Simple free system tray world clock?

**RichardCranium** · 19 January 2010, 08:14

How about this?

http://www.instanttimezone.com/

Shows current time and date in another time zone, in system tray, next to your computer clock.

**Spacecadet** · 19 January 2010, 08:29

Case closed?

**gadgetman** · 19 January 2010, 08:51

Thanks to RC but sadly not.

This one is pretty close but (bizarrely) only shows the hour of the other time zone in the tray - this is not configurable. You do get to see the full time and zone name as a tooltip but this defeats the object. It also shows a floating window with the full time but again this isn't what I was after.

By the way the version originally linked to was old and bombed after a minute or so (this is on Windows 7). The current version hasn't crashed yet.

**RichardCranium** · 19 January 2010, 09:08

I've been wondering ever since I saw your question, how long would it take a competent Windows apps programmer (which I never became) to write such a toy? I vaguely recall that once upon a time the likes of Borland Delphi made things like this trivial.

I would have thought it should - with access to decent development tools - take all of about ten minutes.

**gadgetman** · 19 January 2010, 09:21

It doesn't sound complicated but sadly I lost my Windows programming skills a long time ago (Windows 3!).

Anyone else?

**Sysman** · 19 January 2010, 09:59

Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post

I've been wondering ever since I saw your question, how long would it take a competent Windows apps programmer (which I never became) to write such a toy? I vaguely recall that once upon a time the likes of Borland Delphi made things like this trivial.

I would have thought it should - with access to decent development tools - take all of about ten minutes.

One Delphi book I regretted not buying told you how to do screen savers and stuff like that. Pity, because they seemed to sell well.

**xchaotic** · 19 January 2010, 10:10

A good answer is to get a Mac, of course

A flick of a key launches me into an array of widgets featuring a calculator, 3 clocks for different timezones, weather forecast for those and also a terminal an ftp/scp client shortcut and a calendar too

**gadgetman** · 19 January 2010, 10:13

I can do all that on Windows but you've missed the point.

**Spacecadet** · 19 January 2010, 10:17

Originally posted by gadgetman View Post

As I am currently not located in blighty I like to keep track of the current UK time and would like to see this permanently in the system tray.

I am looking for a simple app that replaces the Windows system clock app in the tray and allows me to show an additional time zone. I have a great addon in my browser called FoxClocks which does this but I don't always have my browser open. I also don't want a 'floating' app, something in the tray would be ideal.

Any personal recommendations?

Personally I think you're being picky
System tray icons are limited to a little square. Just showing the hour is a good compromise as you can get the minutes compontent of the time from the system tray clock (unless it's one of those tricky fraction of a timezone weird places of course)
To show both hour and minutes would probably require two system tray icons But I doubt the application would be able to tell windows inwhich order to place those icons into the system tray inorder for it to make sense.

Given your unwillingness/inability to install .Net or JVM would it not be simpler to buy a world time desk clock (that physically sits on your desk)?

Or you could remember to add/subtract the correct number of hours from your local time. It's not that difficult, even I've managed it

Simple free system tray world clock?