Field note

Bangkok time against the marketplace clock

9 June 2026

A drop that opens at noon somewhere else can open after dinner in Bangkok. Ledgers keep both clocks so later readers do not argue about a morning that never happened here.

Sky over a city at dusk, a cue for time-zone differences on drop windows

Thailand sits seven hours ahead of UTC. Marketplace pages often show a clock that was written for another office. If you only screenshot the page, next month you will not remember whether the bundle opened before work or after the last BTS train.

The drop-window ledger writes Indochina Time first because that is when our readers actually looked at the pack. The original clock stays in the second column so the note can still be checked against the listing.

This is record-keeping, not a claim that time zones change the comics. The pages are the same. The human who missed lunch is not.