I've done my current job in X time zones ...
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I've done my current job in X time zones ...
This is the theory that Jack built. This is the flaw that lay in the theory that Jack built. This is the palpable verbal haze that hid the flaw that lay in...
I lost count, but that's okay (Score:1)
I'm guessing 5 or 6. I've had fun dealing with things while out of country. When I'm half-way around the world, I take a bit of satisfaction from answering vendor emails while they're asleep.
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Wow. We're impressed. So, tell us all about this international pizza shop you travel around for to deliver pizza to hungry foreigners.
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:: chuckle :: Impressed I was able to get out of the basement? It's not that hard once you learn to turn to doorknob. Well, we started in Istanbul before it was called Istanbul. Then we moved to London. Eventually we settled in [redacted]. We used pita before we could get the right kind of flour for what we now call pizza dough. And you could order any toppings you wanted as long as you only wanted olives.
Actually no, not pizza. Customizing software for order/processing - businesses like t-shirt printing, b
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options are confusing (Score:5, Insightful)
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"All of them" :)
Now seriously, I worked ALL timezones. Worked EMEA Shift for a while APAC Shift for a while, now I'm working AMER shift (from Europe) and been doing so for 7+ years. 5 PM to 2 AM my time.
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How about these guys?
http://www.isstracker.com/ [isstracker.com]
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From whose point of view?
If, at some point in time, you were awake during each of the "regular" 24h that cover the globe, you were also awake during whichever weird timezone existed in any place on Earth, so technically you were "working" at the time. it wasn't YOUR timezone, but it was THEIR timezone, so it still applies.
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I am not denying that there are far more than 24 time zones, just that the odd balls that are not +/- a whole number of hours, or where that value is more than 12 are not major ones.
I appreciate your post, however your use of the modifier major is probably not shared by the majority of the planet or any authoritative source in this context. Still happy to see citations otherwise. Claiming (for example) that a time zone that houses approximately 1/7th of the worlds population is "not a major time zone" is an extraordinary claim.
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I really doubt that anybody has worked in all the different time zones
Ah, but it depends on how you parse the question. I've worked in all the time zones I've worked in.
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Yes, except we've both given examples of circular or self-referential statements. A tautology would be "I've worked in many different time zones because I've worked in places separated by enough distance so that the time was different between them."
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APAC = Asia/Pacific
AMER = Americas
AM = antemeridian
PM = postmeridian
ALL = you're an idiot. You're welcome. Have a nice day.
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I guess the US Navy are now considered idiots.
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Ask any soldier, airman, or marine, and they'll agree it's so.
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AM = antemeridian
PM = postmeridian
UM = Uncle Meridian
Still living Dangerously after all these years....
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Gah. Almost forgot:
ATLM = All the little Meridians
MM (Score:2)
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MM = mailmeridian
It's the American version of postmeridian ;-)
In that case, shouldn't it be 'Muricanmeridian?
Because, you know - 'Murica!
Re:options are confusing (Score:5, Informative)
AM = antemeridian
PM = postmeridian.
Just to be pedantic, AM and PM don't directly have anything to do with meridians. They stand for ante meridiem and post meridiem respectively, Meridiem [wikipedia.org] means [thefreedictionary.com] midday [reference.com] in Latin [merriam-webster.com].
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There's this wonderful thing called "The Internet" and it has this amazing feature called "Search". You should really try it sometimes. It's a mind blower (if there's anything that can be blown in your tiny little rainstopper which you call head).
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Which do i put if it's exactly 3 ?
That is impossible to tell. The poll is flawed.
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At this point I think it would be more disturbing if the poll didn't have any flaws. It's a /. tradition.
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Which do i put if it's exactly 3 ?
yes.
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"3" is not an option at all. The options are...
X = 1
X = (2-3) = -1
X = (3-6) = -3
X = (7-12) = -5
X > 12
24
So for 3, I'd say pick "1" or "-3" -- whichever you think reflects your situation better.
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I answered based on my current job title and that included a bit with a previous employer where I had to "dial in" from vacation adding another time zone to my grand total.
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As in actually gone to different time zones to work or work on systems in various time zones? I have UTC/EST/CST/MST plus Alaska and Hawaii servers so 6 if that's what you're counting. Double that if you're counting the output of date (MST vs MDT).
I did have to fly overnight to Dallas to work on a crashed server and to California for a class so 3 if you only count physical visits.
[John]
Where's my body vs. where's the work? (Score:2)
Most of the time I'm physically located in PST8PDT, though during the time I've had this job I've also had a business trip to EST5EDT and a vacation trip to Hawaii where one thing I did was visit a coworker who lives out there, spent a couple of weeks helping my mom after she had knee surgery and worked from there, and that doesn't count checking email at airports in mountain and central time zones (with various values of Daylight Savings Trickiness.) So physically it's probably 5 zones.
But where my body's
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Two or three, sorta (Score:2)
My work doesn't move around - but, in the past, I have had to deal with emergencies while I was on vacation far, far away...
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I got a call from a coworker once and told him I couldn't talk long because I was underwater - literally. It was one of those tourist submarines in Hawaii, and they hadn't closed the hatch door yet. (I'd rather scuba dive, but it was a way to get my mom and some of the younger nieces and nephews to be able to see all the fish and coral.)
And yeah, go Snowden!
Martian Time Zones (Score:1)
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Hell, what if a /.er is on the ISS right now?
They are in all of them each day, yet above all of them too.
Insensitive clod! (Score:2)
I'm temporarily retired, you insensitive clod! (Meaning I quit my last job a couple years ago with no intention of finding a new one any time soon but I'll do some sort of work again some day.)
When I did work, I always worked from a single time zone. Tho I did work often with remote offices, clients, agencies, and vendors in other time zones. And I did send pre-configured equipment across time zones with installation instructions. I remotely accessed lots of equipment in different time zones. Buy my fa
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Daylight Savings vs. Real Time?
What counts as location? (Score:1)
Well one desk/office/whatnot in one timezone, the boxes I actually work on all over the damn planet. So which counts?
"Time Zones" How 1960s (Score:2)
If you're in North America you could be dealing with people in any of 4 1/2 time zones, but with e-mail etc what does it matter?
Or with contractors and consultants on the other side of the globe.
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If you're trying to set up a meeting with team members in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Bangalore, time zones matter a lot. Email is insufficient, unless you like waiting a full day for a conversation that should take ten minutes.
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If you're in North America you could be dealing with people in any of 4 1/2 time zones, but with e-mail etc what does it matter?
Explain half a time zone? Is it like quantum superposition, you're there and you're somewhere else, too? Or, is it like baseball where you're a half game back?
I voted 3-6 but... (Score:3)
I remember a time when I was still working for HP, and was in charge of setting up support some global customers.
I was based in Sydney, had to deal with one of HP's call centre operations out of Chennai. This is normally fine becuase they were only 5 hours difference, so there were a few working hours overlap.
The problem was, this particular group operated for some reason on GMT time, so it really annoyed me because there were no working hours overlap, and they simply would not work with me during my business hours!
Anyway, back to the survey, I've only worked for a living in 5 distinct timezones, (not counting supporting anyone/thing in a different timezone)
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You mean a customer wouldn't kiss your ass and work on your schedule?
I'm shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked that a customer would expect you to provide them with service.
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Try reading that again.
I was still working for HP
had to deal with one of HP's call centre operations
There were no "customers" involved, just different groups in the same company.
Antarctica (Score:2)
Re:Antarctica (Score:4, Informative)
So what if you are stationed at a base in Antarctica, right at the very geographic south pole? Your whole body could be straddling every time zone at once.
If you are standing at the north pole, you are standing in 25 official time zones at once. If you are standing at the south pole you are standing in 26 official time zones at once. There are over 50 official time zones in the world. For example India, Afganistan and Iran use time zones offset by 30 minutes from the standard 24 time zones. Some countries like Nepal use a time zone offset by 15 minutes.
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So what if you are stationed at a base in Antarctica, right at the very geographic south pole? Your whole body could be straddling every time zone at once.
Not quite. On the east code of Australia we have timezones for Queensland, New South Wales/Victoria, and Hobart. That's three timezones for approximately the same longitude. The reason is that DST makes no sense for Queensland, but does for NSW/Victoria/Hobart, but Hobart is far enough south that different start/stop times for DST are more appropriate there.
So even if you were at the south pole in the same longitude as the east coast of Australia, you wouldn't be in any of the Australian timezones. (unless
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X? (Score:2)
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Did I do the job? (Score:1)
Or was I in Soviet Russia?
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Not to mention vibrator repair technicians...
