Meeting Time Finder Across Zones

WHAT IT DOES

Meeting Time Finder Across Zones helps you quickly find overlapping working hours across multiple timezones, making it easy to schedule meetings with colleagues, clients, or team members around the world. The extension displays a timezone comparison grid showing the current time in each configured timezone, along with a color-coded status indicator (working, near working hours, or off-hours). A visual timeline shows the 24-hour working hours pattern for each timezone, making it easy to spot overlaps at a glance. The tool automatically detects which timezones are currently in working hours and shows a summary of overlapping zones. You can add any IANA timezone (e.g., America/Chicago, Europe/Paris, Asia/Tokyo) and customize working hours to match your team's schedule. All timezones are saved locally for quick access.

WHERE IT RUNS

The extension works on every website as a floating panel, including complex single-page applications, traditional websites, and any page where you need to check timezone availability. It runs locally in your browser, calculating timezone offsets and displaying times without sending any data to external servers. The extension supports all major browsers and adapts to both desktop and mobile viewports seamlessly.

HOW TO USE

After installation, click the "🌐 Time Finder" badge in the bottom-right corner of the page to open the Meeting Time Finder panel. The panel displays a grid showing each configured timezone with its current time, UTC offset, and status (Working, Near, or Off). The "Overlap Summary" at the top shows which timezones are currently in working hours. Use the "Add Timezone" input to add custom timezones (e.g., "America/Chicago", "Europe/London", "Asia/Tokyo")—the extension will validate the timezone and add it to your list. Click "Reset" to restore the default timezones. To customize the experience, open the extension panel and set your working hours (start and end times in 24-hour format). Choose your preferred time format (12-hour or 24-hour). Toggle "Show seconds in clock" to display seconds in the time display.

THE ACTUAL MECHANISM — INTL.DATETIMEFORMAT WITH TIMEZONE OFFSET CALCULATION

The extension uses the browser's Intl.DateTimeFormat API to get the current time in any IANA timezone. For each timezone, it creates a formatter with the user's time format preference and the specified timezone. It then uses `formatToParts()` to extract the hour, minute, second, and AM/PM components. The UTC offset is calculated by comparing the time in the target timezone with the time in UTC using the difference in timestamps. For working hours, the extension converts the user's configured workStart and workEnd (in 24-hour format) to minutes since midnight and checks if the current time (in the target timezone) falls within that range. The status is color-coded: green for working, orange for near working hours (within 30 minutes), and red for off-hours. The timeline is rendered as a 24-segment bar where each segment represents one hour, colored based on whether that hour is within working hours for that timezone. The overlap summary aggregates all timezones and counts how many are currently in working hours. All calculations are performed client-side with no external API calls, using the browser's built-in timezone database.

THE PANEL

The settings panel is a lightweight, draggable overlay that appears in the center of your screen. You can reposition it by clicking and dragging the title bar; release it near the screen edge and it will snap into place automatically. To collapse the panel into a compact title bar, click the minimize button, expanding it again with the same control. The panel is fully responsive, adapting to different screen resolutions with a minimum width of 300px and a maximum of 480px. Press the Escape key at any time to dismiss the panel without applying changes. All controls—the enable/disable toggle, open time finder button, close button, working hours selectors, time format selector, seconds toggle, and per-site controls—are accessible within a clean, high-contrast interface that respects your system's color scheme.

PLEASE NOTE

This extension requires the free BotGentz companion extension to be installed and active, which provides the underlying DOM access and storage engine. The timezone detection uses the IANA timezone database available in the browser's Intl API—some rare or deprecated timezones may not be supported. The extension does not automatically adjust for daylight saving time beyond the browser's built-in timezone handling. Timezones are stored locally and are not synced across devices. No personal data, browsing history, or location information is ever collected, stored, or transmitted. All settings are saved using the browser's storage API and remain solely on your device. The extension does not inject ads, trackers, or analytics of any kind.