Time Zoner

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Inspiration

Under the global COVID-19 situation, many people are experiencing working/studying from home. It may lead to inconvenience when people live in different time zones. Take our team for example: two of the group members live in China(UTC+8), while the professors mostly use Pacific Time(UTC-8) as the school is in California. Since they had to convert all the dates and times on Canvas to their time zone, sometimes there could be confusions and they would miss deadlines. We hope such a tool may help people who need to work with someone living in different time zones.

What it does

This project is a Google Chrome extension that converts the time and date on user’s page, like Canvas page, to the user’s local time zone, so the user can easily remember the deadlines and manage their schedules.

How I built it

In our project, we first ask the user for the time zone they live in and the time zone used on their page, then use a time zone converter API to transfer times and dates on the page to user’s time zone and replace them. We use the Google Cloud API ( link and link ) for time zone conversion and getting city time zones.