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Do you have any meetings / conversations with people in other time zones? Particularly ones further away like say London or Sydney? It's easy enough to remember
by boulos 10y ago
Do you have any meetings / conversations with people in other time zones? Particularly ones further away like say London or Sydney? It's easy enough to remember +-3 within the US because we shift in unison (and your choice of UTC just means you'd memorize a different offset when someone says "10 AM Pacific") but interacting across real changes in time is hard. Unless you get everyone to use the same inputs, you're going to do this translation on all correspondence.
So how do you live? ;)
- thaumasiotes 10y agoThis doesn't make any sense. Minor: Los Angeles doesn't have a constant offset to UTC. But it changes rarely enough that it's easy to absorb the inconvenience. Major: if he was using Los Angeles time internally, he'd have all the same problems when interacting with anyone else. Using UTC internally, he still has those for counterparties that don't use UTC, but they disappear for counterparties that also use UTC. Using UTC is a strict upgrade in terms of interacting across "real changes in time". When I interact with people in a different time zone, I like to use their time, because I figure the odds of them messing up when using their own time are low. But if I didn't do that, I seriously doubt they would have more difficulty with my proposal "let's meet at 04:00 UTC" than with my proposal "let's meet at 12:00 pm my local time".
- andrewfromx 10y agoI convert back to LA time when I need to. It's fun math that keeps me sharp and helps me always program timezone aware apps because I'm always thinking about two different timezones.
- hx87 10y agoWhy would translation be difficult? It's just adding small integers to another small integer.