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 Seattle is 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Lima.
Shoot for 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Seattle; your Lima colleagues will see that as 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Lima is 2 hours ahead of Seattle, but with 8 hours of common ground you can hold morning or afternoon meetings without anyone working odd hours. For part of the year the maths changes: Seattle observes daylight saving, Lima does not, shifting the overlap by an hour.
| 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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Seattle America/Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lima America/Lima |
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. -