Geeky Traveller

It sounds like it should be a no-brainer, but the truth is that sometimes when you change time zones, it can get complicated trying to keep track of the time difference. That means you might call your mom to tell her how beautiful the ocean is, while forgetting that it’s only 5 am back home. Worse, if you’re traveling on business and have to schedule a conference call for multiple offices in multiple time zones, you can burst an artery trying to find the right time slot to fit everyone.

If you use the excellent Firefox browser, you can download the FoxClocks add-on. It helps you to keep track of multiple time zones via small clocks that sit in the browser status bar. You can keep them distinct by setting each as a different color (say, green for the office back home, blue for head office on the other side of the country, and red for your current traveling time zone).

You can also set the clocks to change color at a specific time. For example, perhaps you need to call your boss at 10 am, home time. Set the home clock to turn yellow when it’s 10 am in that time zone and you won’t have to keep obsessively checking your own watch and subtracting the time difference.

It’s a tiny little add-on but it could erase a lot of time-based headaches when you’re traveling outside of your own time zone!

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