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| Introduction | |
Download FoxClocks at addons.mozilla.org. FoxClocks is simple but powerful: if you like, you can just have your local time in your statusbar. Or you can keep an eye on the time around the world with multiple clocks. You can set each clock's colour individually, or have a clock change colour during certain hours: for example you can make your Tokyo clock turn green when it's a good time to Skype your friends in Japan. |
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Finding the right time zone is easy with the Zone Picker. You can browse time zones by country, region or city. And if you enable automatic updates, you'll always have the right time (you may want to check out FoxClocks News for current and historical happenings in the world of time zones). For corporate users, FoxClocks can look for updates from your LAN. If you don't like the format of the time in the statusbar, change it: choose from a set of useful standard formats, or create your own - custom formats are easy to create and very flexible. Also, if you have Google Earth installed, FoxClocks can take you to any location in its database. Don't know where Budapest is? Right-click on it and choose 'Google Earth...'. FoxClocks is available in English (British and US), Belarusian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. |
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What's new in FoxClocks 2:
FoxClocks 2 also features an improved interface and a host of minor improvements over previous versions. We've also addressed the statusbar overflow problems of Firefox/Thunderbird. |
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| Starting FoxClocks | |
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Start FoxClocks by selecting 'FoxClocks' from the Tools menu. Alternatively, double-click any statusbar/toolbar clock. You can also use Ctrl+Shift+Q to open FoxClocks, and Ctrl/Command+W to close it. |
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| Main FoxClocks Window | |
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| Zone Picker | |
| The Zone Picker tree allows you to browse virtually all the world's time zones by geographic region. (At the moment non-English versions of FoxClocks have a slightly less flexible Zone Picker - we hope to address this soon.) Expand a continent to browse countries or cities in that continent. The Zone Picker also shows each time zone's current offset from GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Double-click on a zone for more detailed information. | |
| Note: the Zone Picker contains time zones, rather than locations. The time zone 'Europe->Cities->Moscow', for example, is the appropriate time zone for the locations Moscow and St. Petersburg. You could also use the zone 'Europe->Countries->Russia->Moscow+00 - W Russia'. | |
| Watchlist | |
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The Watchlist shows your selected locations and their current local time. Double-click a location to open its Location Properties window. Use the space bar to show/hide a location's statusbar/toolbar clock. The order of the locations in the Watchlist determines the order of your clocks in the statusbar/toolbar. You can change the order using the 'Move Up' and 'Move Down' buttons, or you by sorting by location name or current local time. |
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| Add/Remove Buttons | |
| Click 'Add' to add zone(s) selected in the Zone Picker to your Watchlist. The name of the new location(s) are based on
the zone name(s): if you select the zone 'Asia->Cities->Shanghai', the location 'Shanghai' will be added to the
Watchlist. Click 'Remove' to remove the selected location(s) from your Watchlist. |
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| 'Add as...' Button | |
| Click 'Add as...' to add a custom location based on the zone selected in the Zone Picker. The Location Properties window will open, allowing you to customize the location's name, styling and latitude and longitude (this allows FoxClocks to open the location in Google Earth). For example, you could select the zone 'Americas->Countries->Canada->Eastern Time->Ontario', and specify the name 'Ottawa' (or 'Home'). The location 'Ottawa' will appear in the Watchlist, and its local time will be calculated according to Canada's Eastern Time Zone rules. | |
| Move Up/Down Buttons | |
| Use these buttons to customize the order of the Watchlist. The order of the watchlist determines the order of your clocks on the statusbar/toolbar. Alternatively, you can sort by location name or time by clicking on the appropriate column heading in the Watchlist. | |
| Importing/Exporting Settings | |
| You can import and export FoxClocks settings from the 'File' menu. This can be useful for configuring FoxClocks for multiple users, or for moving your settings from one computer to another. | |
| Location Properties Window | |
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| Open the Location Properties window by double-clicking on any location in your Watchlist. | |
| Location Tab | |
| Select this tab to edit the location's name, latitude and longitude. Latitude and longitude are optional. | |
| Display Tab | |
