Thanks, David. I live not far from Austin, Texas, but I keep all my computer clocks set to GMT, which is close enough to the Netherlands.
But seeing the shadow move across the globe gives a better feel for how much time is available for a comfortable interface with the other guy across the globe. I hate to awaken him in the middle of the night. Regrettably, nowadays, many people use their smartphone for email and get a notification of incoming mail 24 hours a day. I am old enough to remember the time before the "smartphone" when a great advantage of email was that you could send or answer a message at your convenience -- even 3 am in the morning -- witn no need to worry about waking someone. My mail goes to my desktop machine; I try to check it once a day. And I am old enough to remember the day when, for the big city (urban Houston), the U.S. Post Office had morning and afternoon mail delivery. RLH
