Time.is

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from Time.is's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 50 ms.
• Security2 / 50 of 5 protective headers set.
• Privacy4 / 51 third-party tracking service found: Google Analytics.
• Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.

83% of the 12 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Time.is; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works

• Positive

  “I'm not saying it's very useful, but if you see it on your desktop and want to check it or save it on your phone (to verify the time on your phone/QR-and-web-enabled mobile device, to bookmark it for future reference…”

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• Positive

  “Here&There time comparison in different time zones is the best I have seen. Full page calendar with multiple months is very simple but works great for me. This is becomes my favorite site for time/date related stuff.”

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• Critical

  “All things considered it is not such a bad estimate of the time. It looks like it makes it queries the local clock three times to get an estimation of the clock deltas and network delay ”

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• Critical

  “Time.gov is slow and ugly and doesn't work on my phone. Fuck time.gov.”

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Threads: Time.is (2012, 107 comments) · Time.is (2015, 5 comments)