extension ExtPose

Localise Times

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Description from extension meta

Detects times given with time zone abbreviations, and converts them to your local time.

Image from store Localise Times
Description from store This addon detects and converts numeric times which include a timezone abbreviations (e.g. UTC, PDT, CEST) and converts them to your local time. Converted times will have a dotted line below them, and you can hover over them to see the original text. Clicking a converted time will show the original text again. Examples of time that'll be converted: 7pm PDT, 21:34 cest, 9:00 am UTC + 1 Handles ranges of times too, such as 7-9pm CEST / 10am - 6pm PT. You can use the menu button to localise times that do not include a time zone abbreviation. Simply click the icon, and select the time zone used by the times on the page. There's also a sandbox mode, where you can enter any text you like and convert times within it to a chosen timezone.

Latest reviews

  • (2023-04-12) Shaun O'Leary: I livestream a number of overseas TV channels, and this extension allows me to easily convert the TV guides into my local timezone. It's really, really good. The only thing it needs to make it absolutely perfect is the option to save my settings for a given site, so any time I access the site, it is automatically converted to my local timezone right from the start. Absolutely superb extension, thank you very much!
  • (2023-03-03) luke l: works excellent, this is one of those extensions that should be installed for everyone by default. All i hope is that you can make a similar extension for currency conversion, as i have not found one that is as seamless or good.
  • (2022-12-13) Manimanocas: Best one out of the whole WebStore. 1- You dont need to click the extension or select the area, its fully automatic. 2- You can switch from 24h format and 12h format. 3- You can easily see what time was there before and switch the text to it with a click. (my personal favorite). 4- Really good settings. This extension is marvelous! Thank YOU! :)
  • (2022-03-18) Bendik Remøy: Perfect! Only one I found that allows to switch between 12h and 24h clock.
  • (2021-09-23) Ijee: Works pretty good. Well done. Thanks for making the code available as well.

Latest issues

  • (2022-03-09, v:1.28.8) Dan Kollmorgen: Need to localize entire datetime string, not just time portion
    I suffer with a web app that displays times reported in UTC. (For some reason, probably sheer laziness, they don't localize to the viewer's timezone or allow toggling between UTC and local time.) Enter your extension! It is perfect for my use case, except it apparently only localizes the time portion of a date/time string. Unfortunately, this means converted times are just plain incorrect for part of each day, when the output datetime is a different day than the input. From looking at the output in the developer tools, it looks like a simple fix -- you just need to extract and use the full datetime string for localization, instead of only the time portion. You could have an array of regular expressions to detect/extract times in different formats, maybe allowing the user to choose only the one(s) they want in case it's too slow checking all of them. You can see this in the sandbox using the following test string: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:05:02 GMT -> converts to Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:05:02 PM which is wrong -- the correctly localized time is Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:05:02 PM. Of course, this is just one of many datetime formats you should support (e.g. yyyy-mm-dd H:M:S GMT, etc. -- see strftime/strptime format codes for examples/inspiration.) Thanks again for creating this extension! I was tempted to write my own, but luckily found yours first. With this bug fixed it will be even more useful. P.S. I found the source on github and will probably follow-up there.
  • (2021-02-01, v:1.9.0) Andrew Newell: Extension is hard to find for native English speakers
    "Localise" is a misspelling of "Localize" which makes this hard for native English speakers to find this extension. Thanks for the great extension!

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201 history
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Rating
5.0 (8 votes)
Last update / version
2024-03-15 / 1.40.8
Listing languages
en

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