New Article and calling Down Under
In the time I've been running this site I've had quite a few people offer to write articles for it. Which is nice. Not many people follow through. Which doesn't bother really as I know how hard it can be to find the time. It's really nice when people do though. Today I've published an article written by Erwin van Hunen and his colleague Mark Leusink. The kind of thing I like - nice and simple and easy to re-use.
Most of the business I see myself doing in the near future will be with international clients. Mainly American but also a few Australian clients. While most communication will probably be e-mail based it's always nice to have a phone call at the outset. Just to introduce yourself "in person". Tonight I am calling Australia. The call will be at 23:30 my time and 09:30 (Wednesday) theirs. It took me a while to work this out and had to resort to this map of world times. What I want is one of those cheesey clocks you see in offices with the shade of night that moves across a map of the world. Shall add it to my list for Santa.
To make the call I will be using Tiscali SimplyDial, which lets me call the other side of the world for the price of a national call. I don't normally trust these "too good to be true" services but I know people who've used them before so it should be ok (famous last words).
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Do you have a PDA? Does it have a clock application? - My sony clie has the ability to show times in three different countries - I've set the clock to show Ireland, NZ and the last country I visited. I did see a PDA (m515?) having a map of the world and it shaded parts of it to show who was suppose to be asleep.
Here are a couples links to websites that show times in other countries:
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Richard, no I don't have a PDA. Maybe I should though. I've always been put off by the fact that it's an extra complication in my digital life. More plugs. More wires. More separated data locations. etc.
There's only so many address books one man can cope with ;o) Plus, they are so darn expensive!
I've been to a few companies with those clocks - never seen a working one yet.
Best stick with the web site!
---* Bill
Noted Bill. Was wondering how they kept up with the complex world of DST...
PDAs... if you do get one, don't use IBM EasySync to synchronize it with Notes 6. It's flaky at best. Try mNotes by Cadenza, which is about twice the price but more reliable.
I'm a newcomer to PDAs. They can be useful, but I'm not using mine as much as I thought I would.
PDAs, no matter the OS can use Wi-Fi, so you can do the sync without "wires" Jake.
I even used mine to sync using IR, and it worked fine.
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Speaking of clock, what do you think about this :
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My mother doesn't get it...
Jake,
I use {Link} as it lets you create a list of cities to display local time in each.
Cheers
Justin
I built a clock like that for an intranet for a company with offices around the world in their personnel directory. When they were looking up names of someone to call in Australia, they would know if the office would be open.Worked in notes as in web!
Laurens, don't tease us like this. Can we not see the code?
Jim,
Regarding mNotes, can you "replica" custom notes databases onto the the Palm OS PDAs? (I think you can do this on the PocketPCs, but we dont have/use 'em).
Jake, with the PDAs, you can play music on them - so you could replace that apple thingy you have! :-)
Why not use a Palm emulator (available from somewhere on the Palm site) and install the world clock on it - or any lock for that matter. I have a m515 and most of the day it sits in the cradle with a nice big clock displayed which makes it a bit easier to read the time compared with the tiny one in windows.
Phil.
PS. I'm "down under" and I was reading this post yesterday at 9:45a our time which was probably the same time you were on the phone!
So, just out of curiousity, how did these international clients come along? Especially the Australian ones...
And it puzzling sometimes working out the +8/+10 Australian timezones.