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Ask YC: What time zone are you in?

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Am I the only one to notice that responses here are not only related to the quality and interest of the content, but also to the time of day? Seems like a lot of activity while I sleep (U.S. Eastern Standard Time GMT-5). Maybe I need to shift my "hacker.news day". Where is everyone at?

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I am steadfastly in GMT. Wherever I go, my watch, phone and laptop remain in GMT. Even in the summer, in the UK, which goes to GMT+1, I stay in GMT.

What hours am I awake? Whatever hours are the most productive. If I have admin tasks then I'll be in daylight hours. Otherwise, I'm most productive doing extended stints.

I've noticed there is a large contingent of UK hackers on this forum. This could account for some activity outside of US office hours. The remainder is probably people doing irregular hours.

I was just thinking the same thing while responding to the bootstrapping thread which seems to have made it to the front page since I left work yesterday, with a ton of comments.

I'm right here with you at GMT-5.

GMT -8 (Pacific Time). I'm surprised that there aren't that many over here it seems.

I'm sure there are plenty but most are still in bed.

I'm PST, and I've been up for quite some time, but that was for the purpose of talking with JST.

Also Pacific Time. Give it a few hours and see them trickle in ;-)

Hehe. lazy Californians (myself included).

I'm here.

It's clear that the majority of YC hackers have been lucky enough to avoid Timezone coding -- otherwise you'd not consider "GMT-5" a timezone!

It's America/New_York, according to the Olson DB.

Pacific Time

http://www.kirubakaran.com/phr0zen has twice-a-day snapshots of Hacker News front page. May be that will help?

Nice hack. Thank you.

I'm in EST also. I notice there's a lot of stuff later on, but I always assumed that was because there were a plethora of night-owl hackers. :)

CET which is UTC+1

So do I.

same here

Alaska Standard Time -9 GMT

GMT+5.5 Bangalore, India

central America/Chicago

even though i live in milwaukee

GMT +1 (France)

GMT +3, Moscow

GMT - Ireland

GMT+5.5 India

GMT+2, SAST

GMT+2, EET

I'll double that. EET. Turku, Finland, to be more exact.

PST here.

GMT+2

GMT+8

GMT-6

GMT+1

UTC

IST

pacific time for me. daytime is reasonably active IME. at 2am, not so many people are on. that's no surprise: 2am my time means it's later for the rest of the US.

I'm timeless. (Really!)

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