704 instructional ppt timeand date

Beth KovacicLIS 704

All things clock and calendar related

TimeandDate.com

Time and Date AS is a privately held Norwegian company. They operate three websites in Norwegian, German and English. They also have developed the World Clock app for IOS and Android.

Timeanddate.com includes: World ClockTime Zones Calendar Weather Sun & Moon

Timers Calculators This website and the companion apps are particularly useful for

anyone who conducts business or travels internationally. Many of the site’s features are of general interest to just about anyone - including the weather and timers. It can be freely accessed by anyone with internet access at timeanddate.com

Time and Date AS

The World Clock gives you the current time in many cities across the world. You have several options: The World Clock The Extended World

Clock that includes more cities

A search feature to quickly locate the city you need

And a personal World Clock where you can select which cities to display.

World Clock

The Time Zone section includes:• Time zone maps• A Meeting Planner to

help in scheduling conference calls or virtual meetings across time zones

• Time zone abbreviations• Daylight Savings Time

information

Time Zones

Enter the cities where each member is located and enter the meeting date.

International meeting planner exampleA friend owns a business. His salesperson is in Brussels and their main client is in Aukland. He is based in Chicago. They can use the meeting planner to find a good time to hold an online meeting.

The chart will dsiplay the time in each location. Color coding indicates normal working hours, weekend hours and normal sleeping hours.

The Calendar section gives the user lots of options to customize and print calendars of all types, as well as information about holidays and Leap Year.

Calendar

The Weather section has local and global weather information.

Most notable is the past weather feature which shows a chart of the prior 7 days temperatures and winds as well as other historical weather data.

Weather and Sun/Moon cycles

• Count down to any date• Use a kitchen timer or stopwatch

or download the app for your phone

• calculate the number of days within or until a given set of dates

• do time zone calculations• do astronomical calculations

Timers andCalculators

To the right is an example of a date to date calculation.

Simply enter the beginning and end dates and click the “calculate duration” button.

The result is returned in days and in year, month, day format. Alternative time units are also shown to the right.

Example of a calculation - date to date

You can also calculate the business date duration, which does not count holidays or weekend days in the total.

The days omitted are listed at the right.

Example of a calculationBusiness date to date

I hope that you have found Timeanddate.com easy to use.

If you have further questions, please contact me at bkovacic@dom.edu

Thorsen, Steffan. Timeanddate.com. Retrieved March 17, 2016 from timeanddate.com