Subj : Re: who threw the whiskey in the well? To : Maurice Kinal From : Kurt Weiske Date : Sat Oct 26 2024 08:09 am -=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Karel Kral <=- MK> Given that I am on the west coast of NA, I'd be an early bird in this MK> situation. Right now we're on dst but in a couple of weeks that will MK> change to standard time, which happens to be more accurate with respect MK> to the sun. However I'd probably still operate on UTC given the MK> complications built into localtime. I've been tuned to UTC for half my MK> life now so it isn't an issue with me and most definetly isn't to any MK> machine here as it simplifies everything. I'm on the west coast as well. My parent company headquarters are in Paris, 10 hours ahead. My regional headquarters is in Houston, 2 hours ahead. My boss is 3 hours ahead, but insists on getting into the office at 7:30am and leaves at 4:30pm - which is 4:30am to 1:30pm my time. My compromise is to work 8-5 Houston time and take an early afternoon off. I still get meeting invites for 5am, midnight, and as always, noon. I think I need to re-read Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe. Back in the days of Big Iron, I knew people who worked swing and graveyard shifts feeding the apparatus of computing - backing up disks to tape, printing reports, running maintenance routines. These took all night long, and the people ended up on their own circadian rhythms. The biggest downside I heard was that Every Meal Was Breakfast. You wake up around 5pm, and want breakfast. Lunch break is around 2am, and it's 24 hour diner time. When you get off work at 8, everyone is serving breakfast. MK> It sounds to me that in your situation the times used were probably the MK> best for all concerned. In my situation morning is always better so it MK> probably would have worked for me. MK> Life is good, MK> Maurice MK> o- o- o- -o -o o- -o -o o- o- -o -o -o -o MK> o- o- /) /) /) (\ (\ /) (\ (\ /) /) (\ (\ (\ MK> (\ /) /) ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ MK> ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ... Fidonet 4K - Sweet Sixteen Penguins of the MK> Apocalypse. --- GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release MK> (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MK> * Origin: One of us @ (1:153/7001.2989) --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/1) .