Announcements

2025  •  November 15 Announcements now live in-house, on this page. Previously that service was provided by Twitter/X (https://twitter.com/#!/worldtimebuddy)
2022  •  May 5 Paid subscriptions have been discontinued. All features are now open to everyone! Full announcement text: https://t.co/RYbhooTw3R
2019  •  December 18 Resolved. The root cause turned out to be that the upgrade process also assigned us a new public IP address while the DNS remained pointed at the old one.
2019  •  December 18 Site is down. Did not come back after HW upgrade. Investigating.
2019  •  December 6 Update: The site is back to normal. Both the login issue and the website's preceding downtime have been resolved. Appreciate your patience!
2019  •  December 5 We are currently investigating a perplexing issue with Time Buddy. While the site remains operational, unfortunately, login functionality is disabled until we find a resolution. Apologies for any inconveniences this may cause; we are doing our best to enable logins asap!
2016  •  August 4 New version out for Android! Integration w/ calendars, pull-and-swipe to next day, cleaner UI, fixes. https://t.co/V4NQd3IPGt
2016  •  April 29 New version out for iOS! Cleaner interface, integration w/ calendars, iPad support! Get it: https://t.co/SyWoC8edJL https://t.co/pL8fEgA0rk
2016  •  January 13 Small update: as of next release WTB mobile app will integrate with device calendars. Working on finishing touches, bugs and optimizations.
2015  •  August 25 UX update: hour tiles stitched into day-long bands. Check it out: http://t.co/ObhKYNn5JY. Roll-out to mobile apps in the near future.
2015  •  March 12 Folks, the site is down. Our hosting provider is recovering their system-wide outage now. Should be back online soon. Apologies...
2015  •  March 4 Recently updated UI for unified look-n-feel with mobile apps. Added "go to next day" button to the right of the hour lines + misc fixes.
2014  •  June 5 Added #FifaWorldCup schedule to WTB. Shown over hour-tiles for easy conversion to any timezone http://t.co/lSMmJgn8w2 http://t.co/SfDmglPAOk
2014  •  February 23 @ofixler yes, unfortunately the site was down. Tentatively restored now.
2013  •  December 29 @skwashd thanks! Could you please try again? We have updated the app. Android screen compatibility settings are a mess :(
2013  •  December 29 V1 Android app is out for Android 4.0+ phones (no tablets yet). Get it here: http://t.co/V4NQd3IPGt. Appreciate bug reports/feedback!
2013  •  December 15 Added option to sign in with email/password & enabled SSL. Extra features if logged in: rename locations, overlay Google calendar.
2013  •  October 11 V1 iPhone app is out! Familiar UX, DST, 20K locations & ability to schedule meetings. Full feature parity over time > http://t.co/QH8FTPK4jR
2013  •  July 26 iPhone app coming soon (~80% complete). Android to follow. Also, can now search for and add GMT offsets (i.e. GMT+1, GMT-8) as locations.
2013  •  February 24 New: view your Google Calendar right in WTB, above the hour-tiles (enable under "Settings"). Feature's in beta and feedback's appreciated.
2012  •  December 21 @PagodaBox intermittent outages today from 3pm PST. Sent email to support. Looks unrelated to the application.
2012  •  December 3 Forex market schedule right in WTB. Click "Forex" in toolbar to open. A gift to @ForexFactory users who were among the vry first to try WTB.
2012  •  November 13 @PagodaBox system-wide failure? http://t.co/8Wix2iL2 seems to be affected along with our site.
2012  •  October 17 To further minimize confusion, WTB now highlights (in blue) dates behind/ahead that of home location. Same for event pages/widgets.
2012  •  September 4 @zkhan we intend to fix this in some of the upcoming releases. Thanks for surfacing it!
2012  •  September 4 Update: Clock widgets now support custom background colors & location renaming - http://t.co/kb1FvDT2. Thanks!
2012  •  July 22 By popular demand, got a new clock widget out. It's like a mini-WTB that you can put on your pages. Check it out @ http://t.co/kb1FvDT2
2012  •  June 22 @eldang thanks for noticing! A small bug got through with the most recent update. Now fixed.
2012  •  June 15 Outages appear to be completely resolved byn ow and WTB is back to full functionality!
2012  •  June 14 @colwinf thanks and thanks! :)
2012  •  June 14 AWS/@phpfog outage still affecting DB. We wired WTB with a new DB for now. Site works but sign-in is disabled... Better than nothing :(
2012  •  June 14 @colwinf According to @phpfog, partial Amazon outage at fault. Folks are working on it. Unfortunately, these things happen...
