If someone sends me a "good morning" message because it's morning where they are, but it's night where I am, how should I respond? "Good morning to you, too"? "Good night from [wherever I am]"? Or just stick with something time-neutral like "hello"?
My girlfriend has a difficult past:
She was married when she was 16 (she comes from a Muslim-Asian country) to a man that she didn't love and she had a baby.
She ran away with another man that she fell in love with to a European country. And thus, left her baby and her family for good.
Then her ...
That time-specific greeting question triggered me a bit. I have some people I email with to set up appointments and such for zoom a few timezones away, and they persistently use the wrong timezone abbreviation, like "PST" when it's really PDT. I kind of just let it go and try to be general like "Pacific time" so we don't get snarled up but after spending the last few years battling times in a data logging app it drives me mildly crazy.
I don't expect any answers to this, just needed to vent a little.
@DaveG What you're doing is probably already your solution. Switch the abbreviation out for something that's less ambiguous. Abbreviations can be a kind of semantic noise, and getting that out of your communication is an art (or a skill :P)
If someone sends me a "good morning" message because it's morning where they are, but it's night where I am, how should I respond? "Good morning to you, too"? "Good night from [wherever I am]"? Or just stick with something time-neutral like "hello"?
