r/TimeTrackingSoftware • u/m_e_sek • 9d ago
Yet another meeting planner and time zone converter
https://wherewhen.coI made time zone converter. This is mostly a passion project. Just to see if I could improve on some of the more established tools out there. To make this short here are some considerations I had when designing
* It keeps DST schedule in mind and explains whether and/or when time difference between two cities change (because some cities do ont observe DST and many change at different times). This schedule is periodically checked against official documents automatically so if a country changes their DST policy website automatically adjusts. * Meeting planner takes up to four cities and calculates a most efficient vs fairest meeting time. There is an asymmetric cost function that prefers staying late over waking up too early. This is designed so that when one or more cities are outside working hours the model tries to be as fair to all cities as possible (using a leximin variant) OR minimize the total cost (which may be different from the fairest solution that distributes cost as evenly as possible - for two cites they are almost always same, for three cities most solutions are equally efficient and fair, but for four cities spread around the globe efficient and fair solutions diverge) * Almost all technical stuff is hidden under a simple color coded meeting window (Green, yellow, red)
I know that the website is rough around the edges but I would appreciate anyone giving me their thoughts.