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My thoughts exactly. I live on the western coast of the US in California and I have friends in both Australia and the UK. It's an -8:00 hour time difference from here to the UK and a +6:00 hour difference the other way to Australia. It's really not so unheard of in this day and age to have contact on a global scale with the click of a button and bridge the 14 hours as if we were all in the same room together.