FoxClocks

Friday, Aug 27, 2010

Keep an eye on local times around the globe. Detailed settings options make online life easier–on an international scale.

Question: If a man traveling at a land speed of 3 mph walks toward a train that left Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal at 11:00 am (local time) and a train leaves Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan station four hours later, what time is it in Bangkok?

Answer: Put FoxClocks on your browser and you’ll know.

After you install the FoxClocks Add-on, the bottom left of your browser window reveals several clocks keeping time in different locations around the world.

If you thought clockwatching was an amateur sport, FoxClocks will set you and your timepiece straight. Go Tools -> FoxClocks and you’ll get the main options window:

“Zone Picker” empowers you to browse time zones with the expert hand of a Farmer’s Market mom extracting perfect produce. Choose based on country, region or city and move zones to your “Watchlist”.

There are many well designed options for configuring things in FoxClocks. You can make clocks appear in a toolbar, or collapse into hoverable icons in your browser window:

Designate clock color and configure it to change during certain windows of time. For example, your Pilipino clock can turn a raging, ring-’em-up red when it’s time to Skype with overseas friends and relatives.

FoxClocks is available in English (both sides of the pond), Belarusian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

And the numerical aspect of time telling allows this add-on even more global reach. So, what are you waiting for? Try FoxClocks today.

Post from Elise Allen, who loves the click, click, click, of this new take on the stately clock. See all posts by Elise Allen.

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  1. kashem

    It is good that every region get their own clock and language.

    August 27th, 2010 at 11:54 pm

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  2. javed

    i will watch it

    August 30th, 2010 at 9:23 am

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  3. mac

    Your add shows the minutes changing from one time zone to another. Since this is impossible, I did not download FoxClocks. Hours and days change with time zone but minutes are according to Greenwich.

    September 8th, 2010 at 8:10 pm

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    1. Nick Nguyen

      Actually, that’s not quite true. There are quite a few time zones worldwide that have 30 and 45 minute offsets from GMT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones_by_UTC_offset

      September 9th, 2010 at 12:52 pm

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      1. Charles York

        Quite right. For example, take a look at the the in New Delhi, St. John, and Kathmandu…

        http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html?sort=2

        Just a small example of the places the clock has odd offsets

        September 16th, 2010 at 4:47 pm

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  4. Constance

    I think I’m going to love this firefox.

    September 10th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

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  5. Intelligent

    Wikipedia doesn’t count as a source for anything, its like telling us its true because Maury or Springer said it. Use Websters at least, or go to one of the time keeper websites. I’m not downloading this thing

    September 18th, 2010 at 4:52 am

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  6. dareczek3

    The FoxClocks is great. I`m from Poland and I`m very happy when I see Polish language in international software. Mozilla offer a lot of adds in my language.

    September 26th, 2010 at 5:29 pm

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  7. pnamajck

    i think the applet / add-on is awesome. does everything it claims to do . . . and more.

    personally, i appreciate the versatility . . . having friends world-wide . . . can easily view different time zones static or upon mouse-click . . . whichever my preference.

    accolades to the developer.

    October 11th, 2010 at 4:10 pm

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