If you wish to set up an appointment to talk to someone via Skype, how do you express the time? For example, if you were in Boston, currently observing Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and planned to talk to someone in Peru who is observing Peru Time (PET), would you say "Let's talk at 16:00 EDT" or "Let's talk at 15:00 PET" or "Let's talk at 16:00 EDT = 15:00 PET?"
Hello, with my "language partners", and italki teachers, I just say,"my time",your time".And obviously I first find in the web the official time in his-her place.And I always make sure to wrrite it down,and also PM or AM.
I get up very early in the morning to speak with students in Asia.
When it is 6 AM in Denver, Colorado USA, it is 8 PM in China, so I have gotten up as early as 2:00 AM to give several hours of lessons.
Oh and just so its clear. I use their city name+time. Not the time-zone name (whatever that's called)
example:
"Ok, I'll meet you 20.00 Moscow Time"
or
"See you at 19h Paris Time"
Hope that helps
As a courtesy I usually communicate the time in my partner's time zone, and they do the same for me. I know Moscow is +11 hours of my local time and Paris is +9 hours so its not difficult to figure out.
I recommend this site for finding out time zone differences <a href="http://time.is/compare">http://time.is/compare</a>;
Dan,
I generally know the time in the countries I work most often with. It's really not big a deal and come naturally.
If you want to skype with people I al;so stick to my time/your time. So if THIS time is good, it's probably good the next time too.
It would take me a long time work out a GMT+7 18:00 though.
