As a southern hemisphere dwelling person, I find sometimes the other person doesn't always get the daylight savings hour right when they convert in their head, so I'm better able to trust someone who gives the time in their time.
I manage committees with 20+ members who connect from across the country or in some cases globally. Telling each member the meeting time in their time zone isn't possible, so I just say it in my time zone and they can all figure it out themselves. Usually their computer figures it out for them automatically, though.
It's especially annoying when someone tells me "it's at 12pm your time" or something like that, and then I have to figure out how to convert that from am/pm to 24-hour clock.
I usually ask people to just send me a Google Calendar invite, which will do the conversion for me.
well, checking timezone is pretty easy with computer, just type on google 7 am (his location) in (my location), done
ReplyDeleteYes. It's a mild annoyance at worst. But I permit myself some exaggeration with my comics
Deleteneutral: "How about we schedule to 7am GMT?" while one is in asia and the other in the americas.
ReplyDeleteHah, or just evil/evil
Deletewell, for asia it wouldnt be bad (12.00 to 17.00)
DeleteAs a southern hemisphere dwelling person, I find sometimes the other person doesn't always get the daylight savings hour right when they convert in their head, so I'm better able to trust someone who gives the time in their time.
ReplyDeleteI once failed miserably to be in the first category: there was 5 hours differences, but instead of removing 5h… I added 5h. Oops.
ReplyDeleteI manage committees with 20+ members who connect from across the country or in some cases globally. Telling each member the meeting time in their time zone isn't possible, so I just say it in my time zone and they can all figure it out themselves. Usually their computer figures it out for them automatically, though.
ReplyDeleteIt's especially annoying when someone tells me "it's at 12pm your time" or something like that, and then I have to figure out how to convert that from am/pm to 24-hour clock.
ReplyDeleteI usually ask people to just send me a Google Calendar invite, which will do the conversion for me.