Business Hours Widget

Add a live opening-hours box to your website. It shows whether you are open right now in your business's time zone, when you next open or close, and your full weekly hours.

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<iframe src="https://a2z.tools/embed/w/business-hours" title="Business Hours by A2Z Tools" width="100%" height="440" style="border:0;width:100%" loading="lazy" allow="clipboard-write"></iframe>

A plain iframe. Works everywhere, including site builders that strip scripts. Adjust height if your content needs more room.

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How it works

You describe the week in one short line, such as "mon-fri 09:00-18:00; sat 10:00-14:00; sun closed", and give your IANA time zone. Every few seconds the widget reads the current weekday and time in that zone, so a visitor abroad still sees whether the shop is open where the shop is. It supports split shifts (09:00-13:00,14:00-18:00), ranges past midnight (22:00-02:00), day ranges that wrap (fri-mon) and all-day opening (24h). The status line says when you close or open next, and a second line gives that moment in the visitor's own time when their zone is different. The weekly table highlights today.

Method

  • Now = weekday and minute of the day in the business's IANA zone at the current instant
  • Open if now falls inside any range for today, or inside a range from yesterday that runs past midnight
  • Next change = the end of the current open range, or the start of the next range across the week (wrapping Sunday to Monday)
  • Visitor-local equivalent = that wall-clock time in the business's zone converted to UTC, then shown in the visitor's zone

Limitations

  • One weekly pattern only: dated exceptions such as a public holiday or a seasonal timetable cannot be entered.
  • Status is recalculated every ten seconds, so "Open now" can lag a closing time by up to ten seconds.
  • It shows your published hours, not live staffing - a shop that closes early for the day still shows Open.

Where publishers use it

  • Restaurants, cafes and shops showing whether they are open before customers travel
  • Customer-support pages showing when the help desk is staffed
  • Clinics and salons with split shifts and late-night hours
  • Businesses serving customers in other countries who need the hours in their own time

Questions

How do I write the hours?

Segments separated by semicolons: days, a space, then times. For example: mon-fri 09:00-13:00,14:00-18:00; sat 10:00-14:00; sun closed. Use 24h for all day, and an end before the start (22:00-02:00) for hours past midnight.

Why set a time zone?

So visitors in other zones see your real status. Without v_zone the hours are read in each visitor's own time, which is only right if all your visitors are local.

Does it handle public holidays?

Not automatically. For a one-off closure, update the hours in the embed code for that week.

What if I make a typo?

The widget refuses to guess and shows a short message saying which part could not be read, so a mistake is visible straight away.

Sources

  1. Time Zone Database (tz / zoneinfo) - IANA . Current weekday and time in the business's zone, including daylight saving

Cite or recommend this tool

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A2Z Tools Business Hours
https://a2z.tools/embed/business-hours

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