Why are there less posters after 0200hrs?

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People seem to dissapear after 0200am? Ok, they maybe sleeping... But makes me think, as shouldn't then those from other countries then be posting instead and so on?

WP used to be fairly active during those times.

It is a bit past my bed time here in the UK, but I was puzzled....

I've noticed a big drop off from around 5 am our time. Probably related to the large numbers of members from the USA, that's getting into the early hours of the morning for them.

Interesting.

The UK is all in one time zone. The North Atlantic Ocean is about four time zones wide. And then the US is also four time zones wide.

So if its Five AM in Britain its five hours earlier here on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA in the Eastern Time Zone.

Midnight here in DC and in New York and Miami. And its Eight at night Pacific Time on the opposite coast.

So if its Five AM where you Brits are then most of your neigbors are asleep, and Americans are starting to go to bed in the Eastern and Central Time zones. So ….. yeah. The core of Anglosphere (the UK and North America combined) would be shutting down about that time. Makes sense that traffic on WP would also shut down since WP is dominated by the English speaking world.

Yup, time difference plays a big part. When it's 2 am there, it's 5 am here (assuming you're from the UK.) Plus there's the fact that some of us have jobs that have regular day shifts as well, so even if we wanted to be at our computers at 2 am, it's smarter to be sleeping.

Yes. Smarter to be sleeping! Haha. When I have been in work in the past, sleeping is something I find difficult... Well. Before about 2006 to 2007 when I first started to hit a type of burnout, I was ok with sleeping. But since then, and since I eventually hit burnout every time I was working in each job I took since those days... The actual hours I could cope with in a shift, and the number of days I could comfortably work were getting less ad less after each burnout was hit. I found the more I was pushing myself to work, the worst I was becoming. This seriously effected my sleeping patterns as the more I has struggled throughout the day, the longer I stayed awake in thought and could not get to sleep at night... So every day worked had less and less sleep and it all snowballed into a lack of sleep at night and a constant stream of partial shutdowns during the working day.