Mindera is a real global company, with offices in 9 countries and people working from multiple other locations.
When my team started organising our AI Open Hours we decided to communicate the time of that meeting in all the locations, to make it easier for everyone to figure out if it would work for them. That meant that our messages were always that much longer and noisier.
Today, as I was preparing another message I decided to find a tool that would allow me to share just a single time in my current timezone and have people easily figuring how it would translate to their location. After a couple of google searches I gave up on that path and decided I'd just use Github Copilot to create a simple tool that would give me what I wanted. And so Time in the Zone came to be.
It's a one page tool built with HTML, Javascript and CSS that shows the current time in Portugal as well as in other Mindera offices' locations and other remote timezones. Besides that it also allows us to see times for a specific time, date and even changing the reference location, all using query parameters.
The configurable parameters are:
• ?time=14:30 - Show specific time (uses today's date)
• ?time=2025-12-25T14:30 - Show specific date and time
• ?timezone=America/New_York - Change reference timezone
• ?office=India - Use office location as reference (Portugal, India, Brazil, etc.)
• ?time=14:30&office=Morocco - Combine time and office parameters
[Time in the Zone screenshot]
Given that this was a tool with a small and clear scope, and which won't have any further dependencies or with any associated risks it was completely vibe coded, using Github Copilot. I provided the ideas and the features definitions and then asked Copilot built it without me paying any attention to the generated code, only to the generated features and functionality, ensuring that it did what I wanted it to do. Or adjusting when it wasn't quite right. This is quite a big difference from when I'm using AI assistants...