Communication: Time Zones

There has been some early investigation into a potential application for the project: communication between time Zones as mentioned by previous discussion with potential users (group tutorial).

There are two potential context applications: personal and work.

The first one that i looked at was work, in particular the management of virtual teams. This article  describes the difficulties of managing individuals from different time zones. There are three main issues:

1. Not being aware of the issue and not taking notice of your own time zone
2. Consistency: Switching between time zones without 'signposting' the change
3. Not watching for daylight saving time

There are a number of tools available to deal with this problem: Time Trade and the time zone calculator