Simple World Time

Developed for Yahoo! Widget Engine, Simple World Time is a tiny gadget that can display time from six different locations from any part of the world, directly on your desktop.

This type of tool can come to the aid of frequent travelers, businessmen and people who have friends and family scattered all around the world.

Thanks to the WIDGET format, Simple World Time is extremely simple to install and configure. Inexperienced users should not encounter any problems from this point of view.

The interface of the app is based on a very small frame where you can check out the default places with the listed time zones. By accessing the 'Options' screen, you can modify these values when it comes to the zone names, Greenwich Mean Time offset and visibility status.

Simple World Time's layout is customizable in regard to the time format (12-hour or 24-hour mode) and background color, along with the text color, font and size. Last but not least, you can establish the window level (normal, on top or below all the other applications) and adjust the opacity level, aside from making Simple World Time ignore all mouse events and to prevent dragging.

The lightweight tool barely leaves its mark on the computer's resources, since it runs on a very low amount of CPU and system memory. It didn't cause the operating system to freeze, crash or pop up error dialogs. On the downside, the frame's size cannot be increased, which makes reading the text a difficult task. Unfortunately, the Simple World Time project has been discontinued - the tool has never been updated.