Know what time it is for the person you're chatting with — instantly.
This Chrome extension helps you keep track of your friends’, colleagues’, or clients’ local time right inside WhatsApp Web. No more awkward "Are you awake?" messages or guessing someone’s timezone.
🌎 Set a timezone for each chat manually Just click “🕒 Set Timezone” once, and it will remember it for next time.
🕐 Shows exact local time next to contact name
E.g., 🌞 03:20 PM (Sydney, GMT+10)
🌞🌙 Sun/Moon emoji based on time of day See at a glance if it’s day or night in their location.
🔍 Searchable timezone selector Type “Tokyo”, “New York”, or “London” to quickly find the right timezone.
💾 Remembers timezones per contact Set it once per person — it sticks.
🔁 Refreshes automatically every minute Time always stays accurate.
⚡ No account or signup needed Everything runs locally in your browser.
- Install the extension (from Chrome Extensions, enable Developer mode and
Load unpacked
) - Go to WhatsApp Web (Refresh after adding this extension)
- Open a chat. You’ll see a
🕒 Set Timezone
label near the top (next to the contact name). - Click on the label to open the timezone picker.
- Type to search — for example:
Sydney
,London
,Karachi
,New York
- Select the appropriate timezone from the dropdown.
- That’s it! You’ll now see the local time for that contact whenever you chat with them.
- It watches for chat changes and automatically shows the saved timezone for each contact.
- Timezones are stored locally using Chrome’s storage — no data leaves your browser.
- It updates the time every minute, so it always stays in sync.
- Based on the hour, it shows a 🌞 if it’s daytime (6am–9pm) or 🌙 if it’s night.
- Currently the benchmark Timezone is GMT
If you're a dev and want to improve or contribute:
-
Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Ansarissab/whatsapp-web-conversation-timezone-helper
-
Go to
chrome://extensions/
- Enable "Developer Mode"
- Click “Load unpacked”
- Select the project folder
-
Edit
content.js
to add features or improve styling
- Support Slack, Discord, Gmail, etc.
- Time difference (e.g.
+3h from you
)