Reader Request/Reader Response: Time/Weather Resources

Wow! Who would have expected such a huge outpouring of responses to last Wednesday's question about finding the time and weather. Most of the responses I got centered on finding the time. Far fewer focused on the weather. I can't possibly list all the responses we got, but here's a sampling. We'll have a new reader request section on Wednesday -- and this one's gonna be really, really tough. Thanks to everyone for their responses!

Weather Underground ( http://www.wunderground.com) provides local time and weather for what looks like every city in the US and major cities around the world. (I'm not too clear on their scope.) You can set Wunderground to provide both the local time of the area you're looking at and your current time, giving you a simple basis for comparison.

Atomica ( http://www.atomica.com) is a downloadable browser add-on which claims to work with any browser (it worked fine in Opera.) Alt-click a word and you'll get information about it. If you click on a city name you can get both local time and the weather and five- day forecast.

World Time Server ( http://www.worldtimeserver.com/) doesn't provide weather but does make real-time adjustments for daylight savings time.

Time And Date.com ( http://www.timeanddate.com/) was the most popular suggestion by far (about 20 people suggested it.) Unfortunately it provides only time and date -- no weather -- but it does adjust for daylight savings time and provides a quick reference of times around the world at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/.

Posted to Admin-Reader Response