Add home town to World Clock’s City list

World Clock lets you keep track of the current date and time wherever you are. World Clock has an extensive, but not exhaustive list of cities. Handheld PC Magazine is published in Fairfield, Iowa — a small town of 10,000 in Southeast Iowa. It’s not surprising that Fairfield is not listed in World Clock’s City list.

Fortunately, it’s easy to add cities to World Clock. Open World Clock and tap on Edit Add City. You are presented with a list of cities and asked to “Select the city closest to the one you want to add.” The two largest cities in Iowa are Des Moines (the state capitol) and Cedar Rapids (a industrial center). Cedar Rapids is closer to Fairfield, so I started to type in “Cedar Rapids.” Typing in “C” took me to the first city in the list beginning with “C,” Cairo (Egypt). Typing in “e”, the second letter in Cedar Rapids, took me to the first city in the list beginning with “ce,” Cedar Rapids. (I noticed that I have to type the letters in relatively quickly, without more than one second between letters, or Windows CE thinks I’m looking for a new city. For example, if I wait more than one second after typing “C” and then type “e” I go to Edinburgh, Scotland, the first “E” city on the list.)

World Clock’s Add City screen.

I highlighted Cedar Rapids and pressed (ENTER) and the Add City screen was displayed.

The screen lets you add the name of the new city along with information about the country, time zone, latitude and longitude, country and city phone prefix, and the nearest major airport. Because I selected Cedar Rapids as the nearest city, World Clock automatically entered Cedar Rapids’ information for country, time zone, etc. I typed in the City Name (Fairfield, IA 52556), made changes in the Latitude (41E 39’ North), Longitude (91E 31’ West), City area code (515) and taped on (OK).

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