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Agreed. This movement should be replaced with a movement for remote teams to use UTC as their reference time. Right now, we use headquarters time, but less than

by natrius 11y ago

Agreed. This movement should be replaced with a movement for remote teams to use UTC as their reference time. Right now, we use headquarters time, but less than a third of the company works there, and no one in the other 2/3rds of the company is used to translating to that time zone. Every programmer has some experience translating to UTC, and if we make it the standard for remote teams, everyone will get used to it. Fewer mistakes will be made.

Symbiote 11y ago
Does the average American know their UTC offset? I ask as I doubt the average British person would know, and it's zero for part of the year, and +1 for the summer. But Americans have multiple time zones in their country, and we don't.
- natrius 11y ago
  No, only the average American programmer. Most others wouldn't know what UTC is and haven't had to think about GMT since elementary school.
  - Ao7bei3s 11y ago
    Which would mean time zones do actually work really well for most people, right?
dottedmag 11y ago
Doesn't it already happen in any sane distributed team?