Ask HN: People who work different timezones than your company. How sched?

Never work with teams to the west because they will always schedule meetings for what they think is mid-morning and it's lunchtime where you are.

If you're that set on a fixed lunch schedule put a calendar block for it and don't feel bad for telling people you have a conflict at that time. If they ignore/don't care about that then the real problem is shitty coworkers/company (possibly against the law depending on location), not clueless accidents.

Something I've learned with eating + time zones is "find out when people actually eat, not what time you'd be eating if your clock was changed too". Apart from cultural differences you easily conclude lunch is "sometime between 11:00 and 2:00" just by surveying ones neighbors. Add in a few hour time difference and suddenly it's impossible to schedule a meeting unless you guess, learn, or see it on their calendar when scheduling.

I prefer working with teams to the west, I'm a night owl, so I can start my day at 11 am.