A Chrome and Firefox browser extension that lets you highlight any natural-language date/time text on a webpage, right-click → Timezone Translate, and instantly see the time converted to your local timezone.
- Natural language parsing — understands virtually any date/time format:
Feb 19th | 6:00 PM ET,9am-5pm PST,Thursday at noon,14:00 UTC, and more - Auto-detects timezone — recognizes abbreviations (
EST,ET,PST,PT,GMT,CET, etc.) and plain English names (Eastern,Pacific,Central) in the selected text - Range support — converts both endpoints of a time range (e.g.
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM) - Live dropdowns — change the source or target timezone and the result updates instantly
- Copy to clipboard — one click copies the converted time
- Shadow DOM isolation — the dialog doesn't interfere with host-page styles
- Chrome + Firefox — works as an MV3 extension in Chrome/Edge and via
about:debuggingin Firefox
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/timezone-translator/lepkpohecahdpiecemipligdiamjmjem
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/timezone-translator/
git clone git@github.com:silverbucket/timezone-translate.git
cd timezone-translate
npm install
npm run buildThen load the dist/ folder as an unpacked extension:
- Chrome/Edge:
chrome://extensions→ enable Developer mode → Load unpacked → selectdist/ - Firefox:
about:debugging→ This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on → selectdist/manifest.json
npm run watch- Select any text containing a date/time on any webpage
- Right-click → Timezone Translate
- The dialog shows the converted time
- From is pre-filled if a timezone was detected in the text
- To defaults to your system's local timezone
- Adjust either dropdown to update the result live
- Click Copy to Clipboard to copy the result
| Format | Examples |
|---|---|
| US abbreviations | EST, EDT, ET, CST, CDT, CT, MST, MDT, MT, PST, PDT, PT |
| US full names | Eastern, Eastern Time, Central Standard Time, Pacific Daylight Time |
| International | UTC, GMT, CET, CEST, BST, IST, JST, KST, AEST, NZST, … |
| Other regions | Alaska, Hawaii, Atlantic, Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, … |