When you try "Time in Montréal" you don't have the little picture.
http://www.jeremilhau.fr/google/time.png |
Montreal (without "é") works though... |
Here's the really cool part:
the query [time] will tell you the current time based on your ip. |
The Onebox seems to change for me depending on when I do it (It has even not worked in the past).
I prefer it with the clock.
![[put at-character here]](image/at.gif) RC
That's pretty neat. |
Days ago the time operator was down. Matt Cutts said on Seroundtable that it will be back, and we was right. |
This request is simpler : time montreal or time moscow |
Look the URL of the alarm clocks.
google.com/chart?chs=40x30&chc=localtime ... weird
I'm sure you somebody here is able to hack this thing and discover something interresting. |
I've already been trying but no luck so far... |
<< I'm sure you somebody here is able to hack this thing and discover something interresting. >>
Already tried that. "Google Chart Server" (http://www.google.com/chart) is used for quite a few things – e.g. Google Finance – but it always includes what appears to be a hashed signature in the request so that you can't just modify the URL. |
Maybe Google doesn't want third-party developers to use this as "clock API" to generate their own icons for their own applications. Then again do they really care about that kind of exotic side traffic? The Google Page Creator image URLs for instance allow third-party hacking... Google Book snippets graphics embedding also do... |
How come [time EST] or [time DST] or [time CET] doesn't work then? That would be more useful as often I'll see webcasts listing their start time as "3:00pm EST" or whatever. |
Thanks for the clickable Montreal link, James.
Maybe somebody can clarify the following:
> the query [time] will tell you the current time based on your ip. |
It seems that [time] does indeed return the current time based on your location, presumably based on IP address:
http://www.google.com/search?q=time
http://ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/google-time-sheffield.gif
However, some locations appear to return more than one time:
http://ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/google-time-nashua.gif |
Love the simple "time" Onebox and even "Time San Francisco", but disappointed that there still isn't time zone conversion :-(
Tony
It chose London for me even though I'm over 60 miles away from it, wonder which Cities Google uses? |
In Croatia geolocation doesn't seem to work any way. "time" returns just Wikipedia box, "time in Croatia" and "time in Zagreb" work fine. |
Because of maintenances of Adsense and Blogger, "time PDT" would be useful... |
Hmm, I found the old Onebox again.
New: http://www.google.com/search?q=time+in+new+york&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB224GB224
old:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB224GB224&q=time+in+new+york%2C+new+york&btnG=Search
Interestingly, it says "According to www.google.com". Is that really needed?
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