Stop Doing Math Before Meetings: The Ultimate Guide to Managing Global Time Zones
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Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Buenos Aires is 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM in London.
Schedule calls for 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Buenos Aires — your colleagues in London will be online from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Because you share 6 hours of the workday, there's no need to compromise; book the time that suits the meeting, not the map. Finally, London observes daylight saving and Buenos Aires doesn't, so this window shifts by an hour for part of the year — recheck it each spring and autumn.
| 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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Buenos Aires America/Argentina/Buenos Aires | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
London Europe/London |
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