There is an easier solution. If everybody just works one hour a day, and we work it so that UK works 1800 till 1900, then Australia could work 0700 to 0800, and the EST folks in the US could work 2400 to 0100. That way we'd all be at work at the same time, so we could talk real time. Now what we need is some clever bugger to work out the times for the rest of the world, and someone else to work out a suitable time for Spaw.
John