Flutterby™! : Time is relative

I'm at work a little early this morning, because at the end of yesterdays long conference call/working sessions via skype yesterday, they said: Resume at 8am. Which would be 7am locally. It was said with great urgency and importance, so I believed them and did not apply the "Latin American Time Filter". It normally has a lot of variables, but I thought I was getting a handle on them. I was wrong, again.

Doing time math in computers is interesting enough, but adding social aspects for each culture is interesting. In the caribean it is often a logarithmic scale: In 5 minutes means an hour, this afternoon means tomorrow, next week means next month. There are adjustments for 2 to 3 hour lunches, the month of Christmas and New Years, and other people's vacations. Unless you are on a Dutch island, in which case being more than a minute early is rude, and exactly on schedule is perfect, most of the time. Fridays are often the start of the weekend.