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Time zone scheduling

Team presets

Start from common remote-team patterns, then tune cities and date.

09:00–18:00 local workday · weekends flagged

Decision command center

From timezone conversion to a defensible meeting decision: recommended slot, tradeoff, poll, memo, calendar handoff.

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01 · Recommend

Score every candidate by overlap, local work hours, and visible burden.

02 · Explain

Show who pays the cost before the poll starts.

03 · Mitigate

Check DST and rotate recurring burden instead of repeating pain.

04 · Commit

Copy the poll, memo, or calendar invite with the rationale intact.

Best fair window

Thu, May 28, 04:30

Score 100/100Recommended

Why this window: Every city is inside weekday work hours.

all in work hours

Inside work hours

2/2

Inconvenient cities

0

Burden

low team burden

2 of 2 cities are inside 09:00–18:00. No city is pushed into off-hours.

Decision packet

Copy a decision-ready packet: poll language to align the team, memo language to record the call, and a calendar handoff that preserves the fairness rationale.

CommitCalendar inviteFairness note included
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Fairness timeline

Work hours, off-hours, and the chosen instant for every city.

Work hoursOff hours

Nanchang

GMT+8

0918
Work hours12:30

Singapore

GMT+8

0918
Work hours12:30

4-week recurring fairness

Who carries the recurring burden?

Nanchang carries the highest accumulated burden (0 pts / 0 conflicts). Singapore carries the lightest burden.

Total burden

0

Occurrences

4

WeekDecision reasonScore
W1Thu, May 28, 2026 · Every city is inside weekday work hours.100/100
W2Thu, Jun 4, 2026 · Every city is inside weekday work hours.100/100
W3Thu, Jun 11, 2026 · Every city is inside weekday work hours.100/100
W4Thu, Jun 18, 2026 · Every city is inside weekday work hours.100/100

Accumulated by city

Nanchang0 pts · 0x
Singapore0 pts · 0x

DST / offset watch

No UTC offset changes detected in the next 8 weeks for the selected cities.

Stable offsets

Week 1

NanchangGMT+8 · 12:30

SingaporeGMT+8 · 12:30

Week 2

NanchangGMT+8 · 12:30

SingaporeGMT+8 · 12:30

Week 3

NanchangGMT+8 · 12:30

SingaporeGMT+8 · 12:30

Week 4

NanchangGMT+8 · 12:30

SingaporeGMT+8 · 12:30

Burden rotation plan

Rotate the pain instead of repeating it

No better rotation was found than the fixed weekly time: the heaviest city still reaches 0 pts over 4 weeks. Use the fixed best window unless the team wants to alternate for etiquette.

Fixed max

0

Rotated max

0

WeekRotated slotScore
W1Thu, May 28, 2026 12:30 · Every city is inside weekday work hours.100/100
W2Thu, Jun 4, 2026 12:30 · Every city is inside weekday work hours.100/100
W3Thu, Jun 11, 2026 12:30 · Every city is inside weekday work hours.100/100
W4Thu, Jun 18, 2026 12:30 · Every city is inside weekday work hours.100/100

Rotated burden by city

Nanchang0 pts · 0x
Singapore0 pts · 0x

Use this when a fixed weekly slot keeps making the same office pay the night or early-morning cost.

Build rotation-aware invite

Send this fairness context into Calendar Link Builder so the invite note explains the recurring tradeoff.

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Selected citiesLocal timeWork hours
NanchangThu, May 28, 2026 12:30Work hours
SingaporeThu, May 28, 2026 12:30Work hours

Ready from compare

Ready from compare

This planner keeps the compared cities and fixed instant together, then turns them into a scored meeting window and a calendar invite.

Cities carried over

Nanchang ↔ Singapore

Selected instant

Thu, May 28, 2026 06:00

Asia/Shanghai

Best next window

Thu, May 28, 04:30 · Recommended · Score 100

Why this window: Every city is inside weekday work hours.

