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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 3, 2009 3:21:06 GMT
We've probably all noticed that there are "shifts" on Any Port, and that certain other members are on at the same time. Well, not really. When I'm up very late at night I'm liable to run into Hwinpp because he's starting work in the morning where he is. About the time I'm ready to pack it in and go to bed, Kerouac is liable to log on because he's just gotten up. I am in the Central time zone. Off the top of my head, the other anyporters in the same zone are Casimira, Lola, Louis XIV, DonCuevas, Livaco, and Imec. Who else? Here's the Central group. Where is everyone else?  |
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 3, 2009 7:06:11 GMT
I'm in Cambodia. Lumped in with Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Indonesia. 7 hours ahead of GMT.  I think either Mokchok or Kimby are the first ones to see the new day or is anybody here from New Zeeland or even the Cook Islands? |
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Post by Kimby on Sept 6, 2009 21:00:30 GMT
No, I'm smack in the middle in Mountain Time Zone.
Though when we go to Australia in about 6 weeks, I'll be seeing the same sun as Mockchoc.
For me, there's good posting in the mornings and late in the evening, but a dead zone in the afternoon when folks in Europe are sleeping...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2009 21:46:49 GMT
I always seem to be able to be on the same time as hw,weird as it is ,he's into the next day. It used to throw me off because he'd be on when I went to sleep ,and still be on early in the a.m. and I used to think he was on the board all night! I always know it's past my bedtime when K. comes on.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 7, 2009 7:50:10 GMT
No worries Cas, I get enough sleep ;D
Bixa is also always online when I come to work.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2009 9:14:38 GMT
Bixa is online when I go to bed and when I get up the next morning.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 7, 2009 15:41:01 GMT
It's disconcerting to get email or PMs from people in the European time zone telling me that they're off to bed, when for me it's only four in the afternoon. To give an idea -- it's 10:40 in the morning as I write this, but 5:40 in the afternoon in Paris.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 7, 2009 18:00:30 GMT
I'm in Eastern Time Zone - I imagined bixa two time zones west of me - but see that the vast majority of Mexico is in Central, and only the northern half of Baja California is in Pacific. I have a lot of correspondents in Central Europe Zone (usually 6 hours difference) and some in Argentina (2 hours ahead of us, though it gets messed up a lot depending on summer times). The Central Europe Zone is confusing, as it also includes most of what thinks of as Western Europe, even Spain (though not Portugal, which is in Western).
Central Europe time covers a huge swath from Spain to Poland, so there is a great variance from real (solar) time.
I'm an early riser, as many have figured out. I work better in the early morning than late in the evening, and I have clients in Europe as well as here.
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Post by gringalais on Oct 14, 2009 18:08:09 GMT
We are on east coast US time from about March to October. Last week we changed the clocks ahead for spring, so we are an hour ahead and will be two hours ahead once the US changes back. It confuses my parents to no end.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 18:48:02 GMT
Winter time will begin on October 25th in Europe and apparently on November 1st in the United States. I wish that various countries would decide on common dates, like the EU did.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 14, 2009 20:09:15 GMT
Doing so would no doubt unacceptably impinge on each country's sacred sovereignty.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 14, 2009 22:08:15 GMT
I wish that various countries would decide on common dates, like the EU did. Better yet, why not all go back to using proper sun time to set our clocks by. Most of us don't live the agrarian life style and don't need the "extra hour of daylight" to bring in our crops... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2009 5:02:04 GMT
Yes, but it cuts back a tiny fraction on energy use.
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Post by Kim B on Oct 15, 2009 14:45:39 GMT
Actually, in the US recent studies found that we were using more energy in the dark mornings than we were saving in the evenings, up until the lengthening of daylight savings time a few years ago when we did begin to show a net savings of energy. So if we're going to share a calendar for Daylight Savings Time changeover dates, it should by OURS, not yours, Kerouac2. But I still favor leaving the clock alone. 12 noon is/should be when the sun is directly overhead, and we shouldn't have to re-calculate around that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2009 17:05:41 GMT
What I can't figure out is why Brazil changes time three times during the year since it is an equatorial country.
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