Address book time

Dear All,
Does anyone know of a way to have the local time _of the person represented_ displayed on their Address Book 'card'?
I had this set up on my old Hypercard stack and found it incredibly useful! Of course there are many third party apps that will show world time but I cannot find one that shows specifically the time for someone one is about to call/e-mail/IM etc. which seems so obviously useful I cannot see how people manage without! It also seems pretty easy to implement.
Perhaps this is just in the Apple suggestion category - but I wanted to check first!
And FWIW a similar iPhone function would be nice, too!

it's an interesting suggestion as i said. I quite like it personally. but I monitor these forums quite closely and I've never seen it requested. unfortunately, that means that the chances of apple implementing it are not very high. but it does not mean that you should not request it. by all means, submit feedback on it to apple. you never know.

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Begin forwarded message:
From: Frances Topping <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: - Old computer I had is OSX Snow Leopard with Entourage. New one is OSX Mavericks. Using Mail where are my addresses and old address book. Transferred old computer backup by Time Machine and other things work? Can't see a symbol for address book.
Date: August 25, 2014 at 9:46:01 AM EDT
To: discussions-replies <[email protected]>
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J'ai aussi ce problème... depuis longtemps.
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