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

4 points by halfimmortal ↗ HN
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 ?

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Yeah, most times those working hours in GCal are pretty outdated.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