[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":150},["ShallowReactive",2],{"tool-content-en-world-clock":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":140,"extension":141,"locale":142,"meta":143,"navigation":144,"path":145,"seo":146,"stem":147,"toolId":148,"__hash__":149},"tools\u002Ftools\u002Fen\u002Fworld-clock.md","World Clock and Time Zone Converter",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":123},"minimark",[9,14,18,21,25,41,48,52,58,61,65,76,80,83,87,90,94,99,102,106,109,113,116,120],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"what-this-tool-does","What this tool does",[15,16,17],"p",{},"Two views of the same clock. The world clock keeps a card for each city you add, showing the local date, weekday, UTC offset and how far that city sits from your own time. The converter takes one moment in one zone and reads the same instant in every other zone you are tracking.",[15,19,20],{},"Both views share the same city list, so adding a city updates the cards and the comparison table at once.",[10,22,24],{"id":23},"why-an-offset-alone-is-not-enough","Why an offset alone is not enough",[15,26,27,28,32,33,36,37,40],{},"A time zone is not a fixed number. ",[29,30,31],"code",{},"Europe\u002FLondon"," sits at UTC+00:00 in January and UTC+01:00 in July, while ",[29,34,35],{},"Asia\u002FKolkata"," stays at UTC+05:30 all year and ",[29,38,39],{},"Asia\u002FKathmandu"," at UTC+05:45. Regions also change their rules over time, so the offset that applied a few years ago may not apply today.",[15,42,43,44,47],{},"This tool asks the browser's own time zone database, addressed by IANA names such as ",[29,45,46],{},"America\u002FNew_York",", instead of using hard-coded offsets. That is why each city's offset is computed for the exact instant on screen rather than looked up from a table.",[10,49,51],{"id":50},"times-that-do-not-exist","Times that do not exist",[15,53,54,55,57],{},"When a region moves its clock forward, a slice of wall clock time is skipped. In ",[29,56,46],{}," the moment 02:30 on 8 March 2026 never arrives, because the clock jumps from 02:00 straight to 03:00. Entering a skipped time is reported as an error instead of being quietly shifted, so you always know whether the moment you picked is real.",[15,59,60],{},"The opposite happens in autumn, when the same wall clock reading occurs twice. This tool resolves a repeated time to the earlier of the two instants.",[10,62,64],{"id":63},"reading-the-comparison-table","Reading the comparison table",[15,66,67,68,71,72,75],{},"The table below the converter lists one row per tracked city for the moment you entered. A row can show ",[29,69,70],{},"Yesterday"," or ",[29,73,74],{},"Tomorrow"," when that instant lands on a different calendar date, which is the most common source of scheduling mistakes. Working hours are highlighted, based on 09:00 to 18:00 on weekdays in that city.",[10,77,79],{"id":78},"finding-a-meeting-time","Finding a meeting time",[15,81,82],{},"Enter the moment you have in mind in your own zone, then read down the table. Nudge the time until every city you care about falls inside working hours. Because the table follows the instant rather than the wall clock, switching the source zone keeps the same moment and only relabels it.",[10,84,86],{"id":85},"privacy-and-security","Privacy and security",[15,88,89],{},"All calculations run locally in your browser. The cities you add are not uploaded, stored, or written into the URL. The tool reads your device time zone on load so it can mark your local city, and that value never leaves the page.",[10,91,93],{"id":92},"frequently-asked-questions","Frequently asked questions",[95,96,98],"h3",{"id":97},"why-does-a-city-show-an-offset-i-did-not-expect","Why does a city show an offset I did not expect?",[15,100,101],{},"Offsets change with daylight saving rules. Check the date you are converting: a July meeting in London uses UTC+01:00, while a January one uses UTC+00:00.",[95,103,105],{"id":104},"what-if-my-city-is-not-in-the-list","What if my city is not in the list?",[15,107,108],{},"The list covers the IANA zones shipped with modern browsers. If your device reports a zone outside that list, it is still detected on load and displayed under its identifier.",[95,110,112],{"id":111},"how-are-working-hours-defined","How are working hours defined?",[15,114,115],{},"From 09:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday, in the city being displayed. It is a hint for scheduling, not a statement about how anyone actually works.",[95,117,119],{"id":118},"does-the-clock-keep-ticking","Does the clock keep ticking?",[15,121,122],{},"Only while the Live switch is on. Otherwise the reading stays put until you press Refresh, which makes it easier to study a single moment.",{"title":124,"searchDepth":125,"depth":125,"links":126},"",2,[127,128,129,130,131,132,133],{"id":12,"depth":125,"text":13},{"id":23,"depth":125,"text":24},{"id":50,"depth":125,"text":51},{"id":63,"depth":125,"text":64},{"id":78,"depth":125,"text":79},{"id":85,"depth":125,"text":86},{"id":92,"depth":125,"text":93,"children":134},[135,137,138,139],{"id":97,"depth":136,"text":98},3,{"id":104,"depth":136,"text":105},{"id":111,"depth":136,"text":112},{"id":118,"depth":136,"text":119},"Compare current time across major cities and convert any moment between IANA time zones. 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