A World Clock on Your Dashboard: Time Zones Next to Your Tasks

If you work with people — or platforms, or AI data sources — in another part of the world, you end up asking the same small question all day: what time is it over there? A separate world-clock app or a browser search answers it, but it pulls you out of your work every time.

Baton Board's Clock widget puts the answer where you already look: on the same board as your tasks, your calendar, and your numbers. Your local time, plus any cities you care about, always visible. It's one of the free widgets, and like everything in Baton Board it runs local-first — no account, no server, works offline.

What the Clock widget does

• Digital, analog, or both. Choose the face you like: a crisp digital readout, a classic analog dial that follows your theme colors, or both together.
• A world clock in the same widget. Add extra time zones — each with its own label ("Berlin office", "NY client", "UTC") — and they line up next to your local time.
• Your format, not ours. Toggle 24-hour or AM/PM, show or hide seconds, show or hide the date. Dates and times are formatted for your language automatically.
• Any real time zone. Zones use the standard IANA time-zone database (like Europe/Berlin or America/New_York), so daylight-saving changes are handled correctly without you touching anything.

Why a clock belongs on a dashboard

A dashboard is where you decide what to do next. Time zones are part of that decision more often than we notice:

• Scheduling across regions. A glance tells you whether your 9 a.m. is their 5 p.m. — before you propose a meeting time in the wrong half of the day.
• Working with a distributed team or clients. Keep a labeled clock per person or office, and "is it too late to ping them?" stops being a mental calculation.
• Watching global events. Market opens, product launches, release windows — pin the zone that matters and the countdown happens in your head, correctly.
• Async work with AI agents. If your agents or scripts run on schedules in another zone (a server's UTC cron, for instance), a UTC clock on the board keeps the timeline honest.

Part of the board, not another app

The point isn't the clock — it's the placement. Because the clock is a widget, you can put it right next to the calendar it informs, size it small in a corner or large as a wall clock, rename it, recolor it, and let it ride along when you switch board profiles. A focus board might carry a single minimal digital clock; an operations board might line up four zones above the task list.

And because Baton Board is local-first, the clock — like the rest of your board — works with no connection and sends nothing anywhere. Time is computed on your device, from your device.

Set it up in under a minute

1. Add the widget. Open the add-widget menu and choose Clock.
2. Pick a face. Digital, analog, or both, in the widget's settings (⚙).
3. Add zones. Enter a time zone and give it a label. Repeat for every city you care about.
4. Tune the details. 24-hour or AM/PM, seconds on or off, date on or off. Done.

Frequently asked questions

Is the clock widget free?

Yes. The Clock is one of the seven free widgets, alongside tasks, notes, links, calendar, countdown, and the Pomodoro timer.

Can it show more than one time zone?

Yes. Add as many zones as you need, each with its own label, and they display together as a world clock next to your local time.

Does it handle daylight-saving time?

Yes. Zones use the standard IANA time-zone database, so DST shifts are applied automatically.

Can I choose between an analog and a digital clock?

Yes — digital, analog, or both at once. You can also toggle 24-hour format, seconds, and the date display.

Does the world clock work offline?

Yes. Time is computed on your device, so the clock works with no connection — like the rest of your local-first board.

Pricing

Free covers one customizable board with the seven free widgets — including the Clock — plus export/import, automatic backups, board-wide search, and eight languages. Pro (¥980/month or ¥9,800/year) unlocks unlimited boards, the analytics widgets (KPI, KPI tree, goal, habit, agenda, activity, PDCA), the AI assistant, end-to-end sync, and deep customization. A ¥14,800 lifetime license is available. Polar handles payments and worldwide taxes.

Try it

Open Baton Board, add a Clock widget, and put the time zones you juggle every day on the board where your work already lives.

Related reading: "The Complete Baton Board Widget Guide" and "How to Build Your First Baton Board."