Do you find it easy to deal with different time zones? For example, if you have Eastern time and another user has Pacific time and they posted something at 9:00 AM, would you be able to easily tell they posted it at 6:00 AM?
I'd be lying if I said I find it easy to deal with, but I have gotten more used to it. As a video editor on youtube who participates in a lot of contests and studios, I am used to working with people as far away as Australia. But there are many occasions where I totally forget. When it is 11 at night for me, it is 11 at night for them. I also still have trouble when talking with people from Pacific Standard Time, usually because while I am out of school they are still in school, and when I am going to bed they are just eating dinner. I mean, I am used to GMT at this point but I still have trouble with PST. And when daylight savings time hits and we either have to move forward or go back an hour, I am always annoyed because the rest of the world doesn't seem to have it.
Uhmm no, times zones were never easy for me to deal with. It's easy to calculate the time and all, but when you have friends in different time zones, it's hard to find the exact time when you can talk to them. Then there's the whole daylight savings time, which I never follow, and then the way schools start and end at different times of the year/day.
I find it pretty easy, actually, and I think it has to do with being australian, and having the rest of you live far away. Like I can pretty much tell the forum is dead at around 4pm here, but its all buzzy between 10am and 2pm...so I try to make that the time frame I talk to people. I have this one friend though who will message me at like, 7pm over here and he'll be like "its 5am and I can't sleep". So I have a general idea of time zones and when I can speak to others, because its so different. The best thing is when I post something late at night before I go to bed (such as this) and then I wake up the next morning with emails of replies...cos then I feel popular and such. While I'm sleeping, the forum still buzzes around apparently lol.
I honestly never think about it, and I've never met anyone who thinks about it as much as you. It doesn't matter as far as I'm concerned. All that matters is how close the posts are together in time. The only person that the actual time matters for is the poster. We all have the clock on here set to what's best for us, so it's all translated into effectively the same thing. For example, I see that Amethyst posted here at 9, but since we're in different time zones she didn't really post at 9, but she really did post an hour before me, which is all that matters, because to her I didn't really post at 10.
Being someone who's traveled a lot in his life, it's really easy for me. And besides, I could always look up time zones on my phone if I ever need to.
Over the years, I've learned to be more considerate given the fact that time zones can make things a bit difficult when it comes to scheduling. I don't really have a problem calculating them or anything, but it gets a bit annoying when someone you know lives twelve hours ahead.
Time zones can be confusing for me. If it is within three hours of my current time zone I can figure it out pretty easily. Any further I find it hard to keep track of exactly how far ahead they are. I just generally don't remember or don't know in the first place. Besides that it is just keeping track of which time zone people are in. Being on sites like this you talk to people from so many different places that it is easy to lose track of who is in what time zone sometimes. But for the most part I honestly don't care unless I am trying to contact someone and it might be too late for them and they are in bed. Sometimes I think it would be easier for there not to be time zones, but I know they are necessary so I just suck it up and try to remember who is in what time zone.
Eh. I've gotten used to it. I live in the East Coast during most of the year, and during the summers/Christmas I go to the Midwestern U.S. It was kinda' awkward at first, though.
Like what Railos said, I'm not that used to it. Though I'm used to chatting with my friend who is 11-13 hours earlier than in my time. I'm never sure when I can talk to them unless I know which time zone they're in. At the time my friends from other countries are online for the day, I might be sleeping. And I also don't know much about Daylight Savings Time. Since my country doesn't follow it.
It certainly depends for myself. I am well versed with certain time zones to the point that I can rattle off an expected approximation of another's time in either a general or precise manner, depending on my state of mind at the time, whether or not it is Daylight Savings, and other things to take into account. I know the time zone differences of North America by heart due to indoctrination from a young age, and I usually have a good idea of GMT-0 as reference. From there I can generally infer other European time zones, but for places such as South America or Asia, where a few of our members reside, I have little idea from the top of my head at all. Alas, such is the boon and bane of time zones. And Daylight Savings Time is another untamed dragon of a beast entirely ...
I'm used to it since I play games online a lot and have to remember what time zone friends live in, so I just keep a little notepad just for those times.
It isn't too troubling. I mean I have friends on every corner of the planet with wack timelines compared to mine. Still manage. Also had long distance with relationships and we managed times fine. Heck it made things better. We had time to ourselves because of it.
I think the longer the time difference is, the more I have difficulty with determining whether some one is ahead of me or behind me time-wise. With people on skype, there time is usually fixated to their own, so there's not much difficulty there. First month of Daylights Savings always has me whacked out.
