Best overlap: 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Edinburgh is 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in New York.
Both offices are open during 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM Edinburgh time, which is 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in New York. You get roughly 5 hours of shared time, so aim for the middle of that window to keep the call comfortable for both teams.
| 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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London to New York is five hours apart, except for the five weeks a year when it isn't. Exact overlap windows for every US zone, the 2026 DST mismatch dates, and where to put the recurring sync. -
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Slack converts timestamps automatically and shows everyone's local time, but it can't fix a bare '3 PM' typed into a channel. The settings worth changing and the habits that do the rest. -