This free time-zone conversion tool blows other clock apps out of the water
This minimal, frills-free website will make your life instantly easier.
BY JR Raphael
You’d think by this point in our lives, we’d have the whole time-zone-conversion thing figured out. It isn’t all that complicated, right?!
And yet—well, trying to keep such calculations straight often feels like performing advanced algebra. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve tried to convert something from my own local time into another time and ended up screwing it up somehow (and I’m only moderately pea-brained, thankyouverymuch).
Today, I want to show you a deceptively simple tool that’ll save you from ever making such a silly misstep again. I probably lean it at least once a day, on average. And it’s saved my hide more times than I’d care to admit.
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Meet your new time-zone conversion wizard
Whether you’re messaging with someone in another part of the world, scheduling an email for a colleague or companion across the country, or working with a wonky web interface that insists on using some nonlocalized time as its default, you’re bound to run into some tricky time-zone transformations sooner or later.
? And with the aptly named Dateful? site in your pocket, you’ll never risk screwing such conversions up—or even just wasting the time to think through ’em on your own.
? Best of all, this thing couldn’t be much easier to use. It’ll take you about 10 seconds to perform most calculations, and it won’t cost you a single dime to do.
- Just open up Dateful.com in any browser, on whatever device you’ve got in front of ya.
- Click the “Time Zone Converter” link at the top of the page. (You can also save this link to skip the main menu and go directly to that tool, if you want.)
- Use the boxes on the screen to set the time zones you want. You can keep one of ’em as your current local time or set ’em both to specific static values, and you can then change the time on either side for an instant and effortless conversion.
It’s simple, minimal, fast, and effective. But Dateful has a bunch of extra tricks up its sleeves beyond those basics, too:
- On that same screen, you can hit the Copy Link button to share the same exact conversion with anyone else.
- Here’s a link to the one I did in the illustration above, as an example. You’ll see the same conversion in your own local time zone as soon as you open it!
- As long as you’re using the same browser on the same device, Dateful will also save your most recent conversion and keep the time zones the same the next time you load it—a convenient little touch.
- And if you’re really feeling saucy, you can tap into similarly simple Dateful tools for sharing time-zone-friendly event-creation links, for viewing numerous world clocks on-screen at the same time, and for scheduling across multiple time zones in a visual view.
‘Bout time for a fuss-free way to do this sort of stuff, wouldn’t ya say?!
- Dateful works entirely in your browser, no matter what browser or device you’re using.
- It’s completely free and supported by a small number of minimal ads.
- And it doesn’t require any sign-ins or collect any manner of personal info.
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