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

[halfimmortal]

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 ?

[halfimmortal]

Just came across this app called Clocker and started using it. It's really good and suits my workflow! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111?mt=12

[afarrell]

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.

[halfimmortal]

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?

[dyeje]

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.

[halfimmortal]

Yeah, most times those working hours in GCal are pretty outdated.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.

[kkoppenhaver]

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

[halfimmortal]

Thanks! Doesn't suit my needs though

[valand]

Try this https://savvytime.com/

[halfimmortal]

Thanks! Doesn't suit my needs though

[hotdox]

https://spacetime.am/

[halfimmortal]

This is interesting, thanks for sharing!