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It kinda sucks living downunder because you guys are all up when I'm sleeping so by the time I get on the site, all the posts have been replied to lol! Also means that if i wanna get some decent opponents on online games, I gotta stay up till the middle of the night! But then again, maybe you guys should just stay awake when I'm awake

RookieStickshifter wrote:It kinda sucks living downunder because you guys are all up when I'm sleeping so by the time I get on the site, all the posts have been replied to lol! Also means that if i wanna get some decent opponents on online games, I gotta stay up till the middle of the night! But then again, maybe you guys should just stay awake when I'm awake

listen rook.... im jk. im in the same boat... although not as bad. im at work with no comp till 5 wich is 8 on most of the continent... so by the time i get back all the cool threads have been replied to.

Well I'm at GMT+4 and I use the computer at really odd times (3AM or 11 PM) so I guess it all balances out.


Most of the times I find something to reply in the replies themselves not the main topic.

Recruit some of your fellow countrymen, mate! Get them involved in the Standardshift craze!

Meh, Kiwis are sissies! lol!

Hahaha, calling the all-blacks sissies?!?

Yeah tell me about it, sorta just log on, spend the next 30 mins reading all the stuff that was posted while i was sleeping, making a bunch of posts and going to sleep lol

Shaolin wrote:Hahaha, calling the all-blacks sissies?!?

Yeah

I agree I have the same trouble.

well, eastern europe... same thing. Im all alone here

I'm in your forum, posting at the wrong time for you...

Time zones made sense when people could travel at only sailboat speeds. Nobody got jet-lag when they came to a different continent. Now, with fast travel speeds and internet connections, we should all operate in the same time zone. Every 4 years, like the Olympics, a selected nation could become the time zone host.

Rope-Pusher wrote:Time zones made sense when people could travel at only sailboat speeds. Nobody got jet-lag when they came to a different continent. Now, with fast travel speeds and internet connections, we should all operate in the same time zone. Every 4 years, like the Olympics, a selected nation could become the time zone host.

Err... I don't really understand how abolishing time zones would affect to jet-lag of which people suffer from when travelling east or west. Sun would still rise at your destination when your body says it hasn't even set yet, and you would feel like shit and need a drink no matter what the time was according to your watch.

Tups wrote:need a drink no matter what the time was

You don't have to travel halfway across the world for that!

First, it would help you forum posters and others who want/need to be on the same time schedule together.
Second, we still can't travel at light speed (come on Science, what's keeping you?), so it's not like you would get to the other side of the earth and be 12 hours off in your solar day.
Third, the reason I suggested rotating time hosts is that there is no way getting around the sunshine factor. Some areas would feel like they are "working the graveyard shift". There is no way of getting out of that for a lot of folks now, hospitals, factories, stores, and other employers need to be staffed 24-7 already. With 1 time zone for the world, at least those folks would get to see the sun for part or parts of their careers.