1995 – 1998
 The oldest backup still available - from April 1996. A full screen dump is available. |
The first version of the World Clock was developed during only two days and did not care about Daylight Saving Time on the release date, but that was fixed in January 1996. The first release was a list of current time with around 120 cities. Initially it was available in Norwegian only, the English version was implemented on November 19, 1995.
During the World Clock's first years, it was running on the author's Unix account at the University of Trondheim (later renamed NTNU).
The first external visitor visited at
In December 1995, it was listed in Yahoo which meant more traffic and many international visitors. Its popularity grew further during the next years.
The URL back then was http://www.stud.unit.no/USERBIN/steffent/verdensur.pl.
1998 – 2005
In May 1998, timeanddate.com was opened after one year of development, aimed to replace the old version of the World Clock and other services that were still on the university account. It featured more cities and new services such as The Personal World Clock and Meeting planner. Many more services and enhancements were added during these years, more details are listed on the Updates page.
The future
The World Clock will be much further enhanced in the coming years, much based on user requests. Please write a few words below and tell what you think of the World Clock and if you have any suggestions on how to improve it. Any feedback is welcome.