704 instructional ppt timeand date
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Beth KovacicLIS 704
All things clock and calendar related
TimeandDate.com
Time and Date AS is a privately held Norwegian company. They operate three websites in Norwegian, German and English. They also have developed the World Clock app for IOS and Android.
Timeanddate.com includes: World ClockTime Zones Calendar Weather Sun & Moon
Timers Calculators This website and the companion apps are particularly useful for
anyone who conducts business or travels internationally. Many of the site’s features are of general interest to just about anyone - including the weather and timers. It can be freely accessed by anyone with internet access at timeanddate.com
Time and Date AS
The World Clock gives you the current time in many cities across the world. You have several options: The World Clock The Extended World
Clock that includes more cities
A search feature to quickly locate the city you need
And a personal World Clock where you can select which cities to display.
World Clock
The Time Zone section includes:• Time zone maps• A Meeting Planner to
help in scheduling conference calls or virtual meetings across time zones
• Time zone abbreviations• Daylight Savings Time
information
Time Zones
Enter the cities where each member is located and enter the meeting date.
International meeting planner exampleA friend owns a business. His salesperson is in Brussels and their main client is in Aukland. He is based in Chicago. They can use the meeting planner to find a good time to hold an online meeting.
The chart will dsiplay the time in each location. Color coding indicates normal working hours, weekend hours and normal sleeping hours.
The Calendar section gives the user lots of options to customize and print calendars of all types, as well as information about holidays and Leap Year.
Calendar
The Weather section has local and global weather information.
Most notable is the past weather feature which shows a chart of the prior 7 days temperatures and winds as well as other historical weather data.
Weather and Sun/Moon cycles
• Count down to any date• Use a kitchen timer or stopwatch
or download the app for your phone
• calculate the number of days within or until a given set of dates
• do time zone calculations• do astronomical calculations
Timers andCalculators
To the right is an example of a date to date calculation.
Simply enter the beginning and end dates and click the “calculate duration” button.
The result is returned in days and in year, month, day format. Alternative time units are also shown to the right.
Example of a calculation - date to date
You can also calculate the business date duration, which does not count holidays or weekend days in the total.
The days omitted are listed at the right.
Example of a calculationBusiness date to date
I hope that you have found Timeanddate.com easy to use.
If you have further questions, please contact me at [email protected]
Thorsen, Steffan. Timeanddate.com. Retrieved March 17, 2016 from timeanddate.com