• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 hours ago

    “What time should I call you back, or what time will you be calling me? Is there a time-frame in which I should not call you? Me, I sleep from 10-to-18.”

    Do you not even know anyone who works second or third shift? Hell, when I was on a line-boat, we did 6 hours on shift, 6 hours off(sleeping). It wasn’t that hard for the half-dozen contacts I had set to bypass Do Not Disturb to remember not to call or text me during my off hours unless it was important, and of course I knew when to let them sleep.

    Let me ask you this: Do you remember your overseas friends’ sleep schedules by their time-zone, or yours?

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      16 hours ago

      “Some people work or sleep in irregular or differing schedules from everyone else, that’s why it’s totally reasonable to make everyone go through this song and dance to know what time is the normal time over where everyone lives.”

      What a fucking pain of a system you’ve though of. Imagine thinking your comment sounded reasonable when at least 90% of people follow approximately the typical “daylight time is the normal time” schedule. Going with a regular daylight time schedule is a reasonable assumption almost always. There’s a reason it’s followed and why time zones just make sense.

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        Even for sleep schedules 90% is a stretch between early risers an night owls and people who work unusual shifts and people who don’t work so they get up later and people who have insomnia so they might be up at unusual times,…

        However why do you people focus so much on sleep schedules when 99% of the time you want to know when someone is available for some shared activity or want to tell them when an activity is happening so they can judge if they can make it to that?

        Sleep schedules are not a common topic of discussion except for statements like “I have to go to sleep soon/now” and “I just got up” when talking to people who are far away and relative terms like “soon”/“now”/… would keep working the same way anyway.

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          However why do you people focus so much on sleep schedules when 99% of the time you want to know when someone is available for some shared activity or want to tell them when an activity is happening so they can judge if they can make it to that?

          Usually that’s set during daytime during what we’d call the workday. Which is usually the time between morning and evening, something that sun/daylight often sets. Something that time zones help to figure out instinctively…

          See where this is going?