From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T00:50:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Reports Roundtable on Freenode (2006.07.08)

2006/7/6, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>:
> On 7/6/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
> > Next week's Ruby Quiz:  find out what time it is where Greg lives.
> > (This is an expert-level problem.)  ;)
>
> problem is, I am someone who abhors clocks (JEG2 knows this, via my
> complaints of the over abundance of them in his home), so I have hard
> time... telling time.
>
> I've accidentally miscalculated the easiest possible conversion many
> times so far this summer, eastern to pacific.  Sorry to my SoC mentor
> for that! :)

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:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html?cities=136,179

Kind regards

robert


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