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07 December 2005
Time zones
The last time I lived in Europe, a lot of things were different:
* I was 11 or 16 years old
* There was no internet, or at least I had no access to it
* I wasn't working for an American company headquartered in California
* All my family was with me
The result was that I lived in a world consisting only of local features. It never occurred to me to think about what time it was somewhere else.
This time, time zones play a huge role in my life. I hold videoconference meetings with other Googlers in the evening - and they are only just getting to work. I listen to a Seattle radio station over the Internet, and it's the middle of the night - no commercials, no talking, a mostly automated mix; towards the end of the day, I hear the wake-up shows and remember my mornings in Seattle. Whenever I want to call my family, I do it late in the evening on a weekend - when they're reachable during the middle of the day. And every day at work I get a very manageable amount of email...only to come to work the next day having received hundreds of emails overnight while the folks in California were working.
posted by Stefan Pharies at 12:05
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