Google Improves Its Clock

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Google has improved the way it tells time. Yes, a minor detail, but they did a neat job improving here. As you can see above, searching google for “time [name of place]” will give you a nice little clock, along with a full description of the time, time zone, and place in question. Ionut Alex has a screenshot of the old implementation, which looked more like an advertisement than a smart answer.
It’s cool that the clock pictured actually shows the current time, as opposed to just being a picture of a clock. The image address is http://www.google.com/chart?chs=40×30&chc=localtime&cht=cf&chd=s:KY&sig=1bhjpAjoJ38HTORPS6ob5rJe240 and is pictured here:

Would anyone like to try figuring out the URL and whether it can be used in some sort of hack?
Ask.com and Yahoo, but not Windows Live, also show you the time when you ask. Yahoo’s approach is similar to Google’s old one, […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg