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Once you click on meeting planner, you can enter the date and locations involved. For example, I am currently in S. Korea and I want to find a time that is compatible with the USA and Europe. “Enter Your Locations: First, you just plug in the cities for everyone involved.” Generate the Timetable: Hit the “Show Timetable” button, and TimeAndDate.com does all the heavy lifting. It creates a simple, easy-to-read table. Each row represents an hour, and each column is a different city.
There are lots of different tools to help you with time zones on this website, but the one I use the most is the meeting planner. It is free to use. You will see ads. To remove the ads and get a few other benefits you can pay $1-4/month. “Once you click on meeting planner, you can enter the date and locations involved.” Enter Your Locations: First, you just plug in the cities for everyone involved. For a meeting with our members, I enter my current location as Seoul, and then add cities like Los Angeles, Miami, London, and Berlin to cover the major time zones.
Enter Your Locations: First, you just plug in the cities for everyone involved. For a meeting with our members, I enter my current location as Seoul, and then add cities like Los Angeles, Miami, London, and Berlin to cover the major time zones. “Each row represents an hour, and each column is a different city.” Find the Sweet Spot: The magic is in the color coding. The planner uses a traffic light system to show you the best times: Green: The time is within standard 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. business hours. This is your jackpot. Yellow: The time is outside of normal work hours but still during waking hours. This is your compromise zone. Red: The time is when most people are likely to be asleep. Avoid these at all costs.
Generate the Timetable: Hit the “Show Timetable” button, and TimeAndDate.com does all the heavy lifting. It creates a simple, easy-to-read table. Each row represents an hour, and each column is a different city. “The planner uses a traffic light system to show you the best times:” With this table I can see at a glance that, if I was willing to host the meeting at midnight (00:00) that would work well for everyone else. But I’m not willing to do that, so what else do we have? 8am Sunday for me makes it 4pm Saturday for Los Angeles and 7pm Saturday for Miami, but way too late for Europe. Looking for the rows with the most green and yellow, my best option shows up in the last row. I could host the meeting 11pm at night. That doesn’t sound so great to me, but I’m sure grateful to TimeAndDate.com to save me all the time of figuring this out.
Find the Sweet Spot: The magic is in the color coding. The planner uses a traffic light system to show you the best times: Green: The time is within standard 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. business hours. This is your jackpot. Yellow: The time is outside of normal work hours but still during waking hours. This is your compromise zone. Red: The time is when most people are likely to be asleep. Avoid these at all costs. “Looking for the rows with the most green and yellow, my best option shows up in the last row.” Another Helpful Option: Google Calendar’s World Clock
Generate the Timetable: Hit the “Show Timetable” button, and TimeAndDate.com does all the heavy lifting. It creates a simple, easy-to-read table. Each row represents an hour, and each column is a different city. “Green: The time is within standard 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. business hours.” With this table I can see at a glance that, if I was willing to host the meeting at midnight (00:00) that would work well for everyone else. But I’m not willing to do that, so what else do we have? 8am Sunday for me makes it 4pm Saturday for Los Angeles and 7pm Saturday for Miami, but way too late for Europe. Looking for the rows with the most green and yellow, my best option shows up in the last row. I could host the meeting 11pm at night. That doesn’t sound so great to me, but I’m sure grateful to TimeAndDate.com to save me all the time of figuring this out.
Generate the Timetable: Hit the “Show Timetable” button, and TimeAndDate.com does all the heavy lifting. It creates a simple, easy-to-read table. Each row represents an hour, and each column is a different city. “Yellow: The time is outside of normal work hours but still during waking hours.” With this table I can see at a glance that, if I was willing to host the meeting at midnight (00:00) that would work well for everyone else. But I’m not willing to do that, so what else do we have? 8am Sunday for me makes it 4pm Saturday for Los Angeles and 7pm Saturday for Miami, but way too late for Europe. Looking for the rows with the most green and yellow, my best option shows up in the last row. I could host the meeting 11pm at night. That doesn’t sound so great to me, but I’m sure grateful to TimeAndDate.com to save me all the time of figuring this out.
Generate the Timetable: Hit the “Show Timetable” button, and TimeAndDate.com does all the heavy lifting. It creates a simple, easy-to-read table. Each row represents an hour, and each column is a different city. “Red: The time is when most people are likely to be asleep.” With this table I can see at a glance that, if I was willing to host the meeting at midnight (00:00) that would work well for everyone else. But I’m not willing to do that, so what else do we have? 8am Sunday for me makes it 4pm Saturday for Los Angeles and 7pm Saturday for Miami, but way too late for Europe. Looking for the rows with the most green and yellow, my best option shows up in the last row. I could host the meeting 11pm at night. That doesn’t sound so great to me, but I’m sure grateful to TimeAndDate.com to save me all the time of figuring this out.
Generate the Timetable: Hit the “Show Timetable” button, and TimeAndDate.com does all the heavy lifting. It creates a simple, easy-to-read table. Each row represents an hour, and each column is a different city. “Avoid these at all costs.” With this table I can see at a glance that, if I was willing to host the meeting at midnight (00:00) that would work well for everyone else. But I’m not willing to do that, so what else do we have? 8am Sunday for me makes it 4pm Saturday for Los Angeles and 7pm Saturday for Miami, but way too late for Europe. Looking for the rows with the most green and yellow, my best option shows up in the last row. I could host the meeting 11pm at night. That doesn’t sound so great to me, but I’m sure grateful to TimeAndDate.com to save me all the time of figuring this out.