Browsers should display
Here is a suggestion for browser makers: browsers should display a timestamp marked up with the HTML5 <time> element according to the timezone of the user and locale settings of the computer.
This is the text from a post that triggered me :
NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6th.
EDT and AM/PM suffixes are not things I commonly use so I need to interpret their meaning and calculate the time of launch in my local time. This turns out to be 5:27 Saturday, Sept 7th for me in The Netherlands.
Wouldn't it be great when the author marked up the time of launch with the <time> element like this:
<p>NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at <time>11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6th</time>.</p>
the browser rendered the text as:
NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 5:27 Saturday, Sept 7th.
The timestamp is adjusted to my local time, and formatted it as I'm used to, making it easier for me to understand.