Math for Telecommuters

As a public service to the blogosphere, I will give the following advice:

6AM EST is not 9AM PST. It is, in fact, 3AM PST, and not a terribly appropriate time for an online meeting.

You’re welcome.

:)

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  1. Posted March 24, 2008 at 11:52 am | Permalink
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    Because, you know, there aren’t any on-line calculators to help you figure things like that out.

  2. Posted March 24, 2008 at 12:04 pm | Permalink
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    Well, I haven’t found any online calculators that will teach me when it’s appropriate to add as opposed to subtract… :)

    Maybe I should register meisdumb.com…

  3. Posted March 24, 2008 at 12:36 pm | Permalink
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    Outlook takes care of those things for you… you can even add another time zone to your calendar display using tools > options > calendar options > time zone. The app doesn’t seem to be very popular among schools, probably b/c of licensing cost and admin challenges.

    It is an ongoing issue though, the more geographically distributed we become… I have one Alaskan project team member who wants to take a couple of mornings a week off, while the rest of his project team is Eastern time, meaning their schedules don’t intersect those days. Bad choice. P

  4. Posted March 24, 2008 at 1:01 pm | Permalink
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    You can send this to them:
    http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

    :)

  5. Posted March 24, 2008 at 1:03 pm | Permalink
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    Well, the problem is, *I* was the dummy. ;)

  6. Posted March 24, 2008 at 2:14 pm | Permalink
    6

    Heheh. I’ve done that, though it was by calling a friend on the east coast while I was on the west coast. I got her father, who sounded very sleepy and vaguely annoyed. Oops…

  7. Posted March 24, 2008 at 2:30 pm | Permalink
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    I had a producer who used to call me in NY from LA and he could never figure out the time difference. He called me at 2 in the morning quite often.
    He said, “The sun comes up in NY before it does in LA, right? Then it’s gotta be earlier there.”

  8. Posted March 24, 2008 at 4:22 pm | Permalink
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    Oops. :)

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