Google, what time is it?

There’s something wrong with my computer for these past weeks, and I am lazy to figure out what causes it. What I have observed is that when it’s already on, the date is July 2003. I am more patient to just fix the date and time rather than fix the cause of the problem. So what I always do when this error happens is that I just click the time in my taskbar, and set the right data.

The time I keep though is not my time (in GMT+8) but the time of my employer who currently lives in Boise, Idaho. Since it’s hard for me to remember the time difference between GMT+8 and GMT-7, I just ask Google the time in Boise. I just type time in Boise in the Google search box and in an instant I know the right time.

Also, I somehow like to ask Google what time is it in my location even though I can check it in my wall clock. But this time, I only type time in the search box, and there it goes the time on top of the search results.

I also have used it last January to check the time in Eastern Standard Time (EST), because I was preparing for a war in an online game. Our leader wanted us to attack our enemies at exactly 12:10 A.M. EST. So I asked Google, but the keywords time in EST didn’t work though. So I typed time in New York since I knew it is in EST.

Try these keywords:

Knowing the time using Google is very useful when you try to keep in touch with your friends, relatives, or even your clients who are in different time zones. Just type time in and add their location, either a city or a country. I noticed though the feature doesn’t work in some country specific sites like mine which is Google.com.ph, so I use Google.com instead.

And about my computer, I think I will reboot it one of these days.

Posted by Reah Guevarra in Google Search on March 11th, 2008 You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.