Thanks guys, very helpful!

Kind Regards,

Jochen Daum

Chief Automation Officer
Automatem Ltd

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Phill Coxon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 15:18 +1300, Jochen Daum wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> for the non-native english speakers here, how do you arrange for a
>> time or make time suggestions with people in other time zones? I can
>> always send a meeting invite, but what if I want to use a time more
>> casually?
>>
>> I've tried
>>
>> 2pm your time
>> 2pm your time/ 4pm our time
>> 4pm NZDT
>> 2pm/4pm
>
> Hmmm.  To provide a better answer to your specific question I use:
>
> 2pm NZT / 8pm EST
>
> Clients always know their own timezone.
>
> When-ever I'm sending emails I always be sure to specify what time I'm
> referring to:
>
> "I'll get to that task tomorrow morning at 9am (my time)"
>
> ...or...
>
> "Are you free to meet tomorrow at 5pm (your time - EST)?".
>
> I've discovered a lot of Americans have trouble converting their local
> times to NZT which sometimes resulted in phone calls in the middle of
> the night (arrrgh).
>
> So now I'm always very specific and have had no problems since I started
> that.
>
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