2012  •  June 5 Gift to soccer fans: Euro 2012 portal listing match schedules in your local timezone with scores & group standings - http://t.co/Of5v6xdn
2012  •  May 21 Widgets are now in the site menu & support events crossing day boundaries - http://t.co/gEvC3Jzd. Got ideas for other widgets? Let us know!
2012  •  April 2 News: (1) Run WTB within your site *beta* http://t.co/gcfzLqEM (2) More popular timezones added: EET, WET, BST, IST, etc.
2012  •  January 27 New: widgets! Setting up an online event? Widgets will auto-convert it to your visitor's local time. To create: pick time, click the "gear".
2012  •  January 6 The new inline calendar simplifies scheduling with 1-click jumps to nearby dates. Let us know what you think. Thanks!
2011  •  December 11 Completely revamped meeting page that adapts scheduled time for each viewer; can specify own event title/details. Ex: http://t.co/a2ClI95B.
2011  •  November 13 Weekend highlighting feature now supports countries with weekends on days other than Sat and Sun + various fixed based on feedback.
2011  •  November 3 New stuff: (1) day indicator over the mid-night hour and (2) highlighting of the current hour as you move the selector. Thnx for the feedbk!
2011  •  November 3 @AndrewGrill MST zone currently has DST on so WTB shows MDT time instead. Using actual location (i.e. Phoenix) will give correct time.
2011  •  November 1 Mixed mode debuts today. Allows different hour-formats per location. Should help folks not used to converting between formats on the fly.
2011  •  September 29 Date selection should become less tricky with the newly added "jump forward/backwards" buttons. Thanks for sending the feedback!
2011  •  September 22 Check out our new "Features" page to discover useful existing WTB functionality you may have overlooked: http://t.co/ir4GvAAR
2011  •  September 3 New stuff: (a) highlighting of weekend hours to easily tell them apart from work-days (b) partial AJAXification + several fixes...
2011  •  August 26 Your WTB preferences are now portable! Sign in using Facebook or Google and you can use the same settings across computers.
2011  •  July 16 By (very) popular request, we have added timezone names next to locations + option to turn them off. Please keep that feedback coming! :)
2011  •  July 10 Consolidated location and time-related actions into one toolbar. It's also a step towards new features. Stay tuned ...
2011  •  June 12 Scheduled times can now also be shared using Gmail/Google Calendar or copied to clipboard. Switched out "About" page for "FAQ". Perf fixes.
2011  •  May 29 New: Flexible home location (i.e. at any position) + regions for Canada and UK + various tweaks & fixes for issues you reported. Thanks!
2011  •  May 23 Added faster and smarter search that's less picky (i.e. finds GMT). Fixed Tomsk timezone and some spelling -- all based on your feedback!
2011  •  May 16 @lifehacker + @hackernews + others = WTB down. Too much traffic is a good problem to have :) The site is back now. Apologies to all...
2011  •  May 16 The site may feel sluggish/slow due to recent traffic influx from http://news.ycombinator.com. Love & hate :) Working on resolution...
2011  •  May 14 Thanks @shanselman and others for your praise and spreading the word on WTB! User experience is so often overlooked by developers...
2011  •  May 13 Added US timezones as locations, per your feedback. Search using abbreviated or full name: "PST" or "Pacific Standard...".
2011  •  May 7 Added support for 24-hour format + minor tweaks, per your feedback. Thanks for taking the time and please keep it coming :)
2011  •  April 23 Added drag-n-drop location sorting, per your feedback.
2011  •  April 1 WorldTimeBuddy Chrome webapp - http://bit.ly/dWKSAb
2011  •  March 26 Introducing meeting sharing! Select hours, open meeting (button up top), customize, share.How can it be better? Really need your feedback!
2011  •  March 19 New: (a) Pick any date to view its hourline (b) Full support for daylight savings on the hourline with ahead-of-time warnings. More soon...
2011  •  March 17 Working on a few new scheduling features while trying to keep things ridiculously simple... Stay tuned! Thnx for your support and feedback!
2011  •  February 6 New stuff: (a) Click & drag on the hourline to focus in (b) Tooltips on "hours from home" show GMT/DST (c) Added about & feedback pages.
2011  •  January 27 New stuff: (a) country/city search shows local time for each location (b) 20K more locations added. Thnx for ur support! More updates soon.
2011  •  January 18 Added the ticker -- no need to refresh the page to get updates times.
2011  •  January 16 Launched http://www.worldtimebuddy.com a couple of days back. Will update with more news as they come :)
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