Your team, on one map, on their clock
Add the people you work with — colleagues, clients, freelancers, partners — by city, and see all of them on one map: their local time, whether they are at their desk right now, and when the whole group shares working hours. Each person's day comes from their country's real working week unless you set their hours yourself. Free, no sign-in; the team lives in the link.
0 of 4 at work right now
This is a worked example. — they are kept on this device and in the link.
How to use this
- Add each person by their city. Give them a name and a role — colleague, client, freelancer, partner — so the map reads as your team rather than as cities.
- Read the map. A filled pin is at their desk; a hollow one is not. Labels show each person's local time, and the dark half is tonight.
- Drag the slider to a time later today and watch who comes online. The overlap line at the bottom says when everyone, you included, is at work.
- Copy the link. It holds the whole team; open it tomorrow or send it to the person you are scheduling with.
Worth knowing: Up to eight people per team, one person per city.
Why a map of people, not a row of clocks
A world clock tells you it is 14:46 in Mumbai. It does not tell you that Priya finished forty minutes ago, that Dana in Austin has been at her desk since seven because you set her hours that way, or that it is Sunday in Riyadh and nobody there is working. Those are the facts a distributed team actually runs on, and every one of them is a question about a person's day, not a city's clock.
So this page draws people. Each pin is someone you named, coloured by what they are to you, filled while they are inside their working day and hollow when they are not. The working day comes from their country's real working week — the same working-hours dataset that powers every country page here, with a source for each figure — unless you know better and set it yourself. Behind the pins is the real night side of the planet, computed from the sun's position for the minute you are looking at, so the map also answers who is asleep without you reading a number.
Below the map the same engine as the meeting planner says when everyone, you included, shares working hours — and when nobody does, which window covers most of you and who would be taking the call outside their day. The country overlap pages hold the same arithmetic for any pair of countries; this is that arithmetic applied to your actual people.
Nothing here needs an account. The team is written into the address bar as you build it, in the same format the world clock's sibling, the Chrome extension, uses for its toolbar groups — so a team built in one place opens in the other. Copy the link and you have saved it; send it and you have shared it. If you are deciding where a remote hire could sit so that their day overlaps the team's, the base map shades the world by exactly that, and the time difference pages give the hour-by-hour picture for any two cities.
FAQ
How does it know whether someone is at their desk?
From their country's working week — start, end and rest days — for 55 countries, each with a source. A colleague in Oslo is on 08:00–16:00 Monday to Friday, a client in Riyadh on Sunday to Thursday. Where you know better, set the person's own hours and the map uses those instead. Where we hold no figure for a country the page says it is assuming nine to five rather than pretending to know.
What do the colours mean?
The role you gave the person: colleague, client, freelancer or partner. A filled pin is someone inside their working day right now; a hollow one is someone who is not. The dark half of the map is the real night side, computed from the sun's position, so you can also see who is asleep without reading a single number.
Can I look ahead?
Yes. The slider shifts the whole map up to twelve hours either way, and every pin, label and the overlap answer move with it. Drag to 15:00 your time and you see who will be at work then.
Where is my team stored?
In the link and on this device, nowhere else. Copy the link and the same team opens on any machine, or paste it to a colleague. There is no account yet, no server copy and no tracking of who is on your team. Saving a team to an email address, so it follows you and can be shared with edit rights, is the next thing we are building.
Is this the same as the Chrome extension?
Same people, same engine. The extension keeps the team in your toolbar and reads times in your inbox; this page is the big-screen view of the same team, and the extension's Open on usebasetime.com button lands here with your groups intact.