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: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Geneva is 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Buenos Aires.
Keep meetings inside 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Geneva — that maps to 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is 4 hours behind Geneva, but the generous 6-hour window means both teams can meet well within their normal day. These times hold for most of the year, but Geneva's daylight saving (which Buenos Aires doesn't use) shifts them by an hour twice annually.
| 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 |
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. -