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None of the above (Score:3, Funny)
Oh,
wait.
Re:None of the above (Score:2)
I want to live several timezones to the south!
Oh,
wait.
My sentiments entirely. A few hours flight south would be nice, especially during the winter months.
We're much too close to the arctic circle for comfort (we're about 62.5N).
Two timezones to the west - Alaska (Score:2)
I hope to make it back there soon.
Re:Two timezones to the west - Alaska (Score:2)
Bodö, Norway, Kiruna, Sweden are both at 62.5N and both are way south of Kirkenes, Norway at 69.73N,30.03E, and even more south from Nordkapp, Norway at 71.12N,25.78E.
But if you want to go really north; Svalbard at 78.60N,16.03E - It's so very North that you have lower taxes if you select to work there.
And Sitka, Alaska; 57.05N,135.55W - that's still way south of my location at 57.65N,12.02E and I'm in the Southern part of Sweden.
And I have been living in Kiruna, Sweden and found that it's cold as fsck but that it's not as bad as some people think because when the snow comes it gets brighter.
Re:Two timezones to the west - Alaska (Score:2)
Re:Two timezones to the west - Alaska (Score:2)
Alert, NWT for the win (82.30N, 62.20W) - I had two tours there while in the military. Enough so that I now consider Labrador, where I grew up, as being in the south (Only 52.90N)
Well, would farther south be better? Like here [wikipedia.org]?
Re:Two timezones to the west - Alaska (Score:4, Funny)
Kids these days.
When I was a lad, there were 75 of us living in a cardboard box 100 miles north of the north pole. We used to have to get up before the sun came up, which was harder in summer than winter, and lick the glaciers for water.
But you try to tell that to young people today, and they'll never believe you.....
Re:None of the above (Score:2)
30 years ago I made jokes about Club Frobisher. Frobisher Bay is in the Canadian arctic.
Re:None of the above (Score:3)
We have no Daylight Savings Time here, and I see no reason for DST's existence. Things work out just fine here.
I always liked the quote about cutting the end off of a blanket, sewing it to the other end of the blanket, and claiming to have improved it.
Re:None of the above (Score:4, Interesting)
Okay, I lied. That fact wasn't even slightly fun.
Re:None of the above (Score:2)
I want to live several timezones to the south! Oh, wait.
My sentiments entirely. A few hours flight south would be nice, especially during the winter months. We're much too close to the arctic circle for comfort (we're about 62.5N).
I live in the Southern hemisphere, you insensitive clod!
Re:None of the above (Score:2)
I wish I lived around 64N. Anyone here have any laus störf for programmers around that latitude? ;)
Re:None of the above (Score:2)
That would be traveling back in time... You can go back in time to life as it was 50 years ago - just travel down south.
Is it just me... (Score:3)
Re:Is it just me... (Score:3)
Are you missing Cowboy Neal? I am.
Re:Is it just me... (Score:3)
Re:Is it just me... (Score:3)
Really? I found something interesting :D
Even though most slashdotters are happy with their timezones, more people favor the west over the east. A possible reason: slashdotters commonly stay up late and some of them want a reasonable routine. To do so, they only have to move westwards a few hours. Convoluted, yeah, but plausible. ;)
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
Really? I found something interesting :D
Even though most slashdotters are happy with their timezones, more people favor the west over the east. A possible reason: slashdotters commonly stay up late and some of them want a reasonable routine. To do so, they only have to move westwards a few hours. Convoluted, yeah, but plausible. ;)
Another possible reason: some people will click on anything. The first four options make no sense. East of what? West of what? Those options do not mean anything. And yet almost a quarter of the voters pick one of those options.
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
East of where you live. Which is why I picked it- living in EST would make playing with stocks easier.
Festung Norwegen (Score:2)
Re:Festung Norwegen (Score:2)
I'd like to go to Norway and play a little game called "Spot The Swedes", a bit like mullet spotting but with a much higher degree of difficulty!
Re:Festung Norwegen (Score:2)
A bunch of Norwegians did that a thousand years or so ago - called the place Iceland. And some others (though mostly Swedes and Danes) went southwest and invaded Scotland, England, and Ireland. And then a century or two ago, other Norwegians thought moving south and west would be a good idea and went to Minnesota - nice warm weather, lots of farmland.
Re:Festung Norwegen (Score:2)
it's is called Socalism [...] indoctrated [...] discusting
So, from what you are saying, I presume you have had a truly capital-C Capitalist education?
Re:Festung Norwegen (Score:2)
And people with an education find it comforting.
Always west (Score:4, Insightful)
Slow Down The Earth (Score:4, Interesting)
I seem to live about 2 timezones west of where I am and I don't think moving would help. Mornings are just something I can't do.
