What time is it where you are?
January 26, 2008 by Jean Mercedes
Filed under Business
I must hear the phrase “What time is it where you are?” at least once a week. In my company of 600 people, we have offices in 3 continents and 9 time zones (including our two offshore teams, one in Bulgaria, the other in India).
Counting the hours between the time zones isn’t that difficult; it is usually daylight saving time or just the way we read the clock (time notation) which gets us mixed up.
Time zones
The concept of dividing the world up into 24 time zones, each exactly 15 degrees of latitude, was first proposed in 1879 by Sir Sanford …read more




