A Better Way to Tell Time
AKA, how I made a fast, ad- and clutter-free world clock slider — built with help from AI, and designed to make global meetings feel less like a puzzle.
Time zone tools are usually cluttered. Too many ads. Too many clicks. Too slow. Too… annoying to use.
So I “made” one that is the opposite. I “made” one that is elegantly fast and simple.
Originally inspired by Alexander Ustinov’s design on Dribbble, then forked from Jon Kantner’s CodePen, I used an AI coding assistant — specifically, GitHub Copilot running Claude — to build the many missing features that my teams and I needed, including:
- Customizable time zone lists
- Adjustable dates (because everyone seems to do daylight savings at different times of year)
- 12/24-hour toggle
- Shareable configs, no sign-in required
Across my teams at my agency, this tool has become our daily go-to. We are rallying across Sydney, Singapore, London, and every U.S. time zone to make global work, work — and we needed a tool that makes navigating all of those time zones fast and simple.
And, with the help of AI, it came together quickly and simply as well.
