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AnyTime - Display Multiple Timezones On Your Homescreen

by Bla1ze on 26 Feb 2010 10:10 AM
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AnyTime - Display Multiple Timezones On Your Homescreen

Ever find yourself stuck for trying to figure out time zones when working out meetings and such with others? Drives me nuts. I can totally admit that I have a hard time with time conversion and it became more evident to me as I have been watching the Olympics. Trying to figure out the schedule in Vancouver vs. Halifax meant me sitting there and Googling for a online time converter. I think it's a mental block I have or something, I never remember even at looking.

After getting frustrated with having to look up the timezones I decided to go looking for a BlackBerry app to help me. Kyle had mentioned AnyTime from MMMOO. AnyTime covers all of what I needed. I can set up multiple timezones and have them either in a list or even have them displayed on my BlackBerry homescreen. Icon update times can be adjusted and it also supports 12/24 hr formatting of time. Perfect solution for my situation and maybe others out there who may have the same issue. AnyTime is available now for all devices OS 4.5+ including the BlackBerry Storm series and will only set you back $3.99.

Filed Under: News & Rumors, BlackBerry Apps; Tags: MMMOOO, time, time zones
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8 Comments

Posted by conker Friday, Feb 26, 2010 809 days ago

This should have been a part of the OS from day 1. It always shocked and frustrated me that RIM did not implement this. Seriously, this is a business phone! Even the iBrick has this built in, sheesh....

 
 
Posted by devGOD Friday, Feb 26, 2010 809 days ago

thats a little pricey, for simple math. If you're displaying a different timezone time on your main page just figure out the GMT +/- and do the simple math without having to spend $4.

 
 
Posted by RoninKSB Friday, Feb 26, 2010 809 days ago

Isn't $3.99 the minimum price allowed for an application on Blackberry App World? Unless it is free?

 
 
Posted by NellieRose Friday, Feb 26, 2010 809 days ago

The "World Clock" is a feature I have missed since making the change from both by Pam Treo and Centro to the BB Curve.

Such a simple & handy tool, especially for a phone system that was geared to business users. I'll never understand why RIM hadn't included a similar feature as a native app.

 
 
Posted by amacieli Friday, Feb 26, 2010 809 days ago

...or you can just download the perfectly fine "Sunclock" for free. Can display 5 locations at the same time, plus it has a nice map of the world showing where it's daylight and where it's not. Looks up somewhere on the web for adjustments to daylight savings etc. Works pefectly on the 9700.

 
 
Posted by HavPlenty Friday, Feb 26, 2010 809 days ago

...THANKS!!

 
 
Posted by HavPlenty Friday, Feb 26, 2010 809 days ago

Sheesh...nice reference tool, but I can figure it out myself for free.

 
 
Posted by Bazza1 Saturday, Feb 27, 2010 808 days ago

- and here's me with crappy math skills...

However, if anything could be gracefully worked out in this quarter, its the shifting appointments in Calendar as you travel between timezones and reset the device to the 'right' one. Frankly, its an enormous pain in the butt, and if you make the mistake of not changing your preferred sync calendar too, things can get wacky. But then you end up having to shift things again once you move timezone again.

Hey, if I set an appointment for 10am, I expect it to stay there and not become a 9am, or noon or whenever appointment!

Partly resolved this during my last trip (Toronto to Vancouver - a 3 hr timezone leap) by simply leaving the device and sync Calendars alone and resetting the BB to Network time. Sure, it thought it was still in Eastern Time, but my appointments stayed put.

Still, hardly the more professional solution...