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@nathandyer Great post! I now feel for anyone living near a timezone boundary.

The big benefit of local time is that I get an intuition for what part of the day the other person is currently at. Is it lunch time or the middle of the night for the person I'm messaging?

Though maybe the local time intuition can be replaced with the knowledge of what UTC time "noon local" is for different parts of the world.