Any day you are not in the same place
Something to send when you cannot be there
Distance is mostly an accumulation of small absences — you were not at the dinner, you did not see the flat, you heard about the day instead of having it. Presents do not fix this and neither does a page, but a page is at least the right shape: it arrives instantly and it is specific to the two of you.
The long-distance template puts both cities on the page with live clocks, so the time difference stops being arithmetic and becomes something you can see. It also handles the thing that matters most, which is the countdown to whenever you are next in the same room.
What to write
Use these as they are, or as a running start. Every template also has a draft-it-for-me button if the words will not come.
Counting down to a visit
Forty-one days. I have started planning what we do on the first evening and it is embarrassingly domestic. See you soon.
When the time difference is the problem
You are asleep while I write this and awake while I sleep, and somehow we are still managing. Nine and a half hours is not as far as it sounds.
For a friend who moved away
The group is not the same and everyone has said so independently, which I thought you should know. Come back for a week. We will pretend nothing changed.
Works for: A partner abroad · A friend who moved · Family in another city
Questions people actually ask
Does it show the correct time in both cities?
Yes. You pick both cities and the page works out the offset itself, including daylight saving where it applies, and updates whenever the page is opened.
Will it work on a slow connection abroad?
It is built for that case first — photographs are compressed and served from a network with local presence, and the page is designed to be readable before every image has arrived.