HUMOR
We Only Need One Time Zone Now
Welcome to Internet Standard Time!
We used to interact only with the people living near us, and we generally scheduled all activities to coincide with daylight hours. Until we developed long-distance communication, nobody knew or cared that people living far away woke up to an earlier or later sunrise.
Now? There’s a decent chance you interact with people living in different time zones more often than you do your next-door neighbor.
I know you’ve had the experience of trying to set up a meeting with people in multiple time zones, and it’s not a pretty process. Especially if, like me, you tend to get muddled by such things.
We don’t live by solar time
Few of us live our lives only in daytime hours now. It’s routine in today’s world to deal with people on the other side of the country or even on the other side of the world. We are bound neither by solar time nor by geography.
My husband is a buyer. He occasionally has to wait a day to hear back from foreign suppliers, since the emails he sends in the middle of his day arrive in the middle of their night.
Similarly, I sometimes purchase work from Fiverr, which helpfully tells you what the local time is where the other…
