The people turning time into a currency.

After spending 10 years as a Buddhist nun in Myanmar, Coral Sunone realised that she needed some fashion help when she returned to the outside world. But with money tight, getting assistance from a professional stylist was simply out of the question. Or was it? Coral, who is based in Malaysia, heard of a website called TimeRepublik, which describes itself as "a timebank for the internet era". Time banking is in essence a more sophisticated form of bartering. You don't pay someone in money for a job that they do for you. Instead you give that person time credits that they can then use to get a service without financial payment from someone else. Via the TimeRepublik website, Coral was able to connect with Cherish Cullison, a New York-based professional wardrobe stylist and...