I wish our earth would rotate slower. My personal day length is somewhere around 26 hours. I have experimentally verified it during long holidays (when I studied physics I used to have 3 months of summer holidays with enough funding and nothing to do), where my perceived day would rotate roughly one cycle in a fortnight.
When I talked to others I found that this is more os less the same for a lot of people. I wonder why we haven't managed to adapt to a 24 hour cycle. Or maybe we did adapt, but our no-longer-hunter-and-collector lifestyle makes us un-adapt.
Re:Slow Down The Earth (Score:3)
Red light at night (Score:3)
Sure it's not due to artificial light? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Humans [wikipedia.org]
I installed 'redshift' on my PC, which changes the gamma of the monitor to correspond to the sky. At and after sunset it's pretty red. I really like it, I don't feel I'm staring into a light bulb. Using the computer is now closer to reading a book in how awake I need to feel.
I also bought a red light bulb for my bedroom. Using that before I go to bed prevents the normal white light from waking me up.
Re:Slow Down The Earth (Score:3)
Sure it's not due to artificial light? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Humans [wikipedia.org]
You're probably right. That and coffee.
And a lack of social contacts. Did I mention that I am a physicist?
Just a few million years ahead of the rest of us (Score:4, Informative)
I wish our earth would rotate slower. My personal day length is somewhere around 26 hours.
Don't worry - you are probably just a few million years ahead of the rest of us. Thanks to tidal friction from the moon the earth's rotation is slowing. Days used to be several hours shorter and, in the future will be longer. The rate of increase of a solar day is currently about +1.70 ± 0.05 ms/century [wikipedia.org] which is slightly less than the +2.3ms/cy because the polar caps are still rebounding from the last ice age, shrinking the earth's equator and causing the Earth to spin a little faster due to conservation of angular momentum (the same way that ice skaters use to increase their spin rate by pulling in their arms and legs).
Assuming we maintain an average 2.3 ms/cy (the crust rebound time is only on the order of a few thousand years) in about 313 million years the earth will have a 26 hour day. So hang around for a bit and your problem will be solved!
Re:Always west (Score:2)
First off, this is yet another goofy poll that can be interpreted a number of different ways. That being said, I' thinking we need to be moved about two (or more) timezones *EAST*. That way when we crawl out of bed at a civilized hour (8:00 am or later) we're synchronized with those gawd-awful morning people we have to deal with who get up before sunrise and expect us to do the same.
Just remember: the early worm deserves the bird.
Cheers,
Dave
Re:Always west (Score:2)
Yes. The insane early morning people should move more west, and the late wakers should move more east. Create the full spectrum so that everyone wakes up at roughly the same time completely naturally. I realize that means some people are waking up in the middle of the night. Actually... I would be over in the area of waking up in the middle of the night, because I seem to sleep best in the middle of the day (or perhaps that's just because of the timezone I'm in...). Too bad I have to be awake and at work at 7am to 5pm these days >.<
That's not bad (Score:2)
Re:Always west (Score:2)
I live in NZ.... (Score:3)
Re:I live in NZ.... (Score:2)
That's why I chose "more than 2 timezones to the East"; because I'm NOT in NZ. Yet.
Half a zone (Score:2)
The time zone i live in (Northern Territory, Australia) is half an hour different from the next time zone to the east (and 1.5 hours from the next zone to the west), which is just plain silly. Either make it an hour different - which would bring it closer to local time in the territory capital, Darwin - or don't bother with a difference at all.
Re:Half a zone (Score:2)
It gets worse : Nepal has a UTC+05:45 timezone. WTF?
Half a zone is better than none... (Score:2)
Re:Half a zone (Score:2)
It's because they couldn't possibly allow the country to run on UTC+05:30 because that would be the same as India, but they still want to maximise overlap of business hours with India for practicality, and have the day roughly aligned with the sun. Politics as usual.
Re:Half a zone (Score:2)
There's a thin coastal strip in Australia that is a quarter hour out as well, but it is an informal time zone.
Re:Half a zone (Score:2)
The 3 people who live near the WA/SA border use their own timezone of 45 minutes behind you you guys. Confused the heck out of me as I was driving through, thought I must have been breaking the sound barrier for the last hundred miles.
Don't care (Score:2)
I really don't care. How's that for a complicated answer?
Longitude is irrelevant... (Score:2)
DST (Score:2)
Happy with my time zone (GMT -6:00), would be happier if I didn't live somewhere where there is Daylight's Savings Time. So not terribly happy about that.
Time is an illusion (Score:3)
In all seriousness, why does it matter. It's not like I get an extra hour in the day a +7 GMT then I do at +8 GMT. It's still 24 hours no matter where I am.
Re:Time is an illusion (Score:2)
time zones an illusion. But if we are experiencing only one dimension of a three dimensional "time scape" then it is certainly not an illusion.
Woah. Woah.
