Hi so I’ve recently got a mail from my first client ever to schedule a meeting for ” 1:00 pm (GMT+2)” Im from india and the client is from Switzerland. So is meeting supposed to be at 1:00 pm according to my time zone or what?
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They are saying that they mean the local time of Switzerland.
Since most people don’t know all the timezones of all the places in the world off the top of their head, thy wrote this as GMT+2
GMT+2 means that it is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
Switzerland uses CET (Central European Time) which is 1 hour ahead of GMT in the winter and two during the summer.
All you need to know is what timezone you are in and you can figure out the difference between you and any other timezone given in this format by simple math.
India is GMT +5½. Most place have a full hour offset from GMT but India is one of the exception and is 5 hours and 30 minutes out.
so since 2 – 5.5 is -3.5 you know that your clock will display a time three and a half hours before the same time gets displayed on a clock in Switzerland.
So the meeting is at 16:30 for you.
There are lots of helpful website that can convert it for you and even google will calculate times to your local time if you search in the right format.
If your email is properly configured it will also convert invites to meeting automatically to your local time.
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