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I am on the US East Coast and have frequent meetings with London. They are sensitive around not scheduling meetings too early in my day - and likewise I am sens
by anonu 5y ago
I am on the US East Coast and have frequent meetings with London. They are sensitive around not scheduling meetings too early in my day - and likewise I am sensitive to scheduling meetings too late in their day.
The mental model would have to shift:
Old Way: Add/Subtract X hours and map it to a "9 to 5" schedule to determine whether its "early" or "late"
New Way: Map "early" or "late" to the new timezone and location of the person.
Seems like the new way is too much of a hassle.
- soneil 5y agoThat's always been my problem with this. For everything that timezones currently solve, they suggest using solar time instead. So time zones, with a new name. Currently we reference local time for most things, and UTC when coordination is required. The suggestion appears to boil down to using UTC (or equivalent) as the default, and time zones for everything that requires coordination. Except renaming timezones so we can pretend they were solved.
- taneq 5y agoAre these not strictly equivalent? The only argument I can see against it is inertia - the new way (by virtue of that same strict equivalence) is no better and we're all already used to the old way.