What time is it...?

IVI on 10/06/2019 - 06:40
Last edited 10/06/2019 - 13:06 by 1 other user

I just want to know what time it is at a handful of places around Earth, Accurately. if possible.

I don't need Atomic Clock accuraby. Just "consistency w/ Computer Time"

Perhaps there's an affordable clock w/ WiFi access to some N/W time svr & a way to correct time(s), as time zones (or whatever) change, by law.

Ideally Concurrent+ConvenientAccess to selected times around the World.

Oh, and it shouldn't cost "an arm & a leg" to do all this.

If it's too costly to buy wall-size clocks, I may settle for a multi-TZ digital clock showing several times or - possibly - showing 1 every two
seconds (with a City name)

DO SUCH BEASTS EXIST, AT FAIR-COST?

Tnx

Poll Options

  • 0
    Of course! AliExpress has "everything" don't-cha know?
  • 0
    Why do you need to know the time? (stop live-streaming; just download)
  • 9
    What exactly is "time" anyway? Do physicists even know?
  • 3
    Look, pound a stick into the ground, at an angle...
  • 6
    Why several TZs? Do you work for CIA or what?
  • 0
    Is your lack of this the reason you were LATE to our last date?!? Men!!!
Home & Garden

Comments

  • epkh on 10/06/2019 - 06:49
    +2

    Now is not the time for
    This, My friend…

  • garetz on 10/06/2019 - 07:01
    +1

    Its dinner time.

  • o53djz7qTPY4der on 10/06/2019 - 07:09
    +11

    Android+iOS
    Support multiple
    clocks.
    As far as
    I know,
    THEY'RE FAIRLY ACCURATE +
    don't cost an "arm
    AND a leg".

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:43

      +1

      Lotsa phones around the place +
      Charger on a timer-switch (so
      as Not to o'charge 1 of them)

      Tnx 4 that!

      Solution 1.0

  • twobit on 10/06/2019 - 07:23

    Cheap android tablet like a pendo

    • Baysew on 11/06/2019 - 13:35

      Almost channeling Elon Musk.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:45

      Had a Pendo, found its app app
      had way too many Gambling apps
      it went back 2 AusPost 4 refund

      • Ryanek on 18/06/2019 - 07:55

        If you have a phone, it's listening for commands right now.

  • apsilon on 10/06/2019 - 07:26
    +2

    www.timeanddate.com/worldclock doesn't cost anything. You can also add additonal time zones to your desktop clock.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:46

      Tnx 4 that (I'll combine it
      w/ Android fone sug (above)

      Solution 1.1

  • biozet on 10/06/2019 - 08:21

    its 8:21 in queensland

    • biozet on 10/06/2019 - 08:21

      am

      • holdenmg on 10/06/2019 - 08:26
        +4

        in 1989… lol

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:47

      No it isn't… :=/

  • tomsco on 10/06/2019 - 08:25
    +1

    I thought this was going to be a haiku for a moment.

  • afoveht on 10/06/2019 - 08:34
    +2

    "On the third stroke it will be eight thirty four and twenty seconds." dit, dit, dit.

  • Ryanek on 10/06/2019 - 09:16

    "Alexa what time is it in XXX?"

    • xoom on 10/06/2019 - 09:40

      Hey sir I.. oh wait eff that. You will probably get that wrong too.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:49

      We don't, as a policy,
      use tools that "listen
      to us" (Alexa & co.) -
      or could do, FAWK

  • bobbified on 10/06/2019 - 09:37

    Dial 1194 from your landline - if you have a landline! :p

    • apsilon on 10/06/2019 - 13:12

      That used to be so useful once upon a time. The only way to accurately adjust clocks etc. I believe the service is finally being turned off later this year.

      • [Deactivated] on 16/06/2019 - 04:37
        +1

        Intended gone by end of this month, three month further reprieve until end of September -
        https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/at-the-thir…

        Time-pips for radio news on the hour also useful - once upon a time…
        :)

        • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:55

          HF Radio used to bring
          eg, NBS' WWV[H, fr HI]
          +occasionally CA's CHU
          time standards.

