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 1:00 PM in Buenos Aires is 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Prague.
Target 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Buenos Aires, which lands at 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM for the Prague side. A 5-hour overlap gives you a workable daily window; aim for earlier in it to avoid clipping the end of someone's day. For part of the year the maths changes: Prague observes daylight saving, Buenos Aires does not, shifting the overlap by an hour.
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prague Europe/Prague |
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. -