I thought of uses for this application:
- good for procrastinators, like me, to remind how little time they have left to get the job done!
- for anyone attending school or university where projects/essays are due
- craft projects… you could enter your start time and when completed your end time to calculate how long it took you to make them.
- parents… who make things for their kids for christmas, etc.
- if you were going to build a house, garage, etc. scheduling when deliveries and contractors should be there. (I know a person who does this type of thing for a very large company and they write in their contracts timings and penalties if they are late delivering, etc.) When she is dealing with a very large project this is extremely important as timing is everything but some of this could be used for personal use in such endeavours as well.
- countdown for vacations and vacation planning.

I don’t have such plans right now to test this out but will when I start a new one to see how it works out.

At first, I was excited about using this, especially after reading someone’s review that said they could use this to help with college assignments. Heh, it doesn’t “remind” you of anything! It just calculates the difference between two dates! Or, give it a duration, like 30 days, and it will tell you what the date will be in 30 days. Heck, I can figure that out myself, thank you very much. Thirty days from today? That would be February 7. Oh, you want to know 60 days from today? That would be March 8 (leap year). Whoopee!

The only feature that I like slightly is the world clock because I do business globally. Still, this feature is marginal at best. Sure, you can pick locations and it will display the time at each location in a text box. A text box! And you have to open the program to see it! How about giving a nice interface at least!? Something that could display on your desktop!

I’ll definitely be uninstalling this one.

I would like to see an expanded configuration menu to bring up a country’s data. An example would be: start typing the country’s name with a program that has word completion and the program would start to list all of the time zones in a given country. After typing a few letters, in the case of many countries, word completion would allow one to stop before typing in the country’s full name. All time zones for the country need to be displayed with major cities associated with them.

A program such as “timestimator” should give a graphical choice of countries, continents, etc. that bring up the time data upon the click of a mouse. Times should indicate “standard” and “daylight savings” times. This program apparently assumes that you know this information. Daylight savings time is not universally implemented on the same date.

In amateur radio we have freeware programs much more sophisticated and with better interfaces. I have used “Timestimator” for several hours today while on the air. I have entered the time zones for several countries while I talked with them. A glaring poor feature in this program is having to switch back and forth between screens “Time Zones” and “World Clock”.

“Timestimator” has many more short-comings. One short-coming that I find inexcusable for a contemporary Time program is for a program to display the current time as it is taken from the system’s clock. The program should get its time information from one of the atomic clocks that we use to standardize all of our time functions. Data from an atomic clock should set the system clock. When working with propagation beacons, being off two seconds means you are unable to identify the beacon being heard. The program is not suitable for satellite communication work for reasons given above.

In summary, the opinion of a ham radio operator with 45-years of experience working with world times zones and radio communications, is that the program needs much more work. Amateur radio operators will not pay $20 for this program. Most of us will not pay any amount for a “time” program unless the program is an interface to a grand communications program. I am not going to un-install the program yet. I want to use it more to see just what its got under the hood. With work “Timestimator” could be useful.

Evercyber, I do consulting work for HF (high frequency) radio wave propagation nowcasting and forecasting. I and others that also work in this technical area could help you considerably with your program. In 30-minutes you could pick-up much of what it would take to make your program fly.

Would you like a FREE plate of dirt?

Sorry, but a nonexistant price tag doesn’t improve anything. If you don’t want people to say that they think that this is pointless, give them uses for it. It makes you 100% more credible.

I thought GAOTHD was going to offer only full functioning software with NO TIME LIMITS.

On the other hand I’m glad that GAOTD is offering some commercial software.

Again there are those people who can’t read…..’ Strictly personal usage’!
WE need more business oriented stuff like this’ according to 24# then tells us about the ….. weather.
Do not recollect a spokesman being elected to speak for us all!
I for one do not need more ‘business stuff’.

Thanks GAOTD but I will give this one a miss.