# Telling the time (was: Ruby Reports Roundtable on Freenode (

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/telling-the-time-was-ruby-reports-roundtable-on-freenode/97376/1 "2006-07-06T18:22:55Z")

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Robert K. wrote:

> The worldclock link I posted earlier is an excellent site for handling  
> that. For example, I put my collection of cities in a URL and have a  
> FF keyword on it - so I just need to type “clock” in the address bar  
> and get an overview page with all city times I’m interested in.
> 
> Sample:  
> [The Personal World Clock](http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html?cities=136,179)

And for a slightly more confusing and less accurate solution, there’s my  
tiny (240x40) clock at the bottom-left-hand corner of this page:  
[http://dave.burt.id.au/time/](http://dave.burt.id.au/time/)

Actually, I find it a handy visualization of the time around the world.

The satellite view of the world and the time zone marks at the top  
remain stationary while the hour marks at the bottom and the attached  
noon and midnight icons and dates shift left a pixel every six minutes  
(or thereabouts).

I’ve marked the PST, EST, UTC and AEST (Australian Eastern, when I am)  
time zones. You can tell the time by hovering over the abbreviations for  
the tooltips, or by reading the adjacent lines down to the time markers  
on the bottom. Of course, don’t forget to add an hour for daylight  
saving (in the northern hemisphere at the moment)!

Cheers,  
Dave