What time is it at your recipient's?
Your contact's local time and the window when everyone is working.
Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid and Brussels are all on the same time; Lisbon sits one hour behind, while Toronto lags six hours behind Brussels for most of the year. This live table displays the local time in each of the seven Faxeroo countries, marks which offices are open (roughly 9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday) and calculates the day's shared window.
Live office times
| Country | Country time | Open | Shared slot (local time) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | — | — | — |
| Canada | — | — | — |
| France | — | — | — |
| Germany | — | — | — |
| Italy | — | — | — |
| Portugal | — | — | — |
| Spain | — | — | — |
The best shared slot of the day
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Times are shown as a guide: 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, excluding public holidays. The system automatically manages daylight saving transitions.
Six time zones for Canada
Toronto serves as the reference in the table. Depending on the province, the lead on Brussels is four and a half hours in Newfoundland and nine hours in British Columbia.
- Pacific Time: Vancouver—
- Mountain Time: Edmonton—
- Central Time: Winnipeg—
- Eastern Time: Toronto, Ottawa—
- Atlantic Time: Halifax—
- Newfoundland Time: St. John's—
Choosing the time of your send
A fax travels in one or two minutes, night or day. What the time changes is the fate of the paper that came out of the machine: left on an empty desk on Friday evening, it will spend the weekend under other sheets. Aiming for the recipient's office hours maximises the likelihood of same-day reading.
From Brussels or Liège, five of the other six destinations live on the same time, or one hour apart. Canada is the odd one out: when Toronto shows 9 am, Europe is closing its day, and British Columbia is living three hours earlier. The time changes, for their part, blur the picture: the two sides of the Atlantic do not switch to summer time on the same weekend — in March, for a fortnight, then at the end of October for a week, the gap narrows by an hour.
The table draws on the official IANA time zones your browser maintains, recalculating each day the overlap window between 9 am and 5 pm shared by all seven countries. Opening hours differ from one organisation to another: a court registry, a health insurer or a pharmacy lists its own slots on its website — worth checking when the fax must go out urgently.
Time zones and hours: frequently asked questions
- Can a fax be sent outside office hours?
- Yes. Faxeroo sends sheets at any time, and the receiving machine picks up the page without any third party seeing it. Office hours merely show when a reader is likely to open it.
- What is the shared slot between Europe and Canada?
- Assuming both sides keep 9-to-5 office hours, you get almost two hours together: Toronto's morning from 9 to 11 corresponds to Brussels' afternoon from 3 to 5. Further west there is no window at all; when the working day starts in Vancouver, Belgian clocks show 6 pm.
- Must public holidays be considered?
- No. Each country, and sometimes each region or province, has its own calendar. The table only accounts for working days: check the local calendar before any important send.
Countries covered
This topic
- Countries covered
- Dial code +32 — Nine digits with a leading 0, spaces allowed; a mobile number in 04xx has ten
- Dial code +49 — Following the initial 0, there are 6 to 11 additional digits: an area code of 2 to 5 digits, then the subscriber number. Mobile prefixes comprise 015, 016 and 017.
- Dial code +34 — An 8 or a 9 opens a landline, which runs to nine digits with the province code; a leading 6 or 7 marks a mobile
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