🌎Managing time zone differences between participants
Ensure people are connected with colleagues in "compatible" timezones!
You can ensure that all participants in your program are matched by default with people in compatible timezones (see "Define a matching rule in your program"), or leave it up to your participants to indicate this constraint as a preference (see "Invite participants to indicate their preferred timezones to be matched accordingly").
OPTION 1 • Define a matching rule in your program
Open the Members section, select the Categories tab.
Create a category called "Timezone" with the "Number" type.
Update your member list, by indicating the right timezone for each member (from -12 to 14).
In the "Matchmaking" section of your program, select your algorithm (except "Randomly")
Add an optimization matching rule to optimize the matching based on timezones, by selecting "Timezone", and "is the closest":
-> With this method, all participants to this program will be matched with colleagues in "compatible" timezones (if these values are indicated for each member).
OPTION 2 • Invite participants to indicate their preferred timezones to be matched accordingly
Open the Members section, select the Categories tab.
Create a category called "Timezone" with the "Multiple choice" type.
Enter the timezones as category values:
GMT-12:00 — Baker Island Time
GMT-11:00 — Niue Time, Samoa Standard Time
GMT-10:00 — Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, Tahiti Time
GMT-09:30 — Marquesas Islands Time
GMT-09:00 — Alaska Standard Time, Gambier Island Time
GMT-08:00 — Pacific Standard Time, Clipperton Island Time
GMT-07:00 — Mountain Standard Time
GMT-06:00 — Central Standard Time
GMT-05:00 — Eastern Standard Time
GMT-04:00 — Atlantic Standard Time, Eastern Caribbean Time
GMT-03:30 — Newfoundland Standard Time
GMT-03:00 — Argentina Time, Brazil Time, French Guiana Time, Uruguay Time
GMT-02:00 — South Georgia/Sandwich Islands Time
GMT-01:00 — Azores Standard Time, Cape Verde Time
GMT+00:00 — Greenwich Mean Time, Coordinated Universal Time, Western European Time
GMT+01:00 — Central European Time, West Africa Time
GMT+02:00 — Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time
GMT+03:00 — Moscow Standard Time, East Africa Time, Arabian Standard Time
GMT+03:30 — Iran Standard Time
GMT+04:00 — Gulf Standard Time, Samara Standard Time
GMT+04:30 — Afghanistan Time
GMT+05:00 — Pakistan Standard Time, Yekaterinburg Standard Time
GMT+05:30 — Indian Standard Time, Sri Lanka Time
GMT+05:45 — Nepal Time
GMT+06:00 — Bangladesh Standard Time, Bhutan Time, Omsk Standard Time
GMT+06:30 — Cocos Islands Time, Myanmar Time
GMT+07:00 — Indochina Time, Krasnoyarsk Standard Time
GMT+08:00 — China Standard Time, Australian Western Standard Time, Irkutsk Standard Time
GMT+08:45 — Australian Central Western Standard Time
GMT+09:00 — Japan Standard Time, Korea Standard Time, Chita Standard Time
GMT+09:30 — Australian Central Standard Time
GMT+10:00 — Australian Eastern Standard Time, Vladivostok Standard Time
GMT+10:30 — Lord Howe Standard Time
GMT+11:00 — Solomon Islands Time, Magadan Standard Time
GMT+12:00 — Fiji Time, Kamchatka Standard Time, New Zealand Standard Time
GMT+12:45 — Chatham Islands Time
GMT+13:00 — Tonga Time, Phoenix Islands Time
GMT+14:00 — Line Islands Time
Update your member list, by indicating the right timezone for each member.
Invite your participants to access their Member Portal (https://app.random-coffee.com/login) and to indicate their preferences in the "My preferences" section:
Note that by selecting their preferred timezones, members will be able to see how many people match this preference thanks to the indication at the bottom right of the screen (in the example above: 156 members).
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