HourSwift

Time Zone Converter

What time is it over there?

Enter a time and your source zone — get every target zone at a glance, a 24-hour comparison, and the overlap that works for everyone.

Convert a time

Auto-updates as you type. DST is handled for you.

Find a meeting time

Add each participant's time zone and work window — HourSwift finds the longest overlap in the next 3 days.

Participants

Work start and end are local hours (0–24). Leave bright or set overnight past-midnight windows.

24-hour comparison

Each source hour against every target zone. The highlighted row is the current source hour.

Time zone basics

How does daylight saving time affect a conversion?

When the US and Europe switch on different dates, a fixed numeric offset gives wrong answers for weeks. HourSwift reads today's real offset for each zone, so the gap between New York and London is 5 hours in winter and 4 hours in summer, exactly as it should be.

Why is the time different for places at the same offset?

Same UTC offset still means different civil time because of DST timing. For example, distant zones can share an offset but change clocks on different days. Always convert by place, not by offset alone.

What is the best overlap for a US–Europe meeting?

With US East Coast at UTC-5 in winter, the shared window is typically 15:00–18:00 in Paris (morning on the US side) or 08:00–10:00 in New York (afternoon in Europe). The planner above computes this exactly for your participants.

Does this tool send my times anywhere?

No. Everything runs entirely in your browser — your dates, zones and work windows never leave the page. There is no server and nothing is stored.