          AU had 1 In operation?
          If so, Frequencies…?

    • No Username on 10/06/2019 - 22:18

      Works on mobile though?

      • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:57

        Likely telco-dependent

        Also, wouldn't want to
        need to pay for 1 more
        SIM card, 2 be left in
        the Office when I take
        my other phone out….

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:52

      Out only "landlines" are
      unreliable, "VoIP-based"
      that go "Out of Service"
      with power outages, when
      we'd most likely need to
      know what time it is….

  • iforgotmysocks on 10/06/2019 - 09:50
    +2

    That was beautiful.

  • serpserpserp on 10/06/2019 - 09:53

    9:53am in Melbourne atm

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:58

      Not now…

  • Presence on 10/06/2019 - 09:55

    Just buy several solar powered digital clocks? No wifi, chargers or anything needed.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 02:59

      It's for Indoor use

      Will you visit & up-
      date 'em all, twice
      per year?

      We're "Mimimalists"
      here

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:01

      All on 1 screen (optimal)
      -OR- "rotating" (maybeOK)

      • Blue Cat on 18/06/2019 - 08:40
        +1

        Just make multiple browser windows and resize them so everything fits.

  • John Kimble on 10/06/2019 - 11:14
    +3

    Your poll options are not formatted into 50 lines

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:02

      Oy! U're right!
      How could we?!?

      Better -try- to
      make up for the
      error, by going
      <down 2 this #>

  • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2019 - 11:16
    -1

    It's a dyscalculic limerick.

    • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2019 - 11:52

      Do you mean cough Specific Learning Disorder limerick ?

      • [Deactivated] on 16/06/2019 - 04:37

        FR referring to caulilini, none yet grown in Limerick, but maybe just matter of time.

        You seem to be skewing a bit hyper at the moment, JJB.

  • DASH8 on 10/06/2019 - 12:22
    +3

    It's always beer o'clock somewhere.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:04

      N/A

      1st no one here drinks
      2nd it must show times
      in our various offices
      ie, around the Planet.

  • Godric on 10/06/2019 - 13:07
    +2

    Lunch Time

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:04

      What? At 2:34 am?

      • Godric on 18/06/2019 - 12:58

        Clearly at the time of me posting the response.

        Clearly.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:06

      +1

      Not bad 4 up 2 6 TZs
      (couldn't read Fine-
      print to see if more
      TZs are supported..)

  • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2019 - 14:48

    It's 8.48am in Mauritius Sunny,not a cloud in the sky, 20c. Going for a top of 24c.

    • try2bhelpful on 11/06/2019 - 02:01

      Ahh, Mauritius. Magnificent holiday destination. Wonderfully exotic with an overlay of English. Food is Creole so magnificent and wonderful beaches. All in a tiny Island with a great, and cheap, public transport system. They also do sugar cane so they make rum as well.

      • [Deactivated] on 11/06/2019 - 06:25

        Have you been?

        • try2bhelpful on 11/06/2019 - 13:22

          Yup, man had some work over there for 3 glorious weeks. We were in Port Louis, which is a tad “shut” after 3pm but some of the restaurants were still open and there were places at the resorts, if you travelled. Apart from Creole, some of the best Indian food I’ve ever had, wonderfully spiced without blowing your head off. It has been ruled by Africans, French and English and seems to have combined them in the best way. Lovely friendly people who cook like French/African and have the infrastructure of the English. We stayed at a hotel in Port Louis but the private boat took you to the private beaches with non powered stuff included like windsurfing, snorkelling etc. I also parasailed and got dragged behind a speedboat in a big inner tube. (Do not sit on the bottom, it is like being speed smacked - unless that is your thing.) The bus system is extensive and cheap. Great food, great drink, easy cheap transport system and great scenery. Overall, Not cheap to get there and accomodation can be expensive, but great value nonetheless.

          • [Deactivated] on 11/06/2019 - 13:31

            @try2bhelpful: My missus is Mauritian . It is a beautiful country. We're permanently moving there in 2022 so that the kids can get to know there extended family.

