ZoneGlider

Timezone math sucks.

So this app doesn’t do arithmetic. It shows you the planet…

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ZoneGlider at 9:00 am in Los Angeles: the sunrise crossing the Earth's limb, five cities pinned at their longitudes, and each one's clock on a shared 24-hour track

You know how it goes. Someone says “4pm my time”, and now you’re counting on your fingers, opening a converter in another tab, and getting it wrong by an hour anyway because one of you moved the clocks last weekend.

ZoneGlider puts your cities where they actually are on the planet, and lets you drag the daylight across them. Move it forward and 4pm Wednesday in Brisbane becomes 11pm Tuesday in Los Angeles, so you read the answer off the screen instead of working it out.

Dragging time around

Seeing what time it is in another city is just a drag of your thumb. Push it gently and it creeps along; throw it and it covers days.

ZoneGlider scrubbed three hours forward: Los Angeles noon, Tokyo 4am Thursday
The Availability lens: each city's day as flat awake and asleep bands

Who’s awake, without guessing

Every city gets the same 24-hour track, so the rows line up. In Availability the colour tells you who’s awake and who’s asleep, and you set your hours and theirs.

Then send whatever moment you’re looking at straight to Calendar or Reminders.