TimezoneDB is an easy, cross-platform method of keeping track of others' timezones.
This project is inspired by PronounDB, and we'd like to recognize Cynthia for all her hard work on that project. This project wouldn't have happened if not for PronounDB giving me the idea, and we've found a lot of the code from it useful here (See the License section for legal info).
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Now more than ever, people across the world are connected by the internet in new and exciting ways. As amazing and cool as this is, it also brings to light one small problem: time differences. This becomes especially noticeable in instant message platforms like Discord or on social media. Many people already put their timezone in a bio or a status, in an effort to help other users determine their time, but it's usually not enough, because people don't always think to look in such places.
The goal of this project is to allow people to set their timezone in a standardized way. Other users of our tools will automatically see their timezone and their current time in a semantic location on their profile, as part of the platform UI The concept is similar to PronounDB but focused on timezone coordination rather than pronouns.
My primary goals for the project is to allow users to set a timezone and other users to see their timezone and current time via application extensions. There will be no secondary or tertiary goals.
Moved to the issues tab.
All the essential API logic for the project is in the api directory and
written in Kotlin. Ktor is used for HTTP handling.
All supported platform integrations are included in subdirectories of the
platforms directory.
The website code is inside the web directory and written using Typescript and
Vue.js.
Before you contribute, we ask that you have a working knowledge of HTTP services and the languages we are using to facilitate such communications in this project (Kotlin & Typescript). We also ask that you respect our users, employees and fellow contributors when contributing to our software.
This software is licenced under the MIT License, © 2022-CURRENT Synapse Technologies, LLC.
Parts of this software were borrowed from PronounDB and respect its BSD 3-Clause license.
You are free to reuse our work commercially, but we ask that if you find our software useful, please reach out to us so that we can showcase how our software is being used.