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World Clock

Several cities at once, or one very large local clock. Daylight saving is handled properly, this year and next.

Press F for fullscreen, Esc to exit.

Time zones that stay right

Zones are resolved by the browser’s own internationalisation data rather than by adding a fixed number of hours to UTC. That is the only approach that gets daylight saving right — and gets it right next year too, when a country changes its rules and nobody remembers to update a lookup table.

It also means city names, ordering and the twelve or twenty-four hour format follow your system’s own conventions rather than an assumption about where you are.

  • A shared screen in an office with people in several places
  • Checking whether it is a reasonable hour to call someone
  • A large local clock on a spare monitor or a tablet

One big clock or many small ones

With the world toggle off, the page becomes a single very large local clock with the date underneath — which is what most people actually want on a spare screen.

With it on, the grid fills with cities and the day of the week for each, which matters more than people expect: it is the difference between "it is nine" and "it is nine, and it is tomorrow there".

Running it as a display clock

Press F for fullscreen. On a phone or tablet, add the page to your home screen and it opens as a clock with no browser interface at all.

It reads your device’s clock, so it keeps working with no connection and never disagrees with the time in your menu bar.

Questions

Does it handle daylight saving?

Yes, correctly. Zones are resolved through the browser’s own time zone database rather than by offsetting from UTC, so transitions are handled automatically — including next year, when the rules change somewhere.

Can I choose which cities are shown?

The ?zones= parameter takes a comma-separated list of IANA zone names, for example Europe/London,Asia/Tokyo. That goes in the address bar, so your set of cities is a bookmark.

Is the world clock free?

Yes — free, no account, no download, no limit. It runs entirely in your browser, so it keeps working if the connection drops.

Does it make a sound when it finishes?

No. Nothing on this site plays audio. The screen changes colour and flashes instead, which is what works on a muted display at the front of a room — and it will not startle anyone.

Can I save my settings?

They are already saved — in the address bar. Every change is written into the URL, so bookmarking the page keeps the timer exactly as you configured it, and pasting the link gives someone else the same one.