Ask HN: Any good apps for time-zone syncing with remote colleagues?

#1

Post by halfimmortal » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 6:08 AM UTC

I'm a team lead in a 100% remote team and I have a ton of calls across 20+ timezones with customers, team members and partners. Been using worldtimebuddy.com for timezone syncing, but it's not perfect. I spend an average 10 mins scheduling a call, which adds up to a lot of time wasted. What time zone app or workflow do you use ?

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#2

Post by kkoppenhaver » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 9:15 AM UTC

I've heard good things about https://everytimezone.com/ previously (no affiliation).

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#3

Post by valand » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 10:39 AM UTC

Try this https://savvytime.com/

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#4

Post by afarrell » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 11:08 AM UTC

It is designed for a different use case than yours, but I used http://calendly.com/ for scheduling calls across time zones when I was doing job interviews and it worked well.

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#5

Post by dyeje » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 2:06 PM UTC

I use a combination of Slack and Gcal. Slack will tell you someone's local time. Gcal will show you when people's working hours are (if they're set) when trying to invite them.

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#6

Post by hotdox » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 9:26 PM UTC

https://spacetime.am/

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#7

Post by halfimmortal » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 7:18 AM UTC

afarrell wrote: post #4

It is designed for a different use case than yours, but I used http://calendly.com/ for scheduling calls across time zones when I was doing job interviews and it worked well.

Yeah, I tried it. I work 3 days a week from 9 to 5 and 2 days I'm available from 7am to 11pm. I can't seem to set up these kind of settings in Calendly. Is it possible?

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#8

Post by halfimmortal » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 7:21 AM UTC

dyeje wrote: post #5

I use a combination of Slack and Gcal. Slack will tell you someone's local time. Gcal will show you when people's working hours are (if they're set) when trying to invite them.

Yeah, most times those working hours in GCal are pretty outdated. Slack showing local time is meh. Prolly better if they show this person is 6 hours ahead of you or 4 hours behind you.

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#9

Post by halfimmortal » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 7:23 AM UTC

hotdox wrote: post #6

https://spacetime.am/

This is interesting, thanks for sharing!

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#10

Post by halfimmortal » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 7:24 AM UTC

valand wrote: post #3

Try this https://savvytime.com/

Thanks! Doesn't suit my needs though