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time zones
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with time zones, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Converting meeting times between zones is confusing and one-off errors are rampant2023-11-30
- Converting times requires remembering offsets, daylight saving status, and sign, which is unintuitive2017-09-23
- Interface jumps around, making it painful to use2012-03-21
- Each slider move adds a URL hash, so Back needs many clicks to leave2012-03-21