"8AM to 12 PM" think you mean 12 AM unless you go to bed at lunch :)
If it's meant for Europeans just use 24h time. 00:00 to 8:00.
Are the Americans Awake?
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#12I feel that most are awake earlier than 8am. I sure don't want to be but jobs tend to force you up before then.
I agree that waking up early is annoying - I was a late riser myself preferring to wake up as late as 10/11AM when younger. After taking a job that required me to wake up at 5:30 in the morning I got used to waking early and started to enjoy it. The part that was beneficial was waking up on my own at 6:30-7AM on the weekends without an alarm and witnessing the quiet sun rise with birds chirping - it's very invigorating. Paired with some light morning exercise it has become a natural antidepressant for me. Now If I wake up past 8AM I feel like I wasted quality morning time.
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#13"8AM to 12 PM" think you mean 12 AM unless you go to bed at lunch :)
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#14I found Google extremely useful for timezone info. You can write something like "what time is it in Detroit, USA When it's 1pm in Sydney, Australia", or "what time is it now in Baghdad" and it will give you the correct answer. No need to be counting hours etc.
As for "are they awake". I'm not sure it is as useful as "are they off work now"?
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#15This site takes into account that Americans get there 8 hours of sleep though some quick googling revealed that the average American only gets 7 hours and 13 minutes of sleep. Just want to preach to those not getting there 8 hours, getting enough sleep really gives an enormous boost to mood, creativity, productivity and health. Give it a try :-)
I recently started sleeping more and the changes in my life have been unbelievable
I am
- procrastinating less
- having less headaches
- coming up with more creative solutions at work
- being more attentive and present in social interactions
- ACTUALLY FEELING HAPPY AGAIN
I don't know how much of this is placebo, but ever since the corona lockdown started here in Germany, my sleep has been completely messed up. For the last two years, I felt like a zombie, like I was kinda living my life but not really there. I came to a point where I said to myself "I can't remember the last time I was actually happy or enjoyed anything".
So I've been trying to take better care of my health and fitness overall, and sleeping better is one of the thibgs I started doing
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#16> I consider awake to mean from 8AM to 12PM, you are getting at least 8 hours of sleep, right?
I've seen IRC bots that monitor people's activity to guess at their availability/timezones.
After all, nobody would be on social media during work hours - right? :)
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Putin says so.
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#19I was so confused with the 8am to 12pm. You mean 8am to 12am :)
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#20I feel that most are awake earlier than 8am. I sure don't want to be but jobs tend to force you up before then.
Maybe it would be useful to use a bell curve for the population of a given time zone between say 5am and 11am, with the max around 8am. This would cover late sleepers and early risers (and people like myself who had to travel from one timezone to another for work and haven't adjusted).