helpfulInfo.do?category=info&item=worldTime .
As far as I know this should work from any where in the world. It seems to when I pretend to be in UK :) It also give a printable comparison to keep at your desk :D
Cheers
Robert
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Another one to add to the list is Qlock
http://www.qlock.com/
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Thanks Falkryn, Robert, Chorlton for your helpful suggestions. And my overseas cousin would say thank you that I am no longer phoning them when they are tucked up in bed asleep.
Thanks again,
charlotte
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Hi Charlotte,
What I do is to double left click on the time on your toolbar.
( Where you alter the time/date etc on your computer) Date and Time properties
will appear. Click on the time zone TAB. A map will appear. Left click on the " V"
at the sde of the line that says Greenwich Mean Time. A list of all the time zones will appear
with the +/- hours that you need to adjust our time to theirs. Scroll up and down to pick
the nearest time zone to the location you are phoning. This is on Windows XP but should
work on other operating systems.
Tomkin :D :D
P.S. and while you are at it, correct your computer clock.... it's wrong ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Tompkin,
Thank you for the step by step explanation which is needed for me- and I haven't corrected my clock yet.. sorry about that. Will get to it after looking at rootschat..
charlotte