            • try2bhelpful on 11/06/2019 - 13:36

              @[Deactivated]: Half your luck, mate; on all counts. Most of the Mauritians I met were gorgeous and lovely people. We really loved the memorial to Queen Victoria.

              The inscription says: "To the memory of beloved and much regretted Queen Victoria Empress of India The Inhabitants of Mauritius.

            • [Deactivated] on 11/06/2019 - 13:52

              @[Deactivated]: *their extended family.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:08

      "It is / are Not
      Raining in Tokyo"

      Source? ..anyone?

  • quietsarcasm on 10/06/2019 - 16:48

    Daiso has desk clocks for $2.80 Now you just need a big enough desk

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:22

      Or, maybe big fixed
      m-a-g-n-i-f-i-e-r-s
      each aimed at 1 clk

  • Zedsdeadbabyzedsdead on 10/06/2019 - 17:26

    It's business time

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZcYPEszN8

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:24

      ;~)

      PS But it's only Tue
      by my computer's clk
      ATM… :-(

  • crentist on 10/06/2019 - 17:31

    swatch internet time for a single unified timezone
    http://www.swatchclock.com/

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:24

      Need more than 1 TZ

      PS AtLeast they use
      nicely slim col.wid

  • GaryG on 10/06/2019 - 19:08
    +2

    I asked a man for the time once and he wrote it on a piece of paper. I have it here so I can look any time I need to know the time.

  • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2019 - 22:52

    Look at the time , IVI. It's that time of night again :)
    Look at the stars,
    Look how they shine for you
    And everything you do.
    Yeah, they are all yellow.
    I came along,
    I penned this song for you,
    And all the things you do
    And it is called "Yellow".

    So then I took my turn,
    Oh what a thing to have done
    And it was all yellow.
    I swam across,
    I jumped across for you
    Oh what a thing to do
    'Cause you were all yellow.

    I drew a line,
    I drew a line for you
    Oh what a thing to do
    And it was all yellow

    Yep, Yellow
    Goodnight:)

    • [Deactivated] on 16/06/2019 - 05:12
      +2

      Remixes

  • Australianjim on 10/06/2019 - 23:13

    I think your looking for an analogue NTP wall clock. Quick google suggests they aren't cheap (although that's subjective).

    • [Deactivated] on 16/06/2019 - 04:41

      Certainly plenty of options kicking around if OP decides to splash-out.

      • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:33

        Wow! I had
        No Idea :#

        Ah, but it
        would need
        a separate
        Escrot svc

        Google got
        if "wrong"

        "Escort Services Wholesale, Service Suppliers - Alibaba
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    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:28

      Most of folks
      in the office
      don't recall,
      how to read a
      clk in Analog

      Ie as I can't
      work out: How
      read sWatch's
      website time,
      :earlier post

  • Triple J on 16/06/2019 - 05:06

    It's Time after Time .

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:34

      OzB really needs
      a add some fonts
      w/ Musical Notes
      that 1 can play!

  • [Deactivated] on 16/06/2019 - 05:12

    Humankind's various attempts to understand time, go all the way back to the 1970's. Amazing, but true!

    Further on, Flavor Flav did know what time it was, though probably only for the specific timezone he was in.

    For anyone who clicked fifth option in poll, IVI regularly in touch with Ham Radio enthusiast bikies around the world - doesn't wish to contact any of them at inconvenient times. Both sensible and considerate.

    Bargain free for anyone using any Android devices -
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chineseins…
    Around since, thereabouts, of some straightforward elegance, and uses near nought any resource, happily running in the background.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:42

      Ham Radio-
      bikies?!?

      I -have- a
      radio, for
      bikes: not
      waterproof
      Better for
      road-sport

      a: FTM-10R

      Wanna Buy?

      Why is app
      rat'g 4.1?

      (It'd need
      a mag'fier
      for us…)

      • [Deactivated] on 18/06/2019 - 20:08
        +1

        If wanting beyond your computer and don't wish to mirror that to maybe a larger screen, for easier viewing, the option of a pretty inexpensive Android box, always on one or other input of a TV - or any monitor, is there for you.
        You can choose whichever World Time app you might prefer to display.
        All bar the cheapest and most shonky boxes, at this stage, will have Google Play Store installed and functioning fine.

