Google, what time is it?

March 11, 2008 by Reah Guevarra
Filed under: Search

There’s a date glitch on my computer for these past weeks, and I am lazy to figure out what causes it. What I’ve noticed though is that when it’s already on, the date is July 2003. I am more patient to just fix the date and time manually rather than find out the cause of this glitch and fix it. Click the time in my taskbar, and set the right date sounds more convenient to me.

I set the timezone though with the timezone my employer, who lives in Idaho, has. Since it’s hard for me to remember the hour difference between GMT+8 (my timezone) and GMT-7 (his timezone), I just ask Google what’s the time in Boise. I just type time in Boise in the search box and in an instant I know what it is.

Also, I somehow like to ask the search engine what time is it in my location even though I can check my wall clock behind me. When I do this, I only type time in the search box along with the name of nearest city, and there it goes, the time displays 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 game leader wanted us to attack our enemies at exactly 12:10 A.M. EST. So I googled the time, but the keywords ‘time in EST’ didn’t work though. I figured that if I type time in New York since I would knew what EST was.

Knowing the time by using this search engine is very useful when we try to keep in touch with our friends, relatives, or even our clients who are in different timezones. 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.

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