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. -
There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
The 13-hour difference means Dubai and Anchorage miss each other entirely during regular office hours. Where you can, lean on async updates and save live calls for when one team is happy to start early or stay late. For part of the year the maths changes: Anchorage observes daylight saving, Dubai 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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Anchorage America/Anchorage |
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. -