Another day, another planet
Jan. 19th, 2010 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysFor most practical purposes, New Zealand is a country confined to one time zone. Nevertheless, most people in business are used to dealing with the time difference issue as this country is very much an international trader. It is just part of the business landscape.
Why then is it so irritating that Auckland appears to live in a different time zone to the rest of the country? Not an actual time zone, just a different work set of work habits that have the same effect. Most of the country likes to run to a start early + finish early pattern. It gives you time to do stuff in the evening. In Auckland, people tend to start later and finish later. Why is that? It can't just be the traffic.
Yeah, yeah, I know that it is a generalisation and that there will be exceptions both in and out of Auckland. However, it does seem to be a real thing at a broad level of approximation. I'm just curious to know if this sort of same zone variation happens elsewhere.
Why then is it so irritating that Auckland appears to live in a different time zone to the rest of the country? Not an actual time zone, just a different work set of work habits that have the same effect. Most of the country likes to run to a start early + finish early pattern. It gives you time to do stuff in the evening. In Auckland, people tend to start later and finish later. Why is that? It can't just be the traffic.
Yeah, yeah, I know that it is a generalisation and that there will be exceptions both in and out of Auckland. However, it does seem to be a real thing at a broad level of approximation. I'm just curious to know if this sort of same zone variation happens elsewhere.