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. -
There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
A 12-hour difference puts Tokyo and Buenos Aires out of sync — when one team is mid-morning, the other is fast asleep. Consider rotating the inconvenience: one week Tokyo takes the early call, the next week Buenos Aires does.
| 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. -
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