Time Zone Check

good morning everyone, and welcome to your new time

as you probably know, last night at midnight, a few illogical countries made a time shift. And as always, this creates a challenge for the FF calendar's time zone feature. (actually we are pretty good at handling this by now)

nevertheless, please report any time zone errors that you may find on the calendar and we will investigate promptly. thanks for your help

LOL. Bad mouthing the ol us of a are we? grin. I have to admit i wish we'd just ditch the whole daylight thing and stick to one all year. States such as Arizona do just fine without the change. And us Oregonian's are nearly always under cloud cover so seeing the sun is just a dream anyway!

; ) Thom

Damn time change is so confusing...

These guys might help to get a clearer picture :

www.timeanddate.com

www.worldmarkethours.com

FT

ughh

could someone please post the current times for each trading session? me confused ...

UPDATE:

could we just take this chart and convert from DST to ST and vice versa when we need to?

Just trade off the dailies and it doesn't matter!

Here's how to cure the OUCH.

Get or make some graph paper turned sideways (landscape style).

Leaving a left-side column open for pairs you trade, mark off 24 columns from left to right.

Beginning with midnight through 11:00 p.m., or even Military style of 00 to 23, fill in those 24 columns from left to right.

Put a button for open trading hours for BASE currency, i.e., EUR/USD, or JPY/USD, or so forth, in each open square, for its exchange hours of trade.

Then, at the bottom of your list, put your personal location time, again left to right. It will be (probably) different times than the upper list which you've already made.

Have patience. It's tedious work.

Finally, make yet another chart with personal location Daylight Savings Time.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK. DO IT FIRST. Exchange hours vary from nation to nation, and some are NOT as long as New York, or London, etc.

Tedious, yes. Helpful, yes. Gives serious insight into trading volume activity, and especially the times of light trading when you won't get clobbered by the mad rush to get your trade through, such as near the closing hour when the institutional folks drive things up or down, and have been known to set off a traffic jam.

After a session or so, with the chart(s), it will be ingrained, and the WHAT TIME IS IT? will evaporate. There it'll be, hopefully inside a non-reflective sheet protector because I can guarantee heavy use.

Good Luck,

Skinny_Mesquite

Hi everyone. I'm going to necro this thread. Personally I've used a number of different things to try and get the time zones. I found two things which I'd like to point out as the best tools for your PC/Windows.

SHARP WORLD CLOCK is by far the absolute best thing I've used. I purchased it recently and I'm not disappointed. I'll list the features soon, but let me get a bit into this. There are many tools available and today the bulk of them require you to be online at all times - basically they're web based. Some of them are free but there are still some features that they lack. So with that let me get into the program features I've seen. I'll also mention QLOCK as I was using it for some years, but I recently decided I wanted to pay for it so I could get the pro features and I had no reply from the company. The free version is OK for basic functions, but that's where I got SHARP WORLD CLOCK instead. So here's the features and what I like.

 

1. World clocks.
   1. This allows you to place clocks for various places around the world.
   2. The program automatically detects and adjusts for DST based on the location.
   3. Clocks can be fixed or floating and placed how you want.

2. Meeting time planner.
   1. This is the feature I use frequently. It allows you to check time differences based on your displayed clocks/zones.
   2. This uses a slider with increments of 30 minutes to get the basic idea of the times.
   3. Since most things happen at XX:00 or XX:30 this is adequate.

3. Time zone converter.
   1. If you need a time outside of the 30 minute increments, you can set a specific time and date which will convert between two locations.
   2. The two locations are selected from a drop down list populated from your displayed zones/clocks.

4. License management.
   1. Purchase allows for two installs with a single license.
   2. License can be deactivated and then installed on another PC at your convenience.
   3. Activation is done online.
   4. If there are issues just send an email.

5. Fast support.
   1. Replies I've gotten have all been within 48 hours.
   2. He listens and gives feedback.

The only issue I originally had is the price, but with the full function test period I had no regrets spending the USD$34.95 to get it. To be honest, if QLOCK would have given me a license (which I paid for) then I wouldn't have found this. I still recommend using QLOCK as an alternative since it's free, but the features will be limited. As I said, QLOCK doesn't seem to reply to emails, form submission on their site, or the fact that you pay for a license. Fortunately it's done through PayPal and I'll open a dispute to get back my money in another few days if I don't get a reply.

All in all, SHARP WORLD CLOCK is probably the best tool. I'll upload some screenshots later on - I have my local time (no DST), NYC (DST enabled), Sydney, London, my broker server time and my VPS host time. That makes it easy for me to see what's going on and make plans on upcoming events. I can easily slide the meeting planner slider to get the times for upcoming events or use the converter.

I spoke with the developer and he had other versions of the app, but it didn't seem to get half the publicity of other programs - which is sad. I'm kind of gunning for him now to see if he can renew development and also do an Android app (maybe iOS as well) since the features are really good. I think iOS already has something with similar features, but again - test it out for yourself and see. Would like some feedback as well to know if anyone else finds it as awesome as I do. Hopefully this helps out.