Daylight Saving Time just began here in the Eastern Time Zone. We’re all tired from losing an hour of sleep, and just adjusting to the change. But...
1. Do you know when Daylight Saving Time starts in France?
2. Do you know how many hours India is ahead of Eastern Time?
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So, what if you want to call home while you're in France or India on vacation or for business? Or when you’re in the office here, maybe you want to schedule a phone meeting with your colleagues or customers there. How would you know what time would work? Some people just look in their colleague’s calendar and schedule for a time that’s not marked as busy, but is that really a good time for the person?
I worked in international business for years, and came to rely on timeanddate.com to help me schedule even the most complex meetings, across multiple time zones. Go to the International Meeting Planner in the Time Zones menu. Enter the date of the meeting, and the cities. The timetable displays the best times in green, bad times in red, and “maybe" times in yellow. Then contact your colleague.
Keep in mind that some times may be in tomorrow’s date. For example, when I had phone meetings with a colleague in Tokyo, it was 9PM here, and 10AM there, the next day.
When you work in an organization that deals with colleagues, customers, or suppliers across time zones every day, you should internalize what time it is there, so you can plan what to do when during the day. My editing team in Oregon was 3 hours behind my day. So I could spend the morning replying to email from their previous afternoon, and sending them files they’d start working on later (my afternoon/their morning). In a French company, you have to make any phone calls during our morning, especially if you need to order supplies, because the French office is 6 hours ahead…most of the time!
1. March 31, 2019.
2. Nine and a half hours, during Eastern Daylight Saving Time; DST is not used in India.