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night of the living bathroom

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bark
@bark

don't live in america? incredibly confused by the sheer number of timezones that place has? try ✨ usa clock ✨. sorta uses some population and timezone and sleep schedule data to estimate how many americans are awake [stolen idea].

are you american? use exciting new 🦘 australia and 🥝 new zealand options


two
@two

i know exactly when to post so that barely any Americans will be awake to see it (right now)


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i just changed it so that the default is whatever the media query suggests, which means it gets locked in on first visit. i'm not sure if that's the less confusing behaviour over always synchronising with the device until you toggle it, after which it's locked in, since i cbf adding ui to allow the user to set it back to sync with device

Do you have the data sources or whatever needed to make this work for Canada? I'd imagine the results would be similar to the US, but I don't think the population distribution across time zones is exactly the same.

probably? the important data is state/subregion populations and associated timezones. lazy says just pick the timezone for the place with with the largest population in the subregion and use that. sleep data isn't as important, but for purity, time use surveys or whatever for hour-by-hour "how many people are awake?" data would be good. currently part of the 12% so this might be a tomorrow job

I'd imagine you could get populations down at the CMA or regional district level to make sure they precisely line up with time zones, because there's a few cases of time zone boundaries being out of sync with provincial and territorial boundaries up here.

you probably could, but i haven't. since the number is never reaaaaally gonna be accurate, i'm happy enough personally with the regions being associated with a timezone that "most" people in that region are experiencing (plus makes the data the app ships to clients not be Huge)

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