Share link

/meeting?at=2026-05-27T22%3A00%3A00.000Z&cities=nanchang%2Csingapore

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Next full overlap

from May 28, 01:00 AM

Current fit

60/100

Not recommended · high team burden

Nanchang is off hours at 06:00

Best candidate windows

09:00–18:00 local workday · weekends flagged

Thu, May 28, 04:30

Recommended · all in work hours

Score 100

Every city is inside weekday work hours.

all in work hours
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Thu, May 28, 05:00

Recommended · all in work hours

Score 100

Every city is inside weekday work hours.

all in work hours
Create calendar invite

Thu, May 28, 05:30

Recommended · all in work hours

Score 100

Every city is inside weekday work hours.

all in work hours
Create calendar invite

Selected cities

Nanchang

Asia/Shanghai

Off hours

Thu, May 28, 2026 06:00

UTC offset

GMT+8

Day relation

base city

Local date

Thu, May 28, 2026

/nanchang

Singapore

Asia/Singapore

Off hours

Thu, May 28, 2026 06:00

UTC offset

GMT+8

Day relation

same day

Local date

Thu, May 28, 2026

Calendar-safe handoff

Planning guide

Need a checklist before inviting the team? Read the timezone meeting planning guide for overlap windows, shared calendar links, and daylight-saving-safe scheduling.

Base timezone

The calendar handoff uses Asia/Shanghai as the base timezone. Keep the IANA zone with the invite so daylight saving changes are recalculated by the calendar, not guessed from a fixed offset.

Invite memo

Copy the meeting text before sending links. It gives attendees the local-time audit trail, offset labels, and work-hour warnings behind the selected instant.

Recurring meetings

For repeats, create the recurrence in your calendar with the same timezone and re-open this planner around DST boundaries to confirm the burden has not shifted unfairly.

Why teams switch

Not a timezone converter. A fair meeting decision engine.

Converters show clocks. Meeting Planner chooses the best window, explains who pays the inconvenience, rotates the burden over time, and hands off a calendar-safe invite.

Fairness + rotation + handoff

1. Fair decision

Pick the window that hurts the group least.

Compare candidate scores, see who falls outside working hours, and stop optimizing for only one office.

2. Recurring fairness

Rotate the pain instead of repeating it.

Plan a 4-week burden rotation so the same city does not keep paying the early-morning or late-night cost.

3. Actionable handoff

Turn the answer into something people can send.

Copy a team poll, share a prefilled link, or build a calendar-safe invite with named time zones and the checked date.

Quick answer

How to plan a fair, calendar-safe meeting across time zones

  1. 1. Choose citiesAdd every participant city or IANA time zone and set the real meeting date.
  2. 2. Compare fair scoreCheck which candidate windows balance normal working hours across the group.
  3. 3. Spot outside hoursSee who would be early, late, or on the wrong day before you confirm the time.
  4. 4. Copy or shareShare a prefilled planner link so teammates can review the same DST-aware view.
  5. 5. Create calendar inviteUse named time zones and the checked date to create a calendar-safe invite.

Scheduling FAQ

Time-zone meeting planner FAQ

How do I find a fair meeting time across time zones?

Choose the cities or IANA time zones, compare the fair score for candidate windows, then pick a time that keeps the burden away from the same participant every week.

What does the fair score show?

The fair score summarizes how well a proposed window fits local working hours across all selected cities, so you can quickly spot balanced times instead of optimizing for only one office.

How can I see who is outside working hours?

After selecting cities and a meeting date, review each local time row to identify participants who would be before or after normal working hours before you copy or send the invite.

Why do DST changes break recurring meetings?

Daylight saving time can change UTC offsets on different dates in different countries. Keep calendar invites tied to real IANA time zones, not fixed offsets, and re-check the meeting date.

Can I share a prefilled meeting planner link?

Yes. The planner accepts cities, time zone, and date query parameters for prefilled planning while the canonical page remains the clean /meeting URL.

How do I create a calendar-safe invite?

Copy the selected meeting details after checking the date, city list, and DST-aware local times, then create the calendar invite with named time zones so Google Calendar, Outlook, and ICS files do not drift.