Chronozone
Productivity
time zone and daylight tool
SHOW HN2016
150points
34comments
#221of 2,264 in 2016
Top 10%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 7 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Design: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clock visualization is intuitive once understood and well designed
From 3 comments
It's great. The 12, 24, and light clock visualization is particularly good. In terms of feedback, only one thing: The first thing I tried didn't work. This was dragging the map…
scrumper on HNThe clock took me a while to understand, but then I realized it's much more intuitive than I assumed and I was reading too much into it. Here's what's going on: - At the center…
niftich on HNI really, really like the clock visualization. Makes me wish for a desktop utility with just the clock.
pYQAJ6Zm on HN
Useful and enjoyable little app
From 2 comments
Very enjoyable little app, OP! Useful too.
ablation on HNNice app, good work OP! I currently use http://suncalc.net for stuff like this, something I really value that Chronozone doesn't seem to have yet is the ability to select…
filleokus on HN
Objections
Clock with 12-hour and 24-hour dials is confusing
From 3 comments
The clock took me a while to understand, but then I realized it's much more intuitive than I assumed and I was reading too much into it. Here's what's going on: - At the center…
niftich on HN>Honestly, the impedance mismatch between the inner 12-hour dial and the outer 24-hour dial confused me at first. Likewise. It took me a second to realize that while the hour…
fluxquanta on HN> It took me a second to realize that while the hour hand on the clock appears to be pointing at the "Astronomical twilight" shaded portion of the ring for my location, those two…
jMyles on HN
Map dragging does not update results; only works near cities
From 2 comments
It's great. The 12, 24, and light clock visualization is particularly good. In terms of feedback, only one thing: The first thing I tried didn't work. This was dragging the map…
scrumper on HNThis is very nice. The only thing I'd like better is if it changed on the fly as you scrolled around (rather than you needing to have the screen stationary).
RankingMember on HN
Does not handle DST
From 1 comment
Doesn't seem to handle DST. Otherwise, great thing! Makes me want to use it everyday!
Jean-Philipe on HN
Does not work in Safari; fields not populated
From 1 comment
I like this a lot. For some reason it doesn’t quite work in Safari on Mac as the fields don’t get populated, but in Chrome it worked very well.
sjmulder on HN
Blue shades invisible with uBlock; crosshair hard to see
From 2 comments
I can't see the blue shades in the daylight clock with µblock running (in Chromium on Linux), so at first I didn't understand what the purpose of the website is, but it looks…
kseistrup on HNtook me awhile to understand it. maybe make the crosshair a little more visible.
tuananh on HN
Requests
Update results live while scrolling the map
From 2 comments
This is very nice. The only thing I'd like better is if it changed on the fly as you scrolled around (rather than you needing to have the screen stationary).
RankingMember on HNThis would be a big improvement, making it much easier to explore the map.
wongarsu on HN
Choose date of year to see daylight
From 3 comments
Very nice. As somebody else mentioned, the length of the day would be nice (it could be a third column of times). The time zone borders map is a bit low resolution so in some…
emilyfm on HNNice app, good work OP! I currently use http://suncalc.net for stuff like this, something I really value that Chronozone doesn't seem to have yet is the ability to select…
filleokus on HNWow, great way of visualising this. I recently moved from Istanbul to Stockholm so this kind of stuff has been on my mind quite a lot. What I’d also love is the ability to see…
Cenk on HN
Show day length and dawn/dusk durations
From 2 comments
Very nice. As somebody else mentioned, the length of the day would be nice (it could be a third column of times). The time zone borders map is a bit low resolution so in some…
emilyfm on HNLove this, good work. Some suggestions (these are my own little quirks): - (desktop) Zooming is on the cursor, rather than on the crosses at the center. Don't know if that's a…
smcdow on HN
Show UTC offset format next to time zone
From 1 comment
This is absolutely brilliant! One thing what I would love to see, next to the timezone info is the actual timezone in UTC+2, etc. format. That way you could for example…
hyperknot on HN
Deep linking and geolocation
From 2 comments
I like it! Two feature requests: deep linking to specific cities/coordinates/whatever, and geolocating me so I don't have to use the search bar first thing.
stilldavid on HNThis is great. It's be good if the lat/lon was updated in the URL so you could bookmark your own city.
shermozle on HN
Questions
Is anything supposed to show beyond a crosshair on Google Maps
From 1 comment
Are you supposed to see anything? I only see a crosshair overlaid on Google Maps. Firefox 47.0.1 on W7 x64
crawlerie on HN
Alternatives named
suncalc.net
From 1 comment
Nice app, good work OP! I currently use http://suncalc.net for stuff like this, something I really value that Chronozone doesn't seem to have yet is the ability to select…
filleokus on HN