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Meridian — The Time Bar

Meridian is the slim time bar that runs across the top of the workspace. On the left it shows your own local time; to the right it shows a row of other time zones you care about — clients, teammates, or offices in other cities. It is also a shortcut: click any zone and Meridian helps you schedule something into your week at the right local time.

The Meridian time bar: the lit LOCAL chip with the date and clock on the left, then one entry per city — a sun or moon icon, the city code with its zone, the time there and its offset from you — and the gear and green save-status dot on the right.
Meridian — the time strip above the boards, with the default four cities. (Clock pinned for the shot.)

At a glance

The icon on each entry tells you what the sky is doing in that city right now: a sun for daytime, a low sun around sunrise or sunset, and a moon at night — drawn at its real phase, with the dark side shown as a ring so the whole disc reads even at a thin crescent — so you can tell at a glance who is likely awake.

Hover any entry for a detail card: the date there, sunrise and sunset (and how long until the next one), that city's business hours with an Open or Closed note, and a plain-English line on how it relates to your time.

It fits your window

Meridian lays itself out from the width it has. On a wide screen every entry sits on one line. On a laptop-width window each entry folds onto two lines — the city code and zone over the time, with the day badge and offset in a narrow column beside them — and the local chip shows its zone and the date over the clock, so the default four cities still fit without scrolling, whatever the hour reads. On a smaller laptop window each entry keeps its city code, offset and time and sets the zone code aside; the local chip keeps its zone and clock. Only a row you have made longer than the bar scrolls; a plain mouse wheel over it moves it sideways, and the faded edges show there is more.

The Meridian bar in its compact layout on a laptop-width window: the LOCAL chip shows the zone code over the clock, and each city entry stacks its code and zone over its time, with the day badge and offset in a column beside them, so all four default cities fit without scrolling.
On a laptop-width window Meridian folds each entry onto two lines — the same information, no scrolling.

On a narrow window the row folds into a ZONES · N control beside the local chip (the N is how many cities you have). Click it to open the list of your cities — each with its icon, code and zone, the time there, its offset from you and whether it is open or closed right now — and click any city to schedule in its time, exactly as you would from the bar. Manage zones in settings at the foot of the list opens the gear.

The narrow Meridian layout: the LOCAL chip, a "ZONES · 4" control and the gear, with the zones list open beneath showing each city as a row — its icon, code and zone, the time there, the offset from you and whether it is open or closed now.
On a narrow window the row folds into ZONES · N; open it to see every city and schedule from one.

When to use it

How to… schedule from the bar

Meridian turns "what time is it there?" into "put it on my calendar." Clicking opens a small Schedule popover, centered under the entry you clicked, that does the time-zone math for you and adds the item to your Schedule board. While it's open, the left navigation and the Meridian bar stay put and everything else goes black so the options stand out — click anywhere outside the popover, use its ×, or press Esc to close it.

Click…What happens
A city entrySchedule something in that city's local time — Meridian converts it to your time before saving.
The local chip (your time)Schedule something in your own time, with one-click actions: "Block now", "Follow-up +2h" and "Tomorrow 9 AM."
The Schedule popover under the LA entry: "Schedule in LA time", the LA time and an open/closed note, the title field with "Call Dana about the migration" typed, the Type, Duration, Day and Time boxes, a preview line converting the slot to your time, the Suggest a good slot button, Add to schedule, and the small "Enter adds · Esc closes" hint beneath it.
Schedule from a city: pick the slot in their time, read the preview in yours, then Enter or Add to schedule.

In the popover you give the item a title, then pick from four equal boxes: type, length, day and time. A preview line shows the result in your time. Press Enter in the title, or click Add to schedule, to save it; a message confirms what was scheduled and when, and the popover closes. While you are typing the title a small hint under the button reminds you that Enter adds and Esc closes. One press adds one item: holding the key or pressing it twice never schedules the same thing twice, and your account keeps it that way even if the request has to be sent again. It warns you on two separate counts: when the converted time lands outside your business hours, and when the time you picked is outside that city's. Both matter — a polite 9 AM in London is a 4 AM alarm in New York, and only the first check would catch it. For a city, Suggest a good slot finds times that sit inside both working days, using that city's own hours (see below) rather than assuming they match yours.

Meridian only schedules onto Monday–Friday. If a converted time rolls onto a Saturday or Sunday, it tells you instead of saving — so a late-night call in one zone never silently lands on a weekend in another. This applies to the quick actions too: on a Friday evening, "Tomorrow 9 AM" is dimmed rather than quietly moved to Monday.

Landing outside business hours is a warning, not a refusal — sometimes the 6 AM call is the point. Meridian schedules it and says so.

Settings (the gear)

Click the gear on the right to open the settings panel. While it's open the left navigation and the Meridian bar stay put and everything else goes black so you can focus on the controls; click outside it (or press Esc) to close. Your choices are saved on this device and remembered next time.

The Meridian settings panel: the date and sunrise/sunset line, the 24-Hour Time and Hourly Chime switches, the Business hours pair, Detect My Zone and Sync with System, the zone search box above the zone list, and the Client zones editor with a row per city — label, zone, move up/down, remove — and each city's own hours beneath.
The gear opens Meridian's settings: clock options, your business hours, your primary zone, and the client zones.

Clock options

There is no daylight-saving switch to set. Every zone on the bar is read with its real daylight-saving rules, and scheduling uses the offset that applies on the day you're booking — not today's — so a slot booked before a clock change still converts correctly.

Business hours

Set the open/close times that count as your working hours. The Schedule popover uses these to warn you when something would land outside them, and as your half of the Suggest a good slot search. Each city keeps its own hours separately — see below.

Primary time zone (your zone)

Each action confirms what it did in a message. The sunrise and sunset line under the date follows your zone's city (or your location, once detected); for a zone outside Meridian's city list it says the times are not known rather than guessing.

Client zones (the row)

Keyboard and screen readers

Tips & tricks

Troubleshooting