See what time it is in several cities at once, and find the slot where nobody has to take the call at midnight.
Open the time zone converter →Time zones look like arithmetic and behave like politics. Three things regularly catch people out:
| City | Winter (UK on GMT) | Summer (UK on BST) |
|---|---|---|
| New York | −5 | −5 |
| Los Angeles | −8 | −8 |
| Berlin / Paris | +1 | +1 |
| Dubai | +4 | +3 |
| Mumbai | +5:30 | +4:30 |
| Singapore | +8 | +7 |
| Tokyo | +9 | +8 |
| Sydney | +11 | +9 |
Offsets to places without daylight saving change when your clocks move, not theirs. That is why a fixed weekly call with Dubai or Mumbai drifts by an hour twice a year.
"3pm" is ambiguous. "15:00 London (UTC+1)" is not. Better still, give two or three local times explicitly.
Between late March and late October the UK is on British Summer Time, which is UTC+1. An invitation saying "10am GMT" sent in July is usually an hour off from what the sender meant.
London–San Francisco has one comfortable window: 16:00–18:00 UK, which is 08:00–10:00 Pacific. London–Sydney has almost none; someone is going early or late. Knowing that in advance lets you rotate who takes the awkward slot rather than always defaulting to the same person.
Recurring meetings scheduled in a fixed local time silently move for everyone else on clock-change weekends. Late March, late October, early March and early November are worth a diary check.
Your own zone is read from your device's clock settings, which never leaves the browser. The cities you add are stored locally. Palarid has no server-side record of any of it.
For scheduling purposes yes, but they are different things. UTC is an atomic time standard maintained internationally. GMT is a time zone that happens to sit at UTC+0 in winter. The UK is not on GMT for roughly seven months of the year.
Most of Asia and Africa, all of India and China, Japan, Arizona, Hawaii, and Queensland and Western Australia. Russia abolished it in 2014.
Nepal is UTC+5:45 and the Chatham Islands UTC+12:45. Time zones are set by governments, not geometry, and some chose to differentiate from a large neighbour.
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