        Referring above, absent Gladys, article about The Pips you will enjoy.
        All onboard Enjoy that, too! :)

  • try2bhelpful on 16/06/2019 - 14:30

    It is 6:30 in Paris. Bonjour everyone.

    • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:50
      +1

      Gotta LOVE France:

      • Chef-cooked meals in Schools
        :MM's "Where to Invade, Next?"

      • In part, funded by Revenues,
        from the Gov't-run Nuclear $$-
        spinner + its windfall profits
        after ~half of Germany's nukes
        were STUPIDLY shut Off ie post
        Fukishima

      (No Nuke-waste stored in NPPs'
      parking lots in France - where
      they seem to DO NUCLEAR RIGHT!

      Too bad AU's dim gov't has NO!
      faith in its people to do same
      excellent job implementing NPP
      here…

      We've TIME TO VOTE DIM-WIT OUT
      & replace w/a Merkel-like mind
      (eg B4 Liquid-Fuel MSR arrive)

      YT: "Pedersen TEDxCopenhagen"
      YT: "Thorium Remix 2011"
      or more: ThoriumRemix.com

      "TIME-LIMIT sans sleep O'flow!

      Reducing Life-Support to Level
      requiring less O2.. GO 2 BED!"

      • try2bhelpful on 18/06/2019 - 07:15
        +1

        You seem to be smoking the stuff from Amsterdam.

    • [Deactivated] on 01/07/2019 - 22:07

      Quelle heure est-il ? :)

      • the Unforgiven on 02/07/2019 - 14:23

        What time is it?
        It is not in French thou
        Il et …

        • [Deactivated] on 02/07/2019 - 18:08

          It is how you say it in french. Not sure if @try2bhelful is still in France to give us the time though :(

          Il et …

          It est 10.05 du matin à Paris :)

          Source: The missus speaks french and I learned the language to woo her…then went on to complete part of my PhD in France :)

          • the Unforgiven on 03/07/2019 - 01:14

            @[Deactivated]: I got it wrong then, it has been over 40 years since i did French thou
            I used to fail French in the early years, I did 4 years of it. But in the end I passed French but failed English; go figure (I was born in steak & kidney)

            Learning French made you get the girl, that is very romantic

            • try2bhelpful on 03/07/2019 - 13:49

              @the Unforgiven: quelle heure est-il ?
              Il est dix heure cinq.

              Although I learnt
              Il est dix heure et cinq.

              Currently 5:50 am in Menorca.

              • the Unforgiven on 03/07/2019 - 17:33

                @try2bhelpful: trei bien (I think that is wrong)

                I learnt the second one as well
                (Ain't it meant to be heures?)
                It is more than one hour, so it is plural (I could be wrong again, the 70's was a long time again & many beers & other stuff :) away)

                • try2bhelpful on 03/07/2019 - 18:25

                  @the Unforgiven: Oui, I think I missed the “s”.

                  Tres bien.

                  Tre is three in Italian, so when we moved from Italy to France on one trip my other half asked for Very tickets rather than three tickets.

                  So far this trip we’ve done Belgium, Netherlands, France, Portugal and Spain. We are currently suffering from “what’s the correct word for where we are now” syndrome. I tried to learn Spanish but it didn’t seem to stick very well. It was teaching me useless stuff and not the stuff I need. Yeah, my French was learnt in the ‘70s as well. It is still my fallback language overseas but some local language, gesturing and English seems to get us by. There are also some programs that do direct translations for written items, like menus. Which was great until it showed “woodpecker” for one item. So it is Hola and Buenos Dias from Menorca.

