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 1:00 PM in Portland is 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Buenos Aires.
For the smoothest call, aim inside 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Portland, i.e. 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Buenos Aires. A 5-hour overlap gives you a workable daily window; aim for earlier in it to avoid clipping the end of someone's day. Note that Portland follows daylight saving while Buenos Aires stays put, so the times above drift by an hour seasonally.
| 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. -