adding TIME ZONE with profile!

Question

bb 
Hi, 
Hope you're well enough. I'm going to write this post to make a ''suggestion'' to keep the forum more productive! Sometimes, we be excited after making a post or comment(s) to have the reply from our honorable expert or study buddy in this forum, but we don't know when the expert will be available to the forum. In short, it would be better if we know the TIME ZONE (IST, GMT, ET and so on) of the expected expert or study buddy! Admin can add one more item to the individual profile. Here is a screenshot to understand issue easily. Thanks to everyone.

bb · Answer

Thank you for the suggestion. Interesting idea. 
I think the location sort of addresses this question and the question of a time zone but a number of experts have sort of unusual schedules - e.g. they reply on their way to work or late night. However, I am happy to hear more input and opinions how this may be better!

P.S. For anyone looking to get a reply from an expert, my suggestion for the experts to reply is always to post specific and short questions. I would suggest not to include too much details that really don't matter. Many reply on their phones now and when I get a long question with lots of details, I can't really reply on the phone and often don't end up replying at all. Posting a well-research short question is always much more effective!

TheUltimateWinner · Answer

Yes, I understand what you mean, actually, but in the Looking for Study Buddy thread if you send a private message to the study partner s/he will ask a question to you like ''what is your time zone buddy?'' at first. So, time zone is matter. If you keep an item like time zone with individual profile, the buddy won't ask what is your time zone buddy?.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/looking-for- ... 48276.html

kungfury42 · Answer

I think one useful thing here could be to instead add an "active time" feature. An "active time" is not based on your location, but can be selected to reflect what time you are most active on the forum. For example, I can select 4PM to 6PM Pacific Time as my "active time" on the forum. This is a good way to take care of the privacy part too

As this way I don't have to reveal my physical location / timezone. 4PM to 6PM Pacific Time could mean 7PM to 9PM Eastern Time or 11PM to 1AM GMT or 9AM to 11AM Canberra Time, nobody would know. For the expert reply, a feature "typically replies in xxx" can be added where an expert can replace xxx by the amount of time it would typically take for them to reply to any query based on their current bandwidth. This will give the help seeker a fair idea of the expected wait time and be patient in their follow-ups with the experts. Posted from my mobile device

adding TIME ZONE with profile!

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