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: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Buenos Aires is 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Washington, D.C..
Keep meetings inside 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Buenos Aires — that maps to 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Washington, D.C.. With 9 hours of daily overlap, these two cities are an easy pairing; almost any reasonable hour works. Remember that Washington, D.C. 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington, D.C. America/New York |
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. -