> In these situations you currently have to know two things: what time it is over there, and what the cultural norms for work and mealtimes are. If time were in

> In these situations you currently have to know two things: what time it is over there, and what the cultural norms for work and mealtimes are. If time were internationally uniform, you'd only need the latter. For some time now I've included my time zone in the mouseprint of my email signature block; it'd be easy enough to include one's usual hours of availability as well.