I’m just back from a business trip.  I had to be in 5 different timezones in the last 2 months.  The most annoying thing was to change timezones in each of my desktop and web applications.  For eg.

  • Google Calendar
  • Google Voice (Funny that these two are still not integrated)
  • Gizmo VoIP  
  • Desktop applications

    • System Date and Time

    • GroupWise

    • Thunderbird lightning

Why can’t they all read my primary timezone from my desktop and give my an option to set it accordingly. I wish HTML5 has an option for webservices to read your local time and set if required.