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: 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Buenos Aires is 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Portland.
Keep meetings inside 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Buenos Aires — that maps to 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Portland. You share roughly 5 hours a day. That's enough for regular meetings, but treat the window as prime time and guard it. Remember that Portland shifts for daylight saving and Buenos Aires doesn't, so recalculate the overlap after each clock change.
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Portland America/Los Angeles |
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. -