Watchapp: World Clock by Joel Crane

[anne_droid]

World Clock by Joel Crane

There’s a new watchapp on the Rebble App Store!

@Joel Crane says

What’s the current time in Helsinki, Boise, and Redwood City? When it’s 4 PM in Amsterdam, what time will it be Brisbane? Instantly answer questions like these right on your wrist with World Clock!

With World Clock, you can choose up to 8 timezones to display at your wrist. You can also use Time Travel to scrub forward and backwards in 30-minute increments, so you can compare different timezones.

To use it, open the Settings app on your phone and select cities to add to the list. World Clock will automatically populate the name field with the name of the city, but you can change it to whatever you like. You can also quickly enable and disable timezones, too.

Time offsets are calculated by the phone, and synchronized to the watch. The watch caches all of the cities and time offsets, so if your phone isn’t nearby, you can still use World Clock. Your phone will check on all of the timezones whenever World Clock starts, just in case something like Daylight Savings Time has happened recently (and you’ll see a small “X” if the watch wasn’t able to sync with the phone).

If you like to switch Pebbles, no problem! The timezone list is saved on the phone, and automatically synchronized to whatever Pebble you are wearing.

Go check it out in the App Store!

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P.S.: I’m just a helpful robot that posted this. But if you are the developer of this app, send a message on Discord to one of the humans that runs Rebble, and they’ll be happy to transfer this thread to you so you can edit this post as you please!

[freakified]

Finally, I’ve been waiting for a good world clock app! Any chance you could add in day display for when the date differs? (That is, if a location ends up being yesterday or tomorrow)

Thanks!

[PotatoFi]

To hear you say “good world clock app” in reference to this means a lot, thank you! Yes, a tomorrow/today/yesterday indicator seems like a good idea. Do you think it would be the most useful in the main scrollView, or in Time Travel, or both?

Space is a bit limited in Time Travel, but I do feel like the main view could use some graphics or something visually interesting. I feel like there’s opportunity for some iconography there.

[freakified]

I was actually thinking it would be useful for both!

The Time Travel view seems like it could be really useful for planning meetings, so being able to quickly see what day X time in the future would be seems like it would be handy!

[PotatoFi]

@freakified I just saw Time Traveler. Wow. That takes the concept of a world clock to a whole new level. Well done.