Google, what time is it?

March 11, 2008 by Reah Guevarra
Filed under: Search

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 timezone I keep is not GMT+8 but the timezone of my employer who currently lives in Boise, Idaho. Since it’s hard for me to remember the hour difference between GMT+8 and GMT-7, I just ask Google 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. When I do this, 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.

Knowing the time using this search engine is very useful when you try to keep in touch with your friends, relatives, or even your 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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