Please put down the Time Cube and back away from the keyboard.
back to West Oz (Score:2)
currently in cold NSW but wants to be in warm WA
My complicated answer (Score:2)
I live in Indiana, which sits firmly in the US central time zone, according to some scientists' editorials in our local paper, but is classified as US eastern time zone by our state government. Until a few years ago, we enjoyed not having to deal with the DST silliness, but our state government (much like our national government) decided that they represented businesses, not people (or maybe they decided businesses were people, but that fails because the businesses wouldn't have had as many votes for DST as the people had against DST). Of course, being a heartland (not very smart land), conservative state (even more so with gerrymandering of districts and restrictions of voting rights), we must like business over people, because we keep voting that way even when they take away our good manufacturing jobs and replace them with low paying service jobs. We must think that GOD wants it that way. It's OK to starve children to death as long as those unborn babies are protected.
Oh, wait! I guess the answer isn't that complicated. I live in the class war zone. ;-)
Re:My complicated answer (Score:2)
Indiana is the only state in the Great Lakes region that somehow manages to be part of the old South as well.
All of them (Score:2)
I would rather like on the ISS !
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Re:All of them (Score:2)
My "complicated" answer. (Score:3)
I would love to live somewhere that doesn't bother with daylight saving time.
What is this "time" entity of which you speak? (Score:2)
I will have heard of it yesterday, but not now.
GMT (Score:2)
Time would be constant, but schedules would shift.
I like my timezone (Mountain) (Score:2)
At noon the sun is pretty much directly overhead. Rises in the morning, sets at night. All good.
Now, if we can get rid of Daylight Savings Time, I'd be a happy camper.
One without DST (Score:3, Insightful)
Any location where I don't have to change my friggin clocks twice a year would be great.
Metric Time (Score:2)
I was going to write up a bunch of stuff about metric time and decided all I wanted to say was "metric time".
Metric Time.
If you want more information Google it.
Somewhere DST isn't observed (Score:2)
because DST is stupid.
Re:Somewhere DST isn't observed (Score:2)
...and where most people speak English.
Bring me back east. (Score:2)
I can't really game with them in the evenings. By the time I've gotten my kids to bed, it's midnight for my gaming buddies. It's hard to Skype with family when they get together, as they are usually going their separate ways by the time I get home from work. It doesn't help that all my favorite sports teams from the east play their games early in the morning. Nothing like rolling out of bed to try and groggily watch football on a Saturday morning because OSU is playing a noon-time game.
The worst, though, are the business calls. Because I still have an Eastern Time Zone area code on my cell phone, insurance companies, career sites, and the like (whose calls I actually do want to receive) tend to wake me and the baby with a phone call at 5 or 6 AM, attempting to catch me before I get to work. I've stopped answering these calls, as there is little guarantee that I will even produce complete sentences at that hour.
MST + (3 TZ to the West) = Hawaii (Score:2)
Island Time.
Zulu -10... It's Like Paradise (Score:2)
Eh brah, so get off your okole off MST, and go beach already.
Oblig. missing option complaint (Score:2)
Where is the "A Timezone that doesn't change twice a year" choice? That's the one for me... Enough of these sun games.
Living in the west (Score:2)
Having been born, raised, and lived all but a couple of years of my life in the Pacific time zone, one thing I find slightly weird when I visit places east of here is having to wait for those lazy western slobs to get up and get in to the office.
In a past life I got to the company's European head office in Brussels quite a bit, and worked with customers in places like London and Paris. Not only were we at the wrong end of an eight or nine hour time difference, many of the engineering types were rarely in the office much before noon, which made it impossible to talk to anybody before evening in Europe. I took lots of calls myself from desperate field people pleading "Is there anybody in Engineeering?"
...laura
Drifting west (Score:2)
I really just want to wake up an hour or so later every day, so I think drifting west would be the best way to go. Just each night while I sleep move over a time zone and slowly circle the globe. Plus, think of all the cool places you'd get to wake up
I think there was an xkcd about this once...
Silly question... (Score:2)
Crazy poll (Score:2)
This poll is not about timezones. It is about wanting to live somewhere other than where you currently live, but excluding any reference to living north or south of where you live. It is nonsensical. Why even mention timezones? I suppose just asking people where they'd rather live would require too many options.
Re:Crazy poll (Score:2)
Clearly you don't work for a company with offices/clients around the world. Being on the US west coast can be a problem with clients in Europe but a benefit for clients in Japan. Opposite is true for living on the East coast.
I guess it applies to gaming too for games that don't have enough players locally.
Re:Crazy poll (Score:2)
I'm on the west coast of the US and work for a Japanese company that has customers in Europe and the Middle East, and I don't care what time zone I'm in. I suppose I might care if I did live on the east coast, but that is not an option as long as I work for this company, so I did not consider it. Anyway, most communication is via email, not phone, so it's not a big deal.
