My "1 hour" side project. Feel free to use/steal
Hey all, I got frustrated the other day when I couldn't find any websites out there that could take a UTC/GMT time as a parameter and present what that was in local time, in a clean, clutter free browser window.
Use case: We (and I am guessing most of you) generally post system maintenance or outage notices to your customers in your local time, or UTC time. Users probably want to see what that time is in their local area, so I spent about an hour creating a simple site to do that. (Assuming that you cannot add scripting to your messages to do the conversion in app).
Full details in my blog post: https://devan.codes/blog/2020/2/28/the-server-upgrade-is-when
Feel free to either use the https://localtime.zone site as is, or copy the single HTML/Javascript page and modify for your own use.
That's neat! I like the idea of "1-hour-sideprojects" - maybe we'll make a little hackathon out of that?
One thing that would be helpful for me would be if by default (*) the site would show the current time (in my timezone + utc time). That would it make this my go-to utc clock. ;)
(*) or on https://localtime.zone/now
It's amazing how many times you can pull together a proof-of-concept within an hour. It's when you try to take it beyond just a proof-of-concept that the hours, days and months start racking up 😆
Oh heck yeah! The old 80/20 rule is really in play in these situations. Probably why my hard drive is littered with hundreds of 'proof of concept' project and only a couple of full blown, live projects!
Hey, good idea! Maybe I can make it is there is no ?utc= parameter specified at all, then the page shows current time in both zones??
Dang, that means this may turn into a 1 hour and 10 minute side project! 😅
Yeah, that's what I thought!
Okay, I'll check back in 10 minutes 😁