Meeting time zone conversion can be confusing. Daylight Saving begins and ends on a wide variety of dates around the world. When attending a meeting based in a different time zone your local time for that meeting may change up to 4 times a year!
Example: you are in the southern hemisphere, attending a meeting based in the northern hemisphere, the meeting time changes 4 times throughout a year.
- when your time zone starts daylight saving
- when meeting time zone ends daylight saving
- when your time zone ends daylight saving
- when meeting time zone begins daylight saving
Australian Meeting Calendar
One feature of the upgraded Australian meeting calendar is that if you are in a different time zone to a meeting, the time is automatically converted to the time zone on your device.
This example shows this Perth Meeting in Sydney/Melbourne time. This meeting is at 7pm Perth time
Meeting Webpage
When a meeting is a different time zone to your device, the Meeting webpage will show the meeting time in both:
- the time zone on your device
- the time where the meeting is based, in brackets/parentheses. ( )
Time Zones in Emails
Some zoom meetings use email to communicate with new or regular members. Listing multiple time zones for a meeting may require regular updating throughout the year to remain accurate.
Using a link or a button, linked to your meeting page, provides the current time zone conversion for all. This should produce an accurate time zone conversion anywhere in the world, at any time of year.
Check your local time for this meeting
Resources
- Update meeting details on the Australian Meeting Calendar
- Add a new meeting to the Australian Meeting Calendar
- For other issues about the Australian Meeting Calendar email webmaster@slaa.org.au