Time zone converter

How to use it

1. Choose the place whose time you know under "From".
2. Set the date and time. The date matters, because clocks change for summer in many countries.
3. Add one or more places. The result shows the time in each.
4. Use the planner table to find an hour that suits everyone, then copy the result or the link and send it.

Tips for fixing a meeting across countries

• Always write the time with the place: "6:30 pm India time", not only "6:30".
• Check the date as well as the time. Across the Pacific, the other person may be a day ahead or behind.
• Around March, April, October and November, look twice. Different countries change their clocks on different weekends.

What the result shows

The answer gives the time in every place you added, with the date, since the other place may be on the day before or the day after. The planner below it lists all 24 hours of the day in the first place against the same moments in the others. Hours that fall between 8 am and 9 pm in every place are coloured: pick one of those and nobody has to wake early or stay up late.

Things that trip people up

• A place that is not the capital. Large countries have several clocks. Choose the city nearest to the person, not the country.
• A date months away. The converter applies the rules for the date you enter. A meeting in July can be an hour different from the same meeting in January.
• 12 am and 12 pm. 12 am is midnight, the start of the day. 12 pm is noon. If in doubt, write "midnight" or "noon".
• A wrong clock on your own device. "Use the time now" reads your device. If its clock or its time zone setting is wrong, the starting point is wrong.

The converter uses the time zone rules built into your browser. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere.