Release notes
Last updated 25 July 2026
What changed in each version of WhatTime, newest first. Updates arrive through the Mac App Store; the app never checks for them itself.
1.0
The first release.
- Ask in ordinary language, typed or spoken. "what time is it in Hong Kong", "9am sydney time to london", and "next monday 2pm london" all work, with no syntax to learn.
- Answers appear in a popover from the menubar, over whatever you were doing. No Dock icon, no window to manage, and Escape puts it away.
- Dictation through the speech recognition built into macOS. WhatTime echoes back what it heard, so a misread place name is visible rather than mysterious.
- A 24 hour dial you can sweep. Drag a knob and every pinned zone re-reads as you move, with the daytime arc shaded and a day or night marker on each row.
- Pin the zones you care about and drag them into the order you think in. The order persists between launches.
- Your Mac's own timezone is used when a query leaves the destination off, and the row is marked so you can see the default was assumed rather than stated.
- Daylight saving handled from the rules in force on the date you asked about, including future dates.
- Works offline. The timezone database ships inside the app, so WhatTime makes no network requests at all: no account, no server, no analytics.
Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon and Intel.