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 São Paulo is 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Seattle.
Aim for 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM São Paulo time — that's 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM over in Seattle. Seattle is 4 hours behind São Paulo, but the generous 6-hour window means both teams can meet well within their normal day. Remember that Seattle shifts for daylight saving and São Paulo doesn't, so recalculate the overlap after each clock change.
| 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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São Paulo America/Sao Paulo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seattle America/Los Angeles |
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. -