Hello hunters, we’re excited to announce TimeZoneNinja, a free tool for scheduling calls across multiple time zones.
Have you ever been here? You need to set up an emergency meeting with a customer in Chicago, the dev team in Poland and your boss, who happens to be traveling in Asia. You Google your time zones, schedule the call and pat yourself on the back for handling it all so efficiently… until you realize you miscalculated and your company president is stuck on a 2am call.
The details may change, but for those of us who work with international teams, the realities are all too familiar. It happened to us too many times, so we decided to put an end to this. Enter TimeZoneNinja! Simply enter the date you want to meet and the locations of your participants, click “Find Best Ninja Time” and presto! It finds a meeting time that works for everyone.
Give our Ninja a try and see for yourself how painless international scheduling can be.
Tell us what you think!
@sgiraudie This has happened to me SO many times. Great work solving a super frustrating problem in an elegant way! Love the slider and the "Ninja Hour" feature to avoid "Insanity Hours". Also, ninjas.
@imakestrides : Happy to hear ;) try scheduling your next call on Voxeet. We have ninja 3D Immersive audio as well.
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If I'm choosing between Shift and TimeZoneNinja, why should I choose TimeZoneNinja? (and can you tell I love that name?)
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@raghum_ Sorry, I'm not familiar with Shift. What I can tell you is that we couldn't find anything quick and easy to use so we built our own timezone management tool.
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Does this tool take into account the different change points between summer time? For example the UK typically transitions 2 weeks later than the US.
@boagworld Hi Paul, yes it does. Internally it relies on the IANA Time Zone Database which "contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and daylight-saving rules" (taken from their website). Please make sure to tell us, should you find any edge case we're not dealing with properly.
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Great tool that I have already bookmarked on my browser. Would be great to get #TimeZoneNinja extensions for Safari, Chrome...and why not Apple Calendar? Thanks @Voxeet
@jagnola@voxeet : Thank you Jerome for the feedback. We started this as a side project but yes, would be great as an extension for major browsers and yes Apple Calendar ;)
@madiocci : Very happy to hear that ;) Very cool. We were feeling the pain ourselves so we decided to build it ;) You can also schedule your call via Voxeet and experience 3D audio in your next conference call. Don't forget to share feedback.
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Amazing! Scheduling 3-or-more time-zone conferences has always been a pain: (double)checking the time in each time zone, getting everybody ready at the right time, and spending the first useful minutes of the call to agree by email on the soft to be used for the call (and, once in a while, apologizing to the poor guy you woke up at 3 AM). Now the whole process is painlessly integrated and allows to concentrate on what really matters.
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@francois_dupont_metayer Thanks! Love to hear that we're not the only ones to experience this issue :)
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