It has its ups and downs
Exactly one (Score:2)
UTC
and so should you
So many bugs could be prevented. Only convert it to local time where you display it
welcome to Europe... (Score:1)
...where you can work in N countries - for large values of N - and still be within 2-3 timezones.
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I think CET (central europe time, GMT +1) houses about 400 million people and 20 countries.
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I use UTC (Score:2)
Mhhhhh, bad representation. (Score:2)
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It depends ... (Score:3)
It depends upon how you define it.
Work, my office, near the coffee machine, right now: 1. Same as everybody.
Colleagues conversed with today in different time zones: (Counting in head) 1,2,3 ... 4. 4 times zone. But, if you count that the problem actually occured somewhere in the east of Russia, then that is a lot more. Our Indian developement center ... screwing up their passwords in an effort to not actually do any useful work ... add another couple.
Waiting for West coast of US and our colleagues there to really get going. That makes ... um ... more.
And if you also count being I.T. support for mum and dad, then by the time Melbourne is awake (around midnight here) then .... we've done a lap around the planet.
Yup, sleep when I'm dead. (Please be soon).
I worked at Greenwich observatory (Score:2)
Does travel count? (Score:1)
Does it count as doing my job in multiple time zones if I have to travel for my job? How about if the travel only involves going to conferences, rather than my regular professional duties?
Define current job (Score:1)
I've done many of my jobs in many time zones.
Join the Army and see the world they said.
Depends on how you count it (Score:3)
I live and work in one time zone.
I've visited company sites and customers in two more time zones.
I've talked to customers in four more time zones.
Many of the systems I use operate on UTC.
...laura
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Two (Score:2)
This is easy. (Score:2)
Britain has one timezone, I only worked one timezone in Australia, and although I've lived in three timezones in the US, I've only been employed in two.
If you include the number of timezones that servers were in, my work for CERN covered a number as did my work for the Australia National University, NASA and Intel. However, counting those would be stupid as I didn't work in those areas. Computer programming is 95% asynchronous with the rest of the team, so it doesn't matter where people are. My hatred of te
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I am inventing (Score:2)
I am trying to invent a time system for a book I am writing..
As some of the story is set in space habitats. they are not stuck with the length of the day on Earth. I am making the day 1,000,000 seconds long and they have a day off every 5th day but the week is 10 days long. This would be 10E7 seconds
My mind has been working in this time zone for some time so I have added it to my total.
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I am making the day 1,000,000 seconds long
That is a long day. 24 hours == 86400 seconds.
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I haven't worked it all through yet but I wanted to stick to SI units of possible.
There will, of course be some people from what is currently the USA in it. They of course will be using units such as pounds, feet etc. Nobody else will have a real idea what they are talking about without a calculator or something - just like now.
There are some pretty accurate clocks on satellites right now. More of the same I suppose.
Where is 0? (Score:2)
Delaware Time (Score:2)
Re:Are the X=1's legit? (Score:5, Informative)
West coast *zone* is US/Pacific. The actual clock time may reflect PST or PDT, but the zone doesn't change. I don't have to adjust my TZ= variable twice a year.
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Um, Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone, so it's never on PST *or* PDT. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AUS-Timezones.svg [wikipedia.org]
A zone is a physical part of the planet. Whether parts of that zone happen to observe daylight time is irrelevant. Zones are defined in terms of the *standard time* they observe. Though I admit that parts of AZ may have to use a different setting for the TZ variable than other MT places, which somewhat undermines my original post. But officially, it's all one zone. Daylight time is a t
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Actually, it kind of does.
ET == [EST or EDT, depending on the time of year]
So, if you look at your timezone as "ET", then yeah, it's one timezone.
However, if you look at your timezone as EST or EDT, it's two.
Personally, I look at it both ways, depending on the context of what I'm doing.
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EST and EDT are times, not zones. ET may refer to the zone or the time within that zone, depending on the context, but there is no "Eastern Daylight Zone". Just an Eastern Time Zone.
time zone (n): a geographic region within which the same standard time is used.
(From Webster's on-line [merriam-webster.com], emphasis mine.)
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Re:Zulu time (Score:4, Funny)
Morbo is amused by puny human thinking!
Linda?
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No, sidereal time.
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Like CowboyNeal, I work in two at once.
You fool! CowboyNeal is a Temporal Master! He works in all time zones at once and across all times at once.