Stop Doing Math Before Meetings: The Ultimate Guide to Managing Global Time Zones
Mental gymnastics to figure out what time it is in Tokyo? You're doing it wrong. Here's why your team needs a visual time zone board, not a calculator. -
Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Berlin is 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Dubai.
Keep meetings inside 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Berlin — that maps to 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Dubai. Because you share 8 hours of the workday, there's no need to compromise; book the time that suits the meeting, not the map. Keep an eye on the calendar — Berlin observes daylight saving and Dubai doesn't, which nudges this window by an hour twice a year.
| Local time | 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
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Dubai Asia/Dubai |
Mental gymnastics to figure out what time it is in Tokyo? You're doing it wrong. Here's why your team needs a visual time zone board, not a calculator. -
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WorldTimeBuddy is a very good time converter. Timezoners is a shared overlap board for a team you meet with every week. An honest comparison of where each one wins. -