[Foundation-l] Office hours ... the concept of time zones

[Waerth]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/9/30 Waerth <waerth at asianet.co.th>:
>   
>> Basically if there is room for two sets of office hours it should still
>> be possible to please most of the world. There are times when
>> Europe/Africa and the Americas overlap. And there are times when East
>> Asia/Australia and the Americas overlap .... There are no hours that all
>> 3 of these rough zones would overlap really and West Asia/Middle East
>> would be a bit tricky to fit in with these zones.
>>
>> Basically office hours for an Americas/East Asia/Australia zone would
>> overlap best from 0300 to 0500 UTC (Evening Americas, Morning/afternoon
>> East Asia/Australia and even west Asia could fit in)
>>     
>
> That's 8pm to 10pm in San Francisco (daylight saving time, 7pm to 9pm
> otherwise), I think this really needs to happen during business hours
> in SF, otherwise staff have to give up their free time for it. If they
> are willing to do that, then great, but we shouldn't expect them to.
That is true ... but it would be awfully nice if they would do ... maybe 
change their hours for those particular days (instead of 9 to 17 work 
from 14 to 22?) otherwise it would be difficult to fit Asia/Australia in 
in  any schedule really. The other option would be something like 0200 
utc (though very early for India) or 1400/1500 utc (but this would be 
very late for Japan and Australia/New Zealand).

Personally I would opt for 0200 utc then as that would squeeze by best I 
guess .....

I know I was being a tad aggressive but I get pretty upset when people 
plan things conveniently for the Europeans and Americans and forget that 
there are 3.5 billion people on other parts of the planet out there some 
of whom do participate .....

W