Time Zone Differences

Any kind of communication in Internet almost always runs into time zone differences between parties. Offshore programming is not an exception. Your programmer could be from virtually anywhere - from Philippines, or Russia, Eastern Europe, India. Is it a drawback or a benefit depends on how you organize your work. Of course this circumstance lowers the chances of your online chat meeting. On the other hand you can use such a trick - send a task for tomorrow to the consultant just before you leave the office. In the morning you will get the work done ! However this is very depend on the accuracy and self-management of the developer.

Check out what is the time for your consultant: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/