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 4:00 PM in Milan is 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Dubai.
The best time to meet is 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Milan, which is 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Dubai. Dubai is 2 hours ahead of Milan, yet you get a full 8 hours of shared hours — enough to schedule around lunches, focus time, and preferences with ease. One seasonal catch: Milan springs forward and falls back, but Dubai doesn't, so the gap changes by an hour for several months of the year.
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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. -