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

[Robert Rohde]

Really, this all feels very simple to me.

You take the earliest time in the morning and the latest time in the
afternoon that people working in an office in San Francisco are will
to accommodate.  Will that satisfy everyone?  No.  However picking
times at the start and the end of the business day is probably the
most that it is reasonable to ask of the staff as an ongoing
commitment.

-Robert Rohde

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Waerth <waerth at asianet.co.th> wrote:
> 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
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