I just found a great tool that will definitely make a lot of things faster and easier in my daily Outlook work flow. As I’m working with partners spread all over the world I always have to consider the partners time zone. I don’t want to wake someone up, disturb the lunch break or mess with them after they left the office. Its easy to use Outlooks build in time zone feature when sending out meeting requests, but there was no such thing for the daily email communication.
The Lifehacker blog posted a nice articel on this nifty tool that will display the sender’s timezone on top of each email. And best of all, it does not only tell you “the sender is in timzone GMT+4, it will also tell you directly what the sender’s current time is.
This handy little plug-in for Outlook will take just a few minutes of your time on installation. Once the Sender’s Time Zone for Outlook plug-in is installed, no setting and no configuring is required. You just open an e-mail message and besides the standard Outlook timestamp you will see the sender’s current time as well as your time zone difference. From now on you will never be confused with the time zones differences. You will see at a glance when the e-mail was really sent, regardless of where the sender’s office is located, whether it be East or West coast (EST, EDT, CST, CDT, PST or PDT), Europe (GMT, WET, CET, EET) or Asia.
Download the Sender’s Time Zone Outlook plugin here!
via Lifehacker
