Change Timezone (Time Shift)

Change Timezone (Time Shift)

Easily change your timezone to a desired value and protect your privacy.

What is Change Timezone (Time Shift)?
Change Timezone (Time Shift) is a user-friendly Chrome extension. It facilitates users to quickly tweak their current timezone to any of their preferred ones, safeguarding their online privacy. The extension takes into account daylight saving time and functions by modification of the name and value fields of the selected timezone. For any issues, users can file a bug report through the addon’s official website.
Merlin
Stats
By: Yubi
Users: 20,000+
Rating: 3.25 (36)
Version: 0.1.6 (Last updated: 2022-11-10)
Creation date: 2020-05-06
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • scripting
  • contextMenus
  • webNavigation
Host permissions:
  • *://*/*
Size: 47.15K
URLs: Website
Stats date:

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Change Timezone (Time Shift)
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Summary

Change Timezone (Time Shift) is an extension that let you easily and quickly change your timezone to the desired value and protect your privacy.

Simply open the addon options page and select a desired timezone from the drop-down list. Once a timezone is selected, adjust the name and value fields if needed. Then reload all tabs for changes to take effect. Please note that this addon takes into account the daylight saving time. If you want to turn off the addon, simply click on the toolbar icon once (the icon color will turn to light grey). By default, the addon is active (the toolbar icon has dark grey color).

To report bugs, please fill out the bug report form on the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/change-timezone.html).

User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works well
  • Bypasses region restrictions
  • Simple to use
Cons
  • Breaks date inputs on websites
  • Causes double-timezone issues
  • Does not work for JS developers
Most mentioned
  • Breaks date inputs on websites
  • Does not work properly
  • Causes double-timezone issues
  • Does not change timezone as expected
Recent reviews
by Luca Lischetti Luca Lischetti, 2024-04-17

BE CAREFUL WITH USING THIS. I list my 250 day duolingo streak because of this extension, which shifted my time forward. Even after I uninstalled, the time shift was still there. Give instructions to uninstall this piece of garbage
by Justin Justin, 2024-03-18

Works well
by Bowen Zhao Bowen Zhao, 2023-09-27
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Safety
Risk impact

Change Timezone (Time Shift) may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Change Timezone (Time Shift) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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