Do you often need to schedule international conference calls across multiple time zones? This is quite a headache and there are different tools that can help in various aspects. For example, there are the famous meeting planners that convert your time zone to the time zones in every location in which you have an attendee.

But there are more comprehensive solutions that can do all the time zone translations and also do the time finding job in one application. These applications are called the meeting wizards but the problem with most of them is that they don’t do a good job with time zones.

Here is what a good meeting wizard should do to support time zones well:

• Automatically detect the time zone of an attendee according to their IP address. Detecting according to the time on the machine is not always accurate
• Support time zones and Daylight Saving Time changes. Most of the meeting wizards only support time zones and do do the DST adjustments
• Always display time is the attendees local time zone and have a clear visual indications  that these are local times.

There is a great meeting wizard by ScheduleOnce that can do all the above. We have evaluated it and in our opinion it is the best tool for scheduling international conference calls. Do you know of other good wizards for scheduling conference calls? Drop us a line.

About Rami Goraly

Rami is a co-founder of ScheduleOnce and a seasoned high tech entrepreneur with more than 15 years experience in software, internet and SaaS companies.