                  • the Unforgiven on 04/07/2019 - 22:45

                    @try2bhelpful: Very tickets :) sun is 3 in Japanese, unless I spelt that wrong too

                    It looks I missed an 's' in tres, I was close ;)

                    That is a good syndrome to have. I had a similar thing when I lived in a bus for 15 years; I had to be wary a few times going for a slash in the middle of the night & I learnt to listen for the sound of running water :)

                    You are having such a good time, and now you are in Menorca? It sounds like fun. I hope you get to see the places you visit, most of the times you won't go back there again

                    With mobile phones now-a-days, they can do translations, can't they? I think English is becoming more prevalent since the 70's due to the world shrinking (you know what I mean). I read somewhere a few years ago that English was not the most spoken language in the world.

                    Enough of this, go back to enjoying life. peace & long life (I am a Trekkie)

                    • try2bhelpful on 05/07/2019 - 04:24

                      @the Unforgiven: My brother is having his 60th in Menorca, with the remaining siblings. My sister had hers in Hawaii, mine will be in Paris. Little brother is talking about Pacific Island somewhere. Unfortunately we lost my oldest brother in a motorbike accident before his 60th.

                      We took the opportunity to do a bit of travel in Europe before the big meet up. Only place we had been to before was France so we are having a lot of new experiences. After Menorca will be Barcelona and Madrid then home to Melbourne winter.we will be the a-holes that have a great tan in the middle of winter. I really hate those people :).

                      • the Unforgiven on 05/07/2019 - 22:03

                        @try2bhelpful: At least the tan won't wash off like the ones you get from Queensland :)
                        I grew up in Melbourne & left in the early 80's, before there was a pollution dome over the city

                        • try2bhelpful on 06/07/2019 - 15:17
                          +1

                          @the Unforgiven: It is a bit six of one half dozen of the other. We’ve got rid of lead in petrol so the affects of pollution might be comparable. Fortunately I don’t live near any of the toxic dump timebombs.

      • [Deactivated] on 04/07/2019 - 23:03

        As happened, and happens now, here, also time for the summit sommet of French Disco House.
        A bowling alley scenario too elaborate for any a 12 year old's party, but time in years to come for that to happen in Mauritius - individual, though x2, mirrorball-helmet-availability, permitting…
        :)

        Outlander alluding to your partygoers, earlier in proceedings maybe having dressed in chicken suits, odd, but the man posts a good air-conditioner deal so I'm just not going to judge.

        Idea (maybe) of J-Twins, and Dad's pondered enrollment of them, in 'The OzBargain Undelivered One Cent Razer Phone School of Hard Knocks'??
        Best to let the kids have their childhood.

        Also best to the pair for their respective Birthdays! :)

        • [Deactivated] on 05/07/2019 - 00:41

          Thank you :)

  • IVI on 18/06/2019 - 03:54
    -1

    Thank-you folks
    for Responsive,
    & fun, exchange

    +We had a Great
    Signal to Noise
    ratio (ie fewer
    complaints over
    "IVI-len. lines
    making it "hard
    to read"

    Ta-DA!

    Nice Thread!

    • o53djz7qTPY4der on 18/06/2019 - 07:54

      Can you explain why you write like this with the shorter lines?

      • AlienC on 18/06/2019 - 09:55
        +2

        Don't
        You
        Know
        The new
        trend

        haha

        pleb!

  • AlienC on 18/06/2019 - 09:55

    Just use your pc.

    I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxclocks/obcbiglj… since I am on my computer most of the time.

  • try2bhelpful on 19/06/2019 - 02:00

    It’s 17:00 in Porto, Portugal.

  • myusername on 23/06/2019 - 08:54

    by a sun dial

  • try2bhelpful on 29/06/2019 - 05:03

    21:00 in Cabisa in Spain.

  • the Unforgiven on 05/07/2019 - 22:01

    Hey OP, have you checked out this android app?

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timeanddat…

  • Euphemistic on 06/07/2019 - 06:49

    Just buy some basic wall clocks. Every time zone will be a multiple of 30min difference from your phone time zone. The clocks will be accurate enough to show within a minute or three and you can exercise your brain to ‘adjust’ the rest based on your phone if you really need the additional accuracy. It’s not hard to look at the clock and see 2:47 while knowing your phone says 11:45.

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