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 Rome.
Buenos Aires and Rome overlap from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM (Buenos Aires) to the equivalent 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Rome — that's your meeting window. The shared window is roughly 5 hours; treat its midpoint as the default and you'll keep both teams happy. One seasonal catch: Rome springs forward and falls back, but Buenos Aires doesn't, so the gap changes by an hour for several months of the 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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Buenos Aires America/Argentina/Buenos Aires | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rome Europe/Rome |
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. -