World wall clock
 

Anyone know where I can buy wall clocks with several dials, so I can track the time and day at several different cities?

I currently work on a daily basis with Sydney (obviously) but also Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing San Jose, Raleigh, New York, London, Brussels (and several others).

I have some funky little laptop based tools, but I am soon moving to Perth (yet another timezone) and will be working from home permanently. Ideally I should like a wall clock that would show me the time/date in each location. I don't want to go that cheezy way of buying several different clocks and putting names under them if I can avoid it.

Surely there must be some "multi-dial" or "multi-zone" wall/digital clock out there? Can't find anything via cursory google search.


Mr Mephisto

eBay. :)

How about this one?
http://www.theclockdepot.com/images/...ii_612-371.gif
I thought it looked cool but it might be a bit on the expensive sife. I just put in time zone clock and found quite a few things.

IMHO you can go to IKEA and get some of those silver metal clocks, print up some labels, and your in business :)

I almost did it because constantly working with Singapore, NYC, LA timezones. I never did because I just got used to it.

Even if you found one with multiple clocks in a smaller subset, wouldn't they be hard to read? Cheesy or not, 3 or four clocks would be handier, or maybe a chart to let you know the time in certain places? Ex: LA+3 hours, London -6 hours (uh, that was a guess, please don't mock my math!)

I have three clocks in my office for DC, Rome and San Francisco. People often make fun of me for it but I refer to each of them at least twice a day so it is worthwhile for me. I would recommend the multiple clock approach.

This is what I've done in my office... I deal with Toronto, Singapore, Aukland, UK, mainland Europe, Mid East and South Africa...

The other thing is to go here: world clock

I use the multiple clock approach also, it's cheaper....and as a bonus, it just looks cool.

Yeah, OK. Multiple clocks it is.

I like the IKEA suggestion.


Thanks,

Mr Mephisto

Using multiple clocks, how would you know if the time is AM or PM?

Experience.

Working with my colleagues in these countries is part and parcel of my job. I have a good idea what time it is everywhere I need to, but having a few clocks besides my laptop utility would be handy.


Mr Mephisto

Um, I'd get digital clocks and use 24-hour time. That's easier.

Or you can just remember to mentally subtract or add X.Y hours to/from your current time zone... which is what I'd do first, then get the clocks.

I'm a big fan of these, as we've got some of them at work - the only downside is that they're very expensive.

The multiple clock approach sounds good, though.