About
A world clock for the human part of time zones
Hours Apart is an independent tool created and maintained by Bytefish Studios for people who work, travel, study or keep in touch across cities. It answers the question behind a conversion: not only what time it is there, but whether it is a sensible hour to call.
What the tool is for
A normal time converter gives an offset for one moment. That is useful, but it misses the practical questions: Is it daylight? Is this inside a colleague's working day? Will a weekly meeting shift when one city changes its clocks? Hours Apart brings those questions into one view with a world clock, a meeting planner and city-pair explanations.
Built around real scheduling decisions
The site focuses on cities people commonly compare rather than trying to list every possible time-zone label. City pages show the current local time, daylight-saving transitions and an approximate daylight pattern. Pair pages show every gap that occurs across the year and the dates it changes. The meeting planner lets you model working hours before sending an invite.
How it is maintained
Hours Apart is actively maintained as a small web product. The city list, explanations, daylight-saving wording and navigation are reviewed as the tool develops. Changes that affect the service are recorded in the changelog. The underlying methods and their limits are explained in how Hours Apart works.
Feedback makes the tool better
If a city is missing, a transition looks wrong or a planning flow is awkward, send a specific example through the contact page. A share link, the cities involved and the date being checked are usually enough to reproduce a problem.