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Oh, wow, that's the silliest argument I've ever read. I've been working with people in other countries and traveling abroad on a regular basis for the past 7 ye
by dguaraglia 15y ago
Oh, wow, that's the silliest argument I've ever read. I've been working with people in other countries and traveling abroad on a regular basis for the past 7 years and literally never had an issue scheduling a meeting or getting to a flight on time.
Most of the scheduling issues are related to the actual time difference between the two geographical places: by the time someone in California is done with breakfast, commute and ready for the meeting, the guys in NYC might be heading out for lunch. But living in a unique timezone won't fix that, the same way it won't fix the Southern hemisphere being always in the 'wrong season'. In fact, it'd aggravate the problem when traveling even a few hundred miles: "uh, what time do banks operate here? Is it too late for lunch?".
The world is a (roughly) spherical body. Sol raises from the East. Learn to think in those terms, and you'll avoid most problems.
- Osiris 15y agoSo if you're setting up a meeting with people that live in, say, Hong Kong, you don't have to pull up a world clock website and try to figure out, "Well if I want a meeting at 10:00am their time, that's UTC+10 and I'm UTC-5 so thats going to be ... my time?" I find it hard to believe that you'd never had to stop and try to figure out the time differences between timezones to try to figure out when a good meeting time would be.
- ricardobeat 15y agoIs it really that complicated? Just forget am/pm and think 24h: 10 + 5 = 15 10h - 15 = 19h previous day Or alternatively, fire up http://www.wolframalpha.com/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and type "10am UTC+10 in UTC-5", problem solved. The thing is you'd have the same problem if the whole world was on the same clock. It would be even more difficult since we'd lose all time references we have (noon, midnight...)