Local time can be very important in these circumstances and probably several else. There are a lot of software programs and browser add-ons that display multiple time zones to the user. Firefox users for example can install the excellent computer alarm clock and timer Simple Timer which displays a clock in the Firefox status bar.

Localti.me is an online service. The major benefit of it is the fact that it can be used to quickly look up the local time, local data and local weather without installing and software or plugin. All it takes is to enter a country, state or region to get the requested information. The service will display suggestions as soon as the user begins typing in the name.

The results page will list the local time, local data and local weather along with other information about the selected location. These other information include maps (taken from Virtual Earth), Wikipedia information, the latest headlines, traveling information and pictures taken from Flickr and Panoramio.

Localti.me (via Make use of) is a nice to have service for quickly looking up the local time, date or weather of a location in the world.