Determining the time, easily, anywhere in the world with TimeAndDate.com
Do you ever have to coordinate times with someone in another timezone, perhaps half the world away? It can be confusing, even if you know the "GMT relative offset"--and especially if you don't. Don't you wish you could just say: it's 3pm here, what time is it in x?
Well you can, and for free. There's a great web site, timeanddate.com, (and likely many others) that helps with this very dilemma. With its Personal World Clock feature, you can pick favorite locations and easily determine the current time in those locations.
Better still, the site has a meeting planner feature to help you plan a meeting in the future that will be convenient to those you need to meet with.
Finally, if you already have a meeting set for a fixed date and time, (such as if you want to meet at noon US Eastern time) and want to show people what time that will be for them around the world. you can use the Fixed Time tool.
What's really cool about this is that even provides you a URL that you can share with others (or post on a web site) to help them find out what time your meeting will be, to them. Really very helpful.
For example, I run an online user group which has met at 12pm US Eastern time the past few weeks. One feature of the timeanddate site is that I can pick a time in a given city/timezone, and publish a URL that anyone in the world can use to view the time in their city:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=12&min=30&sec=0&p1=25
And even if the cities listed aren't one a reader would want to see, they can click on one and choose an option for "cities near this one" to find their location.
All cool stuff. Hope it's useful to others.
Someone pointed out to me that there's a free downloadable tool that helps
with this same world time/date problem. Check out
http://www.activeearth.com/