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I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

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[–] Player2@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No because if you're talking to someone on the other side of the planet (thanks internet), you can schedule some sort of event with them without having to look up the time difference before hand

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but you need to know when they'd be sleeping, for example, so you still need to figure something out related to time differences.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You both just have present your working or availability hours beforehand. Honestly this works better for me than someone assuming I'm available for an 8am meeting. I live on the US east coast, but my sleeping schedule is more west coast.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I’m in the us east but work in a factory so I have to explain it anyways

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What if you don't want to ask for some specific reason? Time zones!

Checkmate!

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nope, that was a check! The reason of not wanting to ask for availability periods still exists with time zones.