I decided to start “Time Zoned” after I was doing my first Twitter Space and realizing again how complicated different time zones are. I had some ideas in my mind about how to tackle the problem in a good way. This article just roughly pictures the solution that I want to come up with. Some …
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Why Are Time Zones so Hard to Understand?
Here is the best video I know from Tom Scott about the problems with time zones: youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY He talks about how an app had to figure out how many seconds something happened ago. The problem is: There are so many rules and exceptions. And some of them changed and will change over time, and sometimes …
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Project Initialization
Time Zoned is a simple tool to know what time is it at your friend’s location. Some Facts Why? Because time zones are hard! How? You add a list of your friends with their approximate location, and the tool will try to figure out the appropriate time zone. When? Hard to say. Let us assume …