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Use the 'Display' tab to choose when to display the location's clock. For example, you could configure less frequently used clocks to appear only in the tooltip (i.e. when you mouseover a clock in the statusbar). Checkboxes allow you to style the clock (e.g. you could display your local time in bold). You can apply a custom colour to the clock, and set an alternate colour during certain hours (e.g. green from 9am to 5pm, local time). |
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| Time Zone Tab | |
Select this tab to view details about the location's time zone: the current time, date and GMT offset; Standard GMT offset and, if applicable, Daylight Saving GMT offset and the start and end times of Daylight Saving Time. |
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| Google Earth Button | |
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Click on the Google Earth button to open Google Earth (if it's installed) at the current location. The button is disabled if latitude/longitude information is not available. |
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| Options Window | |
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Time Format Options - mouse over for Position and Style Options |
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| Open the Options window from the Tools menu in the main FoxClocks window, or by right-clicking on any clocks in your statusbar/toolbar. | |
| Time Format Tab | |
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Use this tab to customize your clocks' formats. You can apply formats to clocks in the main FoxClocks window, clocks in the statusbar/toolbar or clocks in the statusbar/toolbar tooltip. |
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Standard Formats |
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Custom Format Alternatively, you can edit the format directly in the 'Format' box. It's worth investigating each drop-down menu to see what's available - custom formats are very powerful. |
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| Position and Style Tab | |
Use the 'Display in' radio buttons to display your clocks (or the FoxClocks icon) in the statusbar or in a toolbar. Note: the first time you choose to display your clocks in a toolbar, you must open the 'Customize Toolbar' palette by right-clicking on one of the toolbars (e.g. on the 'Refresh' button') and choosing 'Customize...'; then drag the FoxClocks icon from the palette onto any toolbar. Use the 'Display as' radio buttons to display either multiple clocks or the FoxClocks icon. The icon view can be helpful if you are short of desktop space; hover the mouse over the icon in the statusbar/toolbar to display clocks configured to show in the statusbar/toolbar tooltip. |
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| Time Zone Data Tab | |
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Displays information about the current FoxClocks time zone database, and allows you to configure automatic updates (weekly), or to check for updates manually with the 'Check now' button. Also displays current GMT/UTC, as reported by the Operating System; this is useful for diagnosing incorrectly configured system time settings. Note: automatic updates are disabled by default. |
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| Additional Features | |
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Statusbar/Toolbar Clock Tooltip |
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| Hover the mouse over any clock/the FoxClocks icon in the statusbar/toolbar to display clocks configured to show in the statusbar/toolbar tooltip (use the 'Display' tab of the Location Properties window to select whether a clock appears in this tooltip.) | |
| Example | |
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| Updating the FoxClocks database from a LAN | |
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FoxClocks checks for updates to the time zone database by making an Internet request. If you are behind an overzealous firewall, or are otherwise unable to reach the Internet, but would like FoxClocks to check locally for updates, you can modify the Firefox/Thunderbird parameter
FoxClocks will now check for updates (automatic and manual) at this URL, rather than making requests to the Internet. Note: this parameter can be moved between FoxClocks installations by exporting and then importing FoxClocks settings (see Importing/Exporting Settings). You can retrieve the current FoxClocks database file from
where (under Windows)
If you're have problems configuring FoxClocks for LAN updates, please contact us. |
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| Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Changelog | |
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.4.97: | |
FoxClocks 2.4.97 enables Zone Picker search, customizable flags and advanced options for most (but not all!) languages. We've also added a Chinese (Traditional) language pack. Other locale improvements include improved English and French Zone Pickers. FoxClocks now enables statusbar flag images for new clocks by default. Let us know what you think about FoxClocks here. You may want to check out FoxClocks News for current and historical happenings in the world of time zones. Hopefully it's a bit more interesting than it sounds. Details of changes for FoxClocks 2.4.97:
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.4.91: | |
