The ILC and time zones

A surprisingly big problem in a global collaboration is to find a meeting time that suits people in Asia, America and Europe equally badly well.
Usually this means getting up early at the west coast of the US, and being up late in Japan. The Europeans sacrifice their tea time or run into conflict with supper.

The fact that Europe and the US cannot agree on a common start and end of daylight savings time, adds an additional dimension of complication, because - when do you change the time of the meeting: When daylight savings time ends in Europe, or in the US, or do you change it at all? Japan, after all, does not change the clocks.
This whole conundrum leads to much confusion and conflicts. Even more confusing is the fact that some of my venerable colleagues do not seem to understand the abbreviations of time zones. Here is something that helps:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones

So here's a suggestion: Since the ILC will be built in Japan, the canonical time should be JST.
For all of you that don't know what time zone they are in (and there's a few of you, don't deny it), this may help:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

Finally, our default online agenda - indico - has support for displaying the meeting time in your favorite time zone.
So please, let's all specify the time zone when we announce a meeting. And let's not miss any more meetings because of time zone confusion.