The overlap is the meeting
A time zone converter will happily tell you that 9 a.m. in New York is 2 p.m. in London. Handy, if a fact was all you needed. Less handy if you were trying to find an hour that doesn’t ask someone to eat dinner at their desk, or to join before the kettle has boiled.
Time of Meeting is built around a simpler question: is there an hour inside work hours in every city?
When every row turns green
Add the cities. Drag the cyan line, or scroll. Each city shows its local time and date at that moment, coloured so you don’t have to do the maths:
- Green: work hours, 9:00–17:00 local time
- Orange: early or late, 7:00–9:00 and 17:00–19:00
- Red with stripes: night, better left alone
- Amber: a bank closing day
When every city is green, you’ve found the overlap. That’s the meeting.
The city-pair pages spell it out as well. London and New York share three work hours most of the year: 14:00–17:00 in London, which is 09:00–12:00 in New York. Los Angeles and New York share five: 09:00–14:00 in Los Angeles, 12:00–17:00 in New York.
And when there isn’t one?
Some combinations of cities won’t give you a shared 9-to-5 hour, no matter how long you drag the line. The homepage is honest about that: see the overlap, or the fairest time when there isn’t one.
You can still pick an early-or-late slot rather than a night one, add the meeting to Outlook, Google Calendar or Apple Calendar, or share a link that opens the same cities and time. The link holds only those details. Nothing is stored on a server.
Work hours are 9:00–17:00 local time in every city, for now. You can’t change them yet.
Try it
Open London to New York and look at the three shared work hours. Or start from Time of Meeting, add your own cities, and drag until the greens line up.