Timezone Visualisation

Timezone Visualisation
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#1

Hey, I created a little javascript widget to visualise each of our working days against eachother.

I can add more people, but have included a few examples.

Just wondering where to put this? Ideas? Hate it?:

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NB It sorts, with people sent to the top who are closest to their midday.

White is local midday, black is out of hours. The red marks current time.

The numbers are based on GMT. These could just as easily be hidden as are meaningless for most.

It’s very approximate and uses a sine wave raised to the power to create the ‘heat map’.

It’s pure javascript (w/ HTML and CSS) at the moment with hard coding and not integrated with Groups and Users, but could be, e.g. fixed banner widget that shows all users in Group x.

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#2

That’s cool @merefield nice work! There’s a discourse-international-team-collab-plugin in there somewhere!

Weird that time difference is so hard to perceive without aids though isn’t it? Especially when more than one time zone in play - we have 4 (so far!) and it’s pretty difficult to find a time that is remotely civilised for everyone.

What’s even weirder is the hours some of us keep… so actually even though the clock says ‘out of hours’, that is often the best coding time, nobody ‘local’ bothers you and there’s less cortisol flying about… Maybe a graph of that would bring some insights too

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#3

Yeah, I was gonna say, we both just broke the widget :smiley:

#4

It’s definitely one for Ideas. This has huge potential. Like Doodle but for timezones, integrated into Discourse.

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