I have customers from various cities around the world. Sometimes when I working on a problem, I like to stay focused on it. So if I get an email from a customer somewhere else in the world, I like to know if I need to answer it ASAP (because it is off hours for them) or can it wait an hour or two while I finish up on what I was working on.
I have my iPhone loaded with a bunch of time zones in the Clocks app. This is fine but I need to unlock the phone, open the Clocks app and then click on the World Clock tab (button). Its annoying.
I used to use FoxClocks in the browser but you can only get a limited number of time zones in the status line plus you still need to bring the browser to the foreground to see it. (and yes, you can click on the FoxClock icon in the browser to see a long list of time zones).
The problem is that I want to quickly glance at the time zones without having to go through a whole procedure. Remember, that I may be fixing a bug or deep in thought about some problem or solution. So, I just want to glance at the various time zones to determine if the customer is mid-day or after hours.
A while ago, I wrote a simple application to display the time in various time zones. I made it a skinny vertical panel that I could place on the far right-side of my second (right) monitor.
This week, as a “time to do something different” (did you catch that pun), I decided to add dark mode to my simple application called: World Clocks.
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I haven’t tested in macOS (Mac OS X) or Linux yet. I’ll do that when I have some free time next week.
Once I am happy with it, I’ll package it up for Windows, macOS and Linux and post it to my web site as a free application. i.e. Under the “Licensed As Free” umbrella.
Oh, I almost forgot, it can be configured to be in a horizontal layout rather than vertical. Whether it is in a horizontal or vertical layout, the user can drag the application to any location on the user’s display.
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Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
