You find out about a great webinar and decide you want to register for it. But you are traveling. So you’re wondering, “Will I have to get up in the middle of the night to do this?”
Then you start to figure out the math with whatever tricks you’ve developed. “I know that friends in San Francisco were 9 hours later when I was in Croatia. But now I’m in Portugal, where my family in New Brunswick is only a 4 hour difference. But I’ll be in Cape Town when the webinar happens, so that’s the posted New York time, minus 3, plus 9, minus 1, plus 2…”
Admittedly, it’s not physics or even trigonometry. But getting a time adjustment wrong can be frustrating, and can also cause miscommunications and lost opportunities. So it’s worth asking for help….from your phone of course.
Here are a couple ways that I have relied on my phone for assistance:
World Clock. It’s quick to set up the world clock on your phone, which then enhances your awareness of the globe and feeds your sense of expedition. However, it is only giving you the time right now. You would still need to focus on some math to figure out if the webinar will be during daylight.
Miranda. This is an app that I have recently downloaded and it is perfect for this situation! It’s not just a world clock, but it is a time zone converter. Enter the cities you want to correlate. Then just move the wheel so that it shows the desired time in New York, and it immediately shows you the time in Cape Town. Simple. Bonus: you can even pick a specific date and that way you address pesky shifts to/from daylight savings.
A fun sidebar – In Lisbon, I was at the National Museum of the Azulejo (Tile Museum) and I saw a tile pattern that reminded me of the Miranda logo!
Miranda app logo. 
Tile pattern that reminds me of the ‘day and night’ curve on world clocks.
I am enjoying reading your posts very much Ann, you really are a great writer, so easy to read, and informative, so enjoyable. Gee, thanks for the tip re travel times. I know hubby and I, when we travel, we have often asked the stewardess on the plane what time it is at our destination and change our watches, ha ha!, do you find some airports don’t always have clocks?!!! or perhaps we are blind, we noticed it in a few places that they were “among the missing”…. hee hee., enjoy your time left in Portugal, Valencia next, nice city, I think there is a marathon going on there sometime the first week of December. cheers Ann! and safe travels. Shirley