I want to live in EST (Score:2)
All of them (Score:3)
Re:All of them (Score:2)
I like Mars time (Score:2)
I'm a fan of Mars time, which is to say, a day that's 39 1/2 minutes longer than these Earth days.
West, 1 & 1/3 time zones each day. Forever. (Score:2)
Stupid non-24.
Earth's most liveable city (Score:2)
says it all, though even we aren't immune to those living off the teat of advertising by preaching doom and gloom.
Never has there been anywhere more comfortable/indulgent to look forward to (increasing) retirement, nor to work on interesting stuff/making it even better unless you insist on relative poverty of those around you as your reward.
Though I really might appreciate the extra half hour on Mars.
one to the east...already (Score:2)
I already live one time zone to the east.
I live in west Michigan, which – according to longitude – should be in the Central time zone. But when they were establishing time zones, Detroit wanted to be in the same time zone as the east coast, and (most of) the rest of the state went along with it. I don't care for the reasons (I have no connection to the east coast, and not much more to Detroit), but I don't mind the result: it stays light later here and than it does in the rest of Eastern at this latitude. I was backpacking on Isle Royale – nearly 90W (halfway through what should be Central time) and 48N – around summer solstice, and the sun didn't even set until 10pm or so. Granted, being on Eastern time this far west (and north) makes for some dark winter mornings, but that's a fair trade for still having a little bit of daylight left when you get home from work that time of year.
Time zones are so last century. (Score:2)
We should all be on TAI.
In the 37 minutes 23 seconds... (Score:2)
I look forward... (Score:2)
Not too complicated (Score:2)
I just want a time zone that doesn't jump around twice a year. The moving of the clocks forwards and backwards is annoying.
Time zone is fine... (Score:2)
Just wish I lived a bit further south where it's warmer and rains less!
Re:I love my time zone! (Score:2)
+1 I guess.
CEST atm.
Re:I love my time zone! (Score:3)
If they only didn't have the daylight savings stuff added to it - it just makes things complicated during spring and fall.
Re:I love my time zone! (Score:3)
UTC makes my life easy!
No summertime or crap either, just smack on zero all the time :-)
Re:I love my time zone! (Score:2)
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Re:I love my time zone! (Score:2)
oh, and do you mean CET or CEST?
Re:gmt time zone it's the place to be (Score:2)
Re:gmt time zone it's the place to be (Score:2)
Flexitime (Score:2)
I don't especially care.
I need to be in work between 10-12h and 14-15h. Beyond that, it's up to me, so long as I work 37½ hours a week.
Whatever the time, I seem to arrive at work at about 10:05. They transition from summer time to normal time doesn't affect this. I leave around 18:05, with an appropriate lunch break.
In some ways I'd like us to be +1 hours, so there's more light in the evening, but I think it's unreasonable to expect everyone to change just because I can never manage to get in to work at 9.
Re:Dynamic zone (Score:2)
I prefer 28 hour days. I get four extra hours of spare time every day, and the week is only six days long!
Re:Dynamic zone (Score:2)
Or just move to the south pole where you can easily change timezones whenever you want.....
Re:Dynamic zone (Score:2)
Or just move to the south pole where you can easily change timezones whenever you want.....
Unless you need to interract with other people still on a 24 hours/day diet. Been there, done both (south pole [gdargaud.net] and the 28 hour attempt): it wasn't such a hot success.
Re:Any timezone but this one. (Score:2)
Agreed. As someone who often drives from WI up into the UP, that timezone shift has always baffled me. I mean, it would ~sorta~ make sense if at least all of the UP was in Central (to match WI), or all of it was in Eastern (to match the rest of MI). But nope, they just put some line randomly through the middle of the UP dividing GMT-5 and GMT-6...
Re:Time? (Score:2)
Here's the (obligatory) xkcd I was thinking of: Good Morning [xkcd.com]
Re:Timezone Nationalists / Eastern Standard Tribe (Score:2)
This is the story I thought of when I marked "my current timezone is where it's at." I'm already in Real Time!
Re:I live at Greenwich (Score:2)
Greenwich, CT? Of course. That's in EDT now.
Re:Iceland GMT (Score:2)
They need to keep the timekeeping simple in Iceland, because the fluctuation between 23-hour days and 23-hour nights over the course of the year makes it impossible to guess what time it is by whether it's light out or not. A nice place to visit in early July (speaking from experience), but I'm not sure I could handle late December.
Re:In my own timezone but... (Score:2)
You want western Ontario, just north of Minnesota. It's almost as far west as Mountain time, but still in the Eastern time zone. Or if you're stuck on the US, the UP of Michigan. Either one has late sunsets, and beautiful wilderness where you'll want to spend those daylight evening hours outdoors.