FoxClocks: global time plugin for Firefox

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 26, 2008 3:18 AM | permalink

FoxClocks is a fantastic Firefox plugin that gives you a little toolbar showing the current time in various cities around the world (you choose). Since the US rejigged its Daylight Savings Time start-date, I keep getting caught out on scheduled phone-calls, assuming that California is eight hours behind me when it's really only seven. Link (Thanks, Sarah!)

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#1 posted by dwm

, March 26, 2008 4:14 AM

Recent updates to the humble system clock in the latest GNOME release (which will ship in the new Ubuntu due next month) add similar functionality -- including a useful day/night world map and local weather information.

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#2 posted by Tesseract , March 26, 2008 4:33 AM

Also, KDE has had this for years in the taskbar clock applet. It's pretty handy.

Although I don't see how putting this functionality inside the browser is useful, except maybe for other platforms who don't have something like this in their desktop environments.

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#3 posted by Haldor , March 26, 2008 8:38 AM

I've been using this for about a year now and it's my fave rave plugin. Easy to use.

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#4 posted by Bryan Price

, March 26, 2008 8:59 AM

Now I need a wider monitor just for my Firefox status bar. Sigh.

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#5 posted by TheFool , March 26, 2008 10:15 AM

I prefer "Converter" myself: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2286 .

You select something in a page, right click, and can convert units, timezones, currency. Works in Thunderbird too (or there's a version for Thunderbird).

This early DST change thing sucks IMO. It's a detriment to the mental and physical health of Americans, especially school kids (and among them, in fact, especially teenagers), to try to get up before dawn. (at least at my latitude, it isn't really light out until 7 or so, and it was of course much worse earlier in the month and last month...)

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#6 posted by TheFool , March 26, 2008 10:17 AM

Hmm, actually maybe there isn't a Converter Thunderbird extension. Oh well...

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#7 posted by LI_Mom , March 26, 2008 10:17 AM

Or you can just use your Google searchbar & get the info that way.

Example: type in: Time London

5:14pm Wednesday (GMT) - Time in London, United Kingdom

London, Ontario 1:14pm EDT
London, Arkansas 12:14pm CDT