Add World Clock to Your Web Browser With FoxClocks
One of the worst parts of working with people around the world is figuring out how long it is where they are.
Making an appointment when everyone is in the same time zone is difficult. Coordinating a meeting with four people in four different time zones is next to impossible, in part because the first thing you need to do is figure out what time you are actually asking these people to meet.
And things get even more complicated when you are traveling in an unfamiliar time zone or you need to factor in daylight saving time, which does not necessarily happen everywhere.
FoxClocks is a Chrome extension that makes it easy to tell the time in your colleague’s city. With the extension, you can enter the countries you interact with most and then continuously display the time in that country discretely at the bottom of the Chrome window.
The idea is that when you send an email to your colleague in England, you can immediately see that it is 10:00 pm and he is unlikely to reply today, or you can schedule this email to your colleague in Singapore to arrive as once when she gets to the office.
This is good for me because I travel a lot and find myself in unfamiliar time zones. My phone can tell me what time it is “at home,” but then I have to figure out what time zone my other colleagues are in New York or somewhere else around the world.
I usually rely on Google or the World Clock on my phone to figure things out, but having it in front of you all the time is much easier.