FoxClocks 2.4.91 adds a time zone search feature, customizable flags, advanced options, and various interface and language pack improvements. We've also fixed a few bugs, and added Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese (Simplified) and Norwegian (Bokmål) language packs. Please note that some new features are currently only visible when using FoxClocks in English - we will release an update as soon as translations become available. Details of changes for FoxClocks 2.4.91:
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.3.14: | |
FoxClocks 2.3.14 adds support for SeaMonkey and Flock. We've also added a new time format option, fixed a few bugs, and added a Japanese language pack. Details of changes for FoxClocks 2.3.14:
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.2.23: | |
FoxClocks 2.2.23 adds drag-and-drop functionality to the main FoxClocks window. We've also added per-clock time formats and two new locales. Details of changes for FoxClocks 2.2.23:
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.1.93: | |
FoxClocks 2.1.93 is primarily a language pack update, with fixes to Italian and Korean locales, and many improvements to other locales. We've also added country flags to the FoxClocks tooltip. Details of changes for FoxClocks 2.1.93:
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.1.80: | |
FoxClocks 2.1.80 allows you to show a time zone's flag next to its statusbar/toolbar clock. (Access this option from the 'Display' tab of the 'Location Properties' window after double-clicking a location in the Watchlist. To quickly enable multiple flags, open the main Foxclocks window, and use F2 to toggle the flag for all selected locations in the Watchlist). Thanks to Mark James of famfamfam.com for the flags. Other changes include a visual indicator ('slider') when your time zone database is updated; a Czech language pack; a few new cities in the Zone Picker (English); and a much-improved Zone Picker (various non-English translations - thanks to all at babelzilla.org). There are also a few minor bug-fixes, workarounds and GUI enhancements. Also, time zone afficinados can now hover over the 'Time Zone' tab after double-clicking a Zone or Location in the main FoxClocks window to display extended data from the 'tz' database. We've also worked around Mozilla's persistent tooltip bug: if you're having problems with the FoxClocks tooltip staying around too long, uncheck 'Show clock in statusbar/toolbar tooltip' for each location in your Watchlist - the tooltip will be disabled. This version of FoxClocks also includes a time zone database update for those who have not enabled automatic time zone database updates. We encourage you to enable automatic updates to keep up-to-date with future changes. Details of changes for FoxClocks 2.1.80:
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.0.20: | |
FoxClocks 2.0.20 is a minor release to address an issue with time zone database auto-updates. This version of FoxClocks also includes a time zone database update to address changes to U.S., Canadian and Bermudan time zone rules as a result of the US Energy Policy Act of 2005. We encourage you to enable automatic time zone database updates to keep up-to-date with future changes. Details of changes for FoxClocks 2.0.20:
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.0.19: | |
FoxClocks 2.0.19 is a minor release fixing the 'day of year' custom format and addressing an issue sending mail in Thunderbird. It also addresses a potential conflict with other extensions. FoxClocks 2.0.19 also allows you use the space bar to show/hide a Watchlist location's statusbar/toolbar clock. Details of changes for FoxClocks 2.0.19:
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| Changelog for FoxClocks 2.0: | |
FoxClocks 2.0 is a major update. Here's what's new:
Note: automatic updates are disabled by default. Details of other changes for FoxClocks 2.0:
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| PGP Information | |
What is PGP? |
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| PGP is 'Pretty Good Privacy.' From the Wikipedia article, "Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a computer program which provides cryptographic privacy and authentication... PGP has been sufficiently influential that its operating protocols and data formats have been standardized for interoperability among different versions of PGP and related software. Eventually, the PGP design was adopted as an Internet standards-track specification known as OpenPGP. OpenPGP is now an open standard..." |
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| Why PGP? | |
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So PGP provides privacy and authentication: we use PGP to digitally sign FoxClocks
'xpi' install packages. Verifying the signature against the xpi file you've downloaded from the web guarantees
that the xpi is the original, unmodified version (there are certainly a number of unofficial versions around the
web, over which we have no control). |
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| FoxClocks Signatures | |
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To verify these signatures, you'll need to download the stemhaus.com PGP key from the PGP Global Directory.
FoxClocks Extra: Ashes 2006-7 signatures: |
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