About TimeNow

TimeNow is a world clock. You can tap your way to any country or time zone. Get the exact local time. It gets updated every second. You also get the UTC offset. Whether daylight saving time is in effect right now.

The important thing is where the numbers come from. Every time zone offset, every daylight saving change, every spring-forward and fall-back comes from the IANA time zone database. This is the database that operating systems, phones and servers use around the world. PHP has a copy of it. TimeNow uses it on the server for each page. We do not have a table of offsets and we never make a guess. When a country changes its clocks or stops using daylight saving the fix happens with the update rather than waiting for us to notice it.

The time is first rendered on the server. The correct time is already on the page before any JavaScript runs. After the page loads the clock keeps ticking in your browser. It also corrects for any difference between your device's clock and the server's clock. That is why the seconds stay accurate even if your laptop is a little fast or slow.

There is a page for every country and every time zone in the database. You can also search for each one. Quickly convert the time against a few major cities, on every zone page. TimeNow does not require any accounts. There is no clutter. Just the time.

TimeNow is maintained by Devikons. If you find a time, a missing city, or something that just looks off, you can use the contact page to reach us.