What happens when a lot of your e-friends are five to six (or more) time zones away?

[Makalakumu]

When I am up and ready post, everyone is in bed. Oh well, I guess that designates me as the PWI (posting while intoxicated) hander outer. Hey you people over near the Prime Meridian!

Good Morning! What's for breakfast?

 

[MBuzzy]

I feel your pain. I spent my first year at MT over 12 hours away from everyone else!

 

[Sukerkin]

Aye, I've ever been grateful for the fact that I'm a night-owl so I can stay up 'til two or three in the morning to chat with you chaps.

 

[tellner]

Cory Doctorow is a heck of a writer. But as this discussion shows he was completely off the mark with Eastern Standard Tribe. Maybe something like this little nugget from XKCD is closer to the truth:

 

[tshadowchaser]

Having moved allover this country and being time zones away from many I called friends I know the feeling of frustration in not being able to be with them or see them on any regularity.
Had bacon, and potatoes for breakfast but then I did not get up till 3PM

 

[kidswarrior]

What happens when a lot of your e-friends are five to six (or more) time zones away?

That's when you join Martial Talk.

 

[Kacey]

I have a friend who lives in Hawaii (Hilo, if you're wondering) - she moved there from Denver several years ago. We talk in the morning to early afternoon there, which is in the late afternoon to early evening here; depending on DST, it's a 4 or 5 hour difference.

My father and sister live in Jerusalem; I call in the morning and it's early evening there - again depending on DST (Israel's changes at different dates than Denver's - where Hawaii doesn't use it at all, I think), it's an 8 or 9 hour difference.

Either way, that's one of the joys of email and bulletin boards - no one has to worry about accidentally waking someone up!

 

[Sukerkin]

Either way, that's one of the joys of email and bulletin boards - no one has to worry about accidentally waking someone up!

Good point .

Mind you, I often run into the reverse problem i.e. I'm currently trying to go to bed as it's nearly 3AM and people keep posting stuff that gets my attention :lol:..

 

[Makalakumu]

Wow, that's an 11 to 12 hour difference for us. I'm eating breakfast when you are eating supper!

 

[kidswarrior]

Wow, that's an 11 to 12 hour difference for us. I'm eating breakfast when you are eating supper!

Stunning when you think that 12 hours is literally half a world away.

My father and sister live in Jerusalem; I call in the morning and it's early evening there - again depending on DST (Israel's changes at different dates than Denver's - where Hawaii doesn't use it at all, I think), it's an 8 or 9 hour difference.

I hadn't stopped to think Jerusalem's on the Eastern Mediterranean. So from west to east, must be a couple of time zones, at least, huh?

 

[Kacey]

Stunning when you think that 12 hours is literally half a world away.

I hadn't stopped to think Jerusalem's on the Eastern Mediterranean. So from west to east, must be a couple of time zones, at least, huh?

No, I think the whole country is in one time zone, if that's what you're asking.