Your subject, a video call, and a learner in another country

Your own day, reaching three school days

Kenya keeps East African Time all year and moves its clocks for nothing. A learner abroad finishes school in the late afternoon wherever they are, and because those afternoons fall at different points in your day, one Kenyan working day touches three of them in turn.

One Kenyan day, three school runs

1. Late morning to early afternoon

   South East Asia is finishing school. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur run five hours ahead of you and western Indonesia four, so their evening lessons land inside your working day.

2. Late afternoon into early evening

   The Gulf is finishing school. Riyadh keeps your exact clock, and the states that run ahead run one hour ahead at most, so a Gulf evening and a Kenyan evening are close to the same hours.

3. Evening into the night

   Britain is finishing school. London runs two hours behind you in the British summer and three in the British winter, which puts a British after-school lesson in your evening.

Britain is the only one of the three that moves, by a single hour, between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October. Kenya never moves, so the shift comes entirely from their side and your own timetable stays where you put it.