local timezone doesn’t make sense

These days i’ve been feeling this. I have been working with Japan, so my brain gets used to calculate 2 hours difference, but these days we have been working with India, which is one and half hours behind of Bangkok time, we always have to say “Meeting at 17:00 JST(Japan Standard Time)” etc.

When I see news on news websit which says “TODAY”, i have to check which timezone the website based on, it could be “Yesterday” for me.

I missed 2 Google AD Manager’s web seminnar, because I was confused with the time zone. They invited me at Wednesday, 9 December 2009 4:00 pm, Australia Eastern Daylight Time (Sydney, GMT+11:00). It confused me, Thailand is +7, Japan is +9 so 4 hours ahead from here, so it was 12:00 here in Bangkok.

I made Geeky Techie Event Calendar on Google Calendar, but when I first input events on it, I just input on my time zone. I saw something happening in Singapore at 15:00, i put it as 15:00 on my calendar, but it must be 14:00 in Bangkok time zone, which is 15:00 in Singapore.

The world, the internet, many things around us are now borderless, and connected real time. What is the point of using local time? Why does mid night has to be 0:00 and dark? Why everybody in the world has to start working 9:00 am on their local time? 9:00 in Japan could be 9:00 am in Thailand, but it’s bit dark, so we can set our office hour 11:00 to 20:00.

Well…. at least, I want to have UNIX time or something, world standard time for Google calendar, so that I don’t have to care about the time zone.