{"id":274,"date":"2008-10-30T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-10-30T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T11:14:51","slug":"arrange-a-meeting-in-multiple-timezones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/30\/arrange-a-meeting-in-multiple-timezones\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrange a meeting in multiple timezones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people are using Yahoo&#8217;s Upcoming more and more these days, going by the invites I get (many have switched from using Facebook to using Upcoming recently). But it completely sucks for arranging anything in a foreign country, or where people will be attending from foreign locations. Common examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any meeting, event, or party at an international conference; many attendees will be flying in a day or so beforehand\n<li>Conference calls with people in more than one timezone; conference calls tend to be with multi-timezone, otherwise you&#8217;d just have a face-to-face meeting\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried lots of things, and although Outlook 2003 and beyond have some moderately handy tools for this (you can view &#8220;2 timezones simultaneously&#8221;, although IIRC *only* 2, sigh), 99% of the time I need something web-based that anyone\/everyone can use. And today I found this piece of awesomeness:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/advmeeting.html\">http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/advmeeting.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which produces things like this:<\/p>\n<p>(I would insert an image here, but unfortunately &#8211; despite the claims of the Debian maintainer of WordPress &#8211; Debian WordPress still can&#8217;t do file uploads, and WordPress&#8217;s authors haven&#8217;t fixed their extremely poor approach to file uploads. Sigh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people are using Yahoo&#8217;s Upcoming more and more these days, going by the invites I get (many have switched from using Facebook to using Upcoming recently). But it completely sucks for arranging anything in a foreign country, or where people will be attending from foreign locations. Common examples: Any meeting, event, or party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}