A tool that has been most useful for me when I am scheduling meetings cross-timezone:
http://timesched.pocoo.org/
IMHO when scheduling, you need to actually understand local time for all your attendees, so you can factor in things like when they are awake/asleep, when they might be driving to work, picking up their kids, etc.
But when simply reading/grokking times — i.e. in internal documents or web pages shared across timezones — I usually just want to see the timestamp expressed as my local time.
(Browser extension idea: automatically convert all dates/times to my local time, and be able to set rules for common timezone conversions for certain URLs/domains.)
IMHO when scheduling, you need to actually understand local time for all your attendees, so you can factor in things like when they are awake/asleep, when they might be driving to work, picking up their kids, etc.
But when simply reading/grokking times — i.e. in internal documents or web pages shared across timezones — I usually just want to see the timestamp expressed as my local time.
(Browser extension idea: automatically convert all dates/times to my local time, and be able to set rules for common timezone conversions for certain URLs/domains.)