The London 2012 Ceremony by Google

 UPDATE-8/12/2012  The closing ceremony's time has been changed to 4:00pm ET (12:30am IRST).
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During London 2012 Olympic games, I was following results by searching "london2012" on Google. I think among Google, Bing and Yahoo, Google shows the result in the best format. Anyway, today I noticed that tomorrow is the Olympics closing ceremony. So I decided to search for the time of the ceremony. As I didn't know the exact phrase for this event, I googled "London 2012 ending ceremony" and Google suggested "London 2012 Closing Ceremony" that seems to be the correct phrase.

Then I pressed the space button and when I was wavering between typing "time" or "date", Google suggested immediately with "Time", "Date" and "Tickets". I chose "time" and then Google answered (beside the common results):

The Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games is on Sunday, August 12, 2012, at 3:00pm CT.

Amazing! That's why I love Google!

Google shows the London 2012 closing ceremony time separately, as you can see above the search results.

But to converting time of the ceremony to my homeland time (Iran), I just needed to use another search engine: the wonderful WolframAlpha! I used this input value: "3:pm CT to IRST" and the result was: "8:19:21 pm IRDT  |  Saturday, August 11, 2012". Tada!

Converting time zones by WolframAlpha.

Sometimes sticking just to one tool/thing/engine is not a pretty good idea and may even lead you to worse results. So, always seek different ways and try diffident tools, but do not lose your concentrate. That's the point!

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