Tuesday, July 1, 2008

20-May-08 Time Zones

In my work, I sometimes have to contact Sydney, Australia.....which is 10 hours time difference from Bournemouth. So, if I get into work by 6am, it's already 4pm in the afternoon. If it was most businesses there, many would already be rushing to the beach for a few hours on the waves. But as they are remote, many of them work late and are cognizant of keeping some overlap with the UK.

Conversely, when I'm ready to go home, people in the US are just starting to get in gear....and because we Americans are so self-geocentric....we just assume everyone's going to work our same hours. "How dare they be gone from work when it's only 2pm in the afternoon locally?" People do realize when you are gone from work......but it's nice to come into work the next day and have a flood of new emails in their in-box. Hee hee hee....although they catch on, and you get the reverse as well. :(

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