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Invariably when I am trying to setup some kind of international conf call I cant help but think that communication would be easier without timezones. Imagine t
by qyv 11y ago
Invariably when I am trying to setup some kind of international conf call I cant help but think that communication would be easier without timezones. Imagine the ease of coordinating world-wide tele-meetings if everyone just understood and used UTC. Yes technology often uses it under the hood, but if used it societally things would be so much simpler.
- hugh4 11y agoThough then you're just swapping that for the problem of remembering stuff like "Is 2am GMT a good time to call Japan?"
- kuschku 11y agoJapan will be around +10 hours, so it’s 12h – sure, noon. Remembering which country is where is standard in school, roughly estimating timezones from that is easy (US varies from -8 to -4, most of europe is 0 or +1 or +2, as is most of Africa, Russia is +3, middle east is around +3 and +4, china is +8, just like singapore and japan; australia, new zealand are between +10 and +12; I have no idea what the actual data is, just saying what I remember based on knowing the world map) As everyone knows GMT, and everyone knows the world map, the issue is solved.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoPeople do understand and use UTC. Google calendar is even smart enough to "translate" an event to your timezone. If I get an email with an event in a different timezone and put it on your Google Calendar it actually goes on your calendar in your local time zone. This screwed me up once when I moved to the other side of the world and forgot to update my timezone in Google.