International Meeting Time
Find the overlap of two teams' working hours across zones.
About International Meeting Time
Each team's working window is shifted into your time zone and the overlap between the two ranges is returned. Distributed teams can shrink to almost no shared hours, so finding the intersection protects both workdays.
Formula
International Meeting Time
Convert their working hours to your zone, then take the intersection of both ranges
- overlap
- Shared working hours when both teams are online
Worked example
With the default values below, International Meeting Time returns Overlap of 7.00. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Your work startaccepts 0–23
- 9
- Your work endaccepts 0–23
- 17
- Their work startaccepts 0–23
- 8
- Their work endaccepts 0–23
- 16
- Your UTC offsetaccepts -12–14
- 0
- Their UTC offsetaccepts -12–14
- 2
Results
- Overlap
- 7.00 h
- Best Start (your time)
- 10.0 hr
- Best End (your time)
- 17.0 hr
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2International Meeting Time
- 3Overlap= 7.00 h
- 4Best Start (your time)= 10.0 hr
- 5Best End (your time)= 17.0 hr
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 6 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is International Meeting Time calculated?
Convert their working hours to your zone, then take the intersection of both ranges Each team's working window is shifted into your time zone and the overlap between the two ranges is returned.
Why does International Meeting Time matter?
Distributed teams can shrink to almost no shared hours, so finding the intersection protects both workdays.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 6 inputs: Your work start, Your work end, Their work start, Their work end, Your UTC offset, Their UTC offset. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.