Find the Best Time for an International Conference Call
Suppose you're located in Seattle, and you need to set up a phone meeting with folks in both Hong Kong and London. Unless you have an encyclopedic knowledge of time zones, you'll probably need some help figuring out the best time to accommodate everyone on the call. There are any number of online tools and international clocks you can refer to, I've got a new option that makes scheduling easy.
Every Time Zone displays a dozen representative time zones around the world, with your time at the top of the screen, in a draggable marker. You can move your time marker to the left of right to change the time, and you can simultaneously see the local time in every zone around the world.
The site also works offline, so you can copy the link to an iPad, for example, and use it for reference even in the absence of a Wi-Fi signal.
This site is well-designed, but tantalizingly incomplete. Despite the name, it only shows half of the world's time zones, so you have to do some extrapolation for the missing ones in between. And the page isn't configurable; I'd love to be able to filter out the time zones I never need, to make it easier to compare only the locales I need. Quibbles aside, this is a clever and useful time zone calculator for your meeting planning needs.
Photo courtesy Flickr user leoplus
