S/o of ML's where do you live post...time zones

[kradleygirl]

Hi all.

I participated in the where do you live post and noticed some people seemed a little funny about time zones etc.

Like the fact that I'm in Sydney, oz and its currently 12:53pm on the 23rd June. I personally don't find it that mind bending or consider it "time traveling".

Guess I'm just wondering everyone's thoughts.


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[Deleted]

How could anyone find that "mind bending"?

I've done three deployments in Afghanistan, which is 4:30 ahead of GMT. We were doing 24-hour combat operations, and all of our ops were scheduled in GMT, so we set our watches to GMT. But we "lived" in a local time. Breakfast was served in the chow hall from 5:30-8:30 local, which was 1:00-4:00 on my watch. Was that "mind-bedning" or "time travel"?? No. Time is time, and it is always time, no matter what you call it. Days and hours are just labels we use in a construct to make things make sense to us, but really they are meaningless.

This is a really deep conversation for 8:08 Local, 7:08GMT, XX:08 wherever anyone else is.

[wise_rita]

I find it mind bending that you can land in the US before you departed from Australia.

I wouldn't call it mind bending, but the fact that you skip an entire day when flying from the US to Australia is pretty trippy.

[tricolore]

My limited mind is more 'bent' by the Xmas in the summer thing than the time zones ! Ok, so it's not actually mind-bending, but I've never been/lived in the southern hemisphere, so it still kind of gives me a kick. I lead a dull-life .

[Deleted]

I'll tell you what's mind bending. The fact that after YEARS of me living in this time zone my parents still come to the phone and say "Why so late? It's 3pm!?"


IT IS NOT FUCKING 3 O'CLOCK - IT'S 9 AM DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you for letting me let this out.

[jupiter2311]

Jun 23, 2012 19:17:48 GMT -5 @jewels6711 said:

I'll tell you what's mind bending. The fact that after YEARS of me living in this time zone my parents still come to the phone and say "Why so late? It's 3pm!?"


IT IS NOT FUCKING 3 O'CLOCK - IT'S 9 AM DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Thank you for letting me let this out.

HAHAHA, my dad does this to me ALL the time. He either asks if 1. I worked today (and it's Saturday), 2. If I'm going to work (when he calls at 8pm - our time) or 3. If I'm just getting home (If I called on a Saturday at 3pm our time)

I give him the benefit of the doubt when I'm in a good mood, because he's older, but if I'm grumpy, I always think, How hard is it to grasp there is an effing time difference??

[clogged]

I told my parents to google "local time *city name*" to get the exact time it is where I live before they call. Cuz I wasn't feeling the middle of the night phone calls. I also suggested a smaller clock next to theirs with my time on it. They don't do either one.

Really. It's not hard folks.

[Wanderista]

I adjust pretty easily to time zone changes. For jetlag, I might feel sucky for a day but I'm pretty good at adjusting. I've never been to Asia or Australia but I would probably adapt. I spend a lot of time dealing with people in various different time zones and I've gotten good about knowing what time it is in a number of different places at any given time.

I've never been over the International Date Line and it would be a little weird at first, but I am pretty much someone who goes with the flow of the local culture wherever I go. I try to avoid too much questioning. Today is now tomorrow? Ok then.

[GilliC]

The top 5 time zone things that I find terribly weird:

5. Places that are in a ½-hour time zone. Years of calculating the time difference to XH's family in India (GMT+5:30) drove me nuts. I usually just ignored the extra half hour if I didn't need to be extremely precise.

4. The fact that different places switch to/from Daylight Savings Time on different dates. Whenever I schedule a meeting in the spring/fall, I have to go to timezoneconverter.com to take the date into account when doing the time conversion. Did you know that places also change at different times?! Some countries move at 2am, some at midnight... WTF! How are we supposed to keep track of this without a dedicated app?!

3. Islands in the pacific that are in the GMT+13 time zone. I understand why they did it, but that really is living in the future. They're a full day ahead of the time they're supposed to be in. ...Plus they get the new year first, because they're big cheaters! Haha!

2. The equatorial shift when it comes to Daylight Savings Time. The northern hemisphere goes one way, while the southern hemisphere goes the other. So while Brazil is 5 hours away right now, in the fall we'll shift back to being only 3 hours apart.

1. More DST than time zone-related, but the hour that happens twice each year! I always wondered what would happen if for some reason I scheduled a meeting in it, what would happen? How many people would pick the first one, and how many would pick the second? Hence the reason they do it in the middle of the night. However, since a lot of bars have to close at 2am here, and the clocks change at 2, everyone loves the "fall back" day here because the bars stay open an extra hour.

And I posted on Facebook last fall when I was leaving Brazil the day they changed. They switch at midnight, and I almost ended up in my "something scheduled for the double hour" scenario but my flight out was scheduled for 11:55pm. Kind of glad there was no confusion since missing the flight or sitting around the airport for an extra hour didn't sound like fun options. In the end the flight was delayed 30 minutes, so we took off 30 minutes early and landed 30 minutes late. Now that's mind-bending.

[bail229]

I was so glad when my family started getting iPhones and putting Sydney in the world clock. I haven't had any middle of the night phone calls in a while thank goodness!

[bugabean]

I find that most people screw up time zones. The number of people in the UK that believe they're on GMT right now, and the number of people in North America who say "standard time" year-round, is more mind bending than the fact that Australia is in a different time zone than I am. You'd think DST was brain surgery.

[crimsonandclover]

I went to college in a state that doesn't do DST, except for the 2 northwestern counties, including the one my college was in. That just seems strange to me. How did those two counties get the exemption from the exemption?

Otherwise, I just go with the flow in terms of time zones. Yes, I have made the calculation wrong before and woke up my parents because I called an hour earlier than I had intended, but it's really not that difficult of a concept.

And Gilli - those 1/2 hour zones are just weird.