Time zones?

What a pain in the ahem, excuse me. Seriously though, what moron thought of this crap? Yeah sure, it would be weird if time was the same everywhere and 11 am meant late morning here and late evening half way around the world but it would be so much less hassle. Doesn’t it totally suck when you’re trying to book a flight somewhere and you can’t figure out the time that it’s going to be? So, you’re a student and you want some cheap student airfares say to Europe, particularly a cheap student airfare to Barcelona, Spain. You just want a relaxing vacation on the beach, hanging out, playing some poker, and who knows, maybe you’ll see Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt with Angelina Jolie and their new twins, or some other famous celebrity there. So, you go onto StudentUniverse.com because your friend told you that you could get cheap tickets there because you’re a student. You’re all excited for your trip out to Spain for Spring Break 09 and your friend happens to be studying abroad in Barcelona and is meeting you at the airport. So, you’re booking your ticket from Boston to Barcelona and the website tells you that it’s going to take you 17 hours leaving Friday afternoon and arriving Saturday morning. You know that doesn’t make sense but you’re not sure why. Then you remember the pesky time difference. So, you look it up and find out that Barcelona is 6 hours ahead of Boston. Ok, so is your departure time in Boston time or Barcelona time? What about the arrival time? You figure out that they can’t be both on the same time zones because it doesn’t take 17 hours to get to Barcelona and that the times must be respective to where you are at the time. But it’s too late. You just wasted 10 minutes of your life figuring that crap out and you could’ve had your cheap student flight already booked and been halfway through packing by now. Like I said, time zones are a waste of time, literally.