Posted by Greg Laden on January 7, 2009 As I’m sure you already know, you can type this into a google search box:
time Minneapolis
and you can put lots of different words in there and get the time.
What you may not know is this. If you look at the page you get back, there is a little clock graphic next to the time. The time on the clock graphic is correct. Like this:
Cool.
Googling weather Minneapolis (or wherever) works too.
I didn’t know either the time or weather trick, and I thought I was OK at The Google!
Never again must I search for “world clock” before placing an international call.
I did not know that, thanks for the tip.
This will be much faster than using a world time website for figuring out when to place my next overseas call. I hate it when I go to call an overseas vendor or customer and after dialing realize I’m calling @ 2:00AM their time. Especially embarrassing when the overseas contact works from home and answers the phone with a sleepy voice.
Way cool! And then you can copy the graphics you get if you want!
Cool. I knew the time difference with China, but I could never remember whether it was forward or backward (even though I’ve been there 2x!).
doesn’t work for Stockholm
There’s a London in Arkansas? I didn’t know that. Cool trick, though.
My favorite google trick is it’s unit converter. I used to work in a brewing supply store, and we sold MANY different sized bottles, some in metric some in US standard volumes. Since people brew their beer in different sizes (although 5 gallons is the most common), they’d need to know how many cases of what size bottles they need to buy.
Something like this:
5 Gal to mL –> 18 927.0589
18 927.0589/750 –> 11.9027452
so the customer would need one case of 12 (750′s are usually sold in cases of 12) 750 mL bottles for 5 gallons of beer!
On Google for:
2G*earth mass/c^2 in angstroms
Mikko: Googling time Stockholm works for me.
The time for London AK, should be 9:41 am. 1899.
That is a very cool little touch. Sometimes I hate Google seeing as I work in internet marketing/SEO but they sure are handy. Been using the unit converter all the time since I started going to the gym, running, watching my diet, etc. Didn’t know how dependent we were on it in my office till for some reason it went down yesterday and a colleague realised he didn’t know how to check word spelling without it…
Google truly is one of the most clever companies out there. Google will rule the world someday.
Have you ever googled “directions from New York to Paris”?
I wouldn’t have started from Long Warf. I would have driven around to Hingham and taken off from there. Better currents, less pollution.
Thanks, Greg. I have to teach a seven-hour class via webmeeting to a group in Singapore Monday (THEIR Monday) and I need to keep track of the time continually so I can let them have breaks, go to lunch, etc. This will help a lot.
Google can do some wonderful things via SMS on your cell phone too. Send this:
time london
to:
466543 (spells GOOGLE)
and you get back the current date and time of London.
Enter a 3-digit US area code and it will tell you the location. Ditto for US Zip codes. Send ‘sushi London’ to 466543 and see what you get back.
It will do arithmetic, driving directions, units conversions, etc. too.
See here for more info:
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/default/sms.html
The post from ‘jj’, above, is inaccurate. I believe he inadvertently divided 8927.0589 by 750 instead of 18927.0859 as it would take approximately 25 750ml bottles to bottle 5 gallons of beer. I only know as I am in the process of buying 750ml Belgian style bottles for some Lambics I’ve made. NBD
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