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Updates to timeanddate.com for years 2000–2008

Published 31-Dec-2008

This page describes some of the more important pages we added to timeanddate.com between 2000 and 2008. Also see the Updates history for the 1990s.

Important updates in 2008

10 Years – Anniversary – timeanddate.com turns 10 years old (24 May 2008)
Seasons Calculator – New service – Calculate times for solstices and equinoxes (18 Mar 2008)
Holidays section – New section – Holiday background information (18 Mar 2008)

Detailed weather – New service – Weather available as a separate service (30 May 2007)
Time zone overviews New service – Overview, which countries observed DST (9 Mar 2007)
Time Zone News – Pages for important changes in time zones and daylight saving time (1 Mar 2007)
Weather available – Weather available on World Clock's city pages (27 Feb 2007)
User registration New service – It is now possible to register on the site, for more advanced customization. (26 Jan 2007)

Day and Night World Map New service – See current position of the Sun (3 Oct 2006)
Moon Calculator New service – Find local time for moonrise, moonset, transit and more (2 Oct 2006)
Moon Phase Calculator New service – Find local time for the moon phases (15 Sep 2006)
One billion pages served – Page #1,000,000,000 was served on 30 Aug 2006.
Distance calculator New service – How far is it between two locations? (30 Jun 2006)
Free web site clock New service – A clock that you can use on your web site or blog (6 Jun 2006)

Leap seconds New page – What are leap seconds and when are they used (30 Dec 2005)
The World Clock is 10 years old (7 Nov 2005)
Time zone changes New page – Historic time zone changes added (27 Oct 2005)
Date calculator update – The date calculators have been improved (10 May 2005)
Five hundred million pages served – Page #500,000,000 was served on 13 Mar 2005.

Time Zone Converter New page (1 Sep 2004)
Calendar upgrade – now support week numbers and better holiday support (26 Jun 2004)

Server upgrade – new, faster hardware for the site (25 Nov 2003)
Time zone abbreviations New section – more information about time zone abbreviations added (27 Jul 2003)
Calendar design changes – including new "Medium" format (22 Mar 2003)
Some minor design changes (30 Jan 2003)
Day numbers were added as an option in the customized calendar (29 Jan 2003)

Design changes, and search engine added. (21 Aug 2002)
One hundred million pages served – Page #100,000,000 was served on 11 Jul 2002.
There have been technical changes to the site, which should result in faster access for most users with low bandwidth/modem connections. (Jun 2002)
Cities close to... New page – shows others cities close to cities in the World Clock. (30 May 2002)
International dialing codes – improved to include area codes. (28 Mar 2002)
Repeating calendars – Find which years use the same calendar. New Page (4 Mar 2002)

New Year Countdowns – Simultaneous countdown for every time zone on earth. New Pages (26 Dec 2001)
DST transitions in year 2002 – a list of when DST starts and ends around the world New pages (26 Nov 2001)
Server upgrade – new hardware and software for the site (21 Nov 2001)
Fifty million pages served – Page #50,000,000 was served on 21 Aug 2001.
World Clock – Some cosmetic changes to most of the World Clock services. (7 Apr 2001)
Sunrise/sunset times – New pages – Service to find sunrise and sunset times. (3 Apr 2001)
Dialing codes – New page – Service to find how to dial internationally. (3 Apr 2001)
New Year Countdown – updated to count to year 2002. (1 Jan 2001)
Happy new Millennium/Year 2001! (1 Jan 2001)

DST transitions in year 2001 – a list of when DST starts and ends around the world New pages (3 Dec 2000)
Dedicated server – www.timeanddate.com is now running on a dedicated server. (28 Sep 2000)
Shop – Calendars – New page – calendars that you can buy through Amazon.com (28 Aug 2000)
Redesign – Some changes to the design were made (27 Aug 2000)
Time zone differences – New page – you can find the difference in hours between any cities using this tool combined with city lookup (9 Aug 2000)
Personal Applet World Clock linkable – you can now add links to your personal World Clock – applet version (9 Aug 2000)
Advanced Meeting Planner – New page – Another version of the Meeting Planner which allows up to 6 cities. (23 Apr 2000)
Why Leap Years? – New Page Page explaining leap years. (20 Feb 2000)
Ten million pages served – Page #10,000,000 was served on 9 Feb 2000.
Happy New Year 2000! (1 Jan 2000)

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