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Hey! There was no intention of "stealing." I did not know who else was involved in the development of timezones.digital, and I did send a message to the designer "Mykhailov" about using it as inspiration. The only reasons for redevelopment were:

- The timezone search in the original app was laggy.

- It did not allow searching timezones by offset, e.g., 'GMT+5,' 'gmt-5,' etc.

- It did not allow timezone search by name, e.g., PST, EST, GST, etc.

- It requested location permission that seemed unnecessary.

- It was closed source.

I had been using your product for quite some time and only developed time.fyi to scratch my own itch. I will be open-sourcing it soon and planning on extending it beyond what it is today.

Having said that, thank you for your work on timezones.digital!




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