Remote Team Time Zone Cheat Sheet
Use this as a quick planning reference, then confirm the exact date in the time zone converter because daylight saving rules change by location and season.
Good meeting windows
| Team mix | Usually workable window | Notes |
|---|
| India + US East | 6:30 PM-9:30 PM IST | Morning in New York, evening in India. |
| India + US West | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM IST | Harder overlap; rotate meeting pain fairly. |
| India + UK | 2:30 PM-7:00 PM IST | Strong overlap for product and support teams. |
| Dubai + Singapore | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM Dubai | Simple four-hour difference most of the year. |
Remote scheduling rules customers actually need
- Write meeting invites with city names, not only abbreviations. IST, CST, and BST are ambiguous globally.
- Use UTC for logs and deadlines; use local city time for humans.
- Rotate recurring meetings if one region is always outside work hours.
- Check daylight saving transitions before scheduling launches, interviews, and webinars.