If you ever find yourself wondering where it’s going to be 4:20 PM next, know that you’re not alone, and that http://is.gd/fourtwenty was developed with people like you in mind. If you don’t ask yourself this question – I’m sure there are many applications out there for people like you as well 😉
The standard timezone db doesn’t supply an easy answer to this seemingly simple question. It’s not rocket science either: you just process the data into a format that can efficiently answer this question. This is done by running a python script that produces the whole shebang as a javascript file. You should repeat the process every time there’s a new release of the db once in a while, preferably as as a daily cron job (because time zones keep going in and out of daylight-saving time), and download the timezone csv files every time there’s a new version.
Each place has handy links to relevant DuckDuckGo, Open Street Map and flickriver searches, which makes it a fun way to explore the world time zone by time zone (many of which contain a location in Antarctica with amazing photos and wikipedia entries).
It’s even cooler if you have short-term memory problems, because you can learn it all again tomorrow 😉
If you want to help this endeavor, you can fork it and do a better GUI (e.g. it still kinda sucks on phones). I’m lucky there are tools like bootstrap and bootswatch out there, but I’m the first to admit I’m color blind and CSS deaf, so feel free to make it better.
