Terms of Use

Last updated 25 July 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and Jerome Coloma for your use of WhatTime, a menubar timezone converter for macOS. By downloading or using the app, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use WhatTime.

What WhatTime is

WhatTime answers timezone questions from the menubar. You type or say something in ordinary language, it works out what you meant, and it shows the answer across the zones you have pinned. It runs entirely on your Mac using a timezone database bundled inside the app, and it makes no network requests.

That is all it is. It is not a calendar, a scheduling service, a booking system, or a source of official time. It sends nothing anywhere and stores nothing about you. See the Privacy Policy.

Your licence

Buying WhatTime buys you a licence to use it, not the software itself. The licence is personal, non-exclusive, and non-transferable, and it runs on the terms the Mac App Store sets, which is Apple's standard Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement except where these terms say otherwise. Under those rules you can install and use WhatTime on any Mac you own or control, and members of your Family Sharing group can use it if the listing has Family Sharing enabled.

You agree not to:

• copy, redistribute, rent, lease, lend, sell, or sublicense the app;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble it, or attempt to derive its source code, except where applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction;
• remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice in it;
• use it in any way that breaks the law where you are.

Everything else in the app, including its name, icon, and interface, remains ours. This licence gives you no rights to it beyond using the app as it is meant to be used.

No account and no data

WhatTime has no account, so there is nothing to create, secure, or close, and nothing for us to suspend. Your pinned zones and display settings live in the standard macOS preferences store on your Mac, and stop existing when you delete the app. We never receive them, cannot recover them, and cannot see anything you ask the app.

Accuracy of the answers

WhatTime uses the timezone rules in force on the date you asked about, including for dates in the future. Those rules are set by governments, and governments change them, sometimes at short notice. An updated database ships with app updates, but between updates a rule can change without the app knowing about it.

So WhatTime is a fast answer, not an authoritative one. Interpreting ordinary language is inexact, dictation mishears place names, a city name can be ambiguous, and daylight saving rules move. Check anything that matters before you rely on it. We are not liable for a meeting missed, a flight missed, a deadline missed, or any other loss arising from an answer the app gave you.

Buying, refunds, and updates

WhatTime is sold through the Mac App Store, and nowhere else. Apple handles the purchase, the receipt, and the price, and your purchase is also subject to Apple's own terms. We never see your payment details.

Refunds go through Apple for the same reason. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. We cannot issue a refund ourselves, whatever the circumstances. Tell us what went wrong anyway; if it is something we can fix, we would rather fix it.

Updates arrive through the App Store. We are not obliged to release any, and we may change what the app does, stop selling it, or withdraw it from sale. A copy you have already bought keeps working on the Macs it is installed on for as long as macOS supports it, but a withdrawn app cannot be reinstalled from your Purchased list forever, and we cannot supply it another way.

Support

Support is by email at whattimeapp@tallbottech.com.au, and we answer as best we can. There is no guaranteed response time and no service commitment. Apple has no obligation at all to support or maintain WhatTime, so please do not ask them to.

Disclaimers

To the extent permitted by law, WhatTime is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, and non-infringement. In particular, we do not warrant that the app will be free of defects, that it will run without interruption on every Mac, that it will interpret what you type or say correctly, or that its timezone data is current or accurate for any given date.

Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Jerome Coloma will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss, or for loss of data, profit, or opportunity, arising from your use of or inability to use WhatTime. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to resupplying the app or refunding what you paid for it.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any guarantee, right, or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or other consumer protection law that cannot be excluded. If you are a consumer under that law, those rights apply in addition to these terms and prevail over anything here that conflicts with them.

Apple

Apple is not a party to these terms, but it has a role worth stating plainly:

• These terms are between you and us. Apple is not responsible for WhatTime or its contents.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for WhatTime.
• If WhatTime fails to conform to any warranty that applies, you can notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price. Beyond that refund, Apple has no warranty obligation whatsoever, and any other claim, loss, liability, or expense arising from a failure to conform to a warranty is ours to deal with.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for handling any claim that WhatTime or your use of it infringes someone's intellectual property, and for any claim relating to product liability, consumer protection, or a failure to conform to a legal requirement.
• You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

Other third parties

Dictation uses the speech recognition built into macOS, which is governed by Apple's terms and privacy policy rather than ours. Where WhatTime links out, to Apple's store or anywhere else, those sites are not ours and we are not responsible for them.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the app changes. Updates are posted here with a new date at the top. Continuing to use WhatTime after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Australia, and the courts of Australia have jurisdiction over any dispute about them. If you are a consumer in another country, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections of the law where you live.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email whattimeapp@tallbottech.com.au. WhatTime is published by Jerome Coloma (sole trader).