What time is it at your recipient's?
Your contact's local time and the window when everyone is working.
Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Madrid and Rome show the same time; Lisbon is one hour behind, Toronto six behind Brussels for most of the year. This live table shows the time in the seven countries covered by Faxeroo, flags offices that are open (9 am – 5 pm on weekdays, approximate) and calculates the day's shared slot.
Live office times
| Country | Country time | Open | Shared slot (local time) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | — | — | — |
| Canada | — | — | — |
| France | — | — | — |
| Germany | — | — | — |
| Italy | — | — | — |
| Portugal | — | — | — |
| Spain | — | — | — |
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Times given as a guide: 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays. Summer and winter time changes are handled automatically.
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.
As its base, the table reads the official IANA time zones kept up to date by your browser, and recalculates each day the window in which all seven countries work together between 9 am and 5 pm. Real hours change from one organisation to another: a court registry, a health insurer or a pharmacy displays its slots on its site — worth checking when the send is urgent.
Time zones and hours: frequently asked questions
- Can a fax be sent outside office hours?
- Yes. Faxeroo transmits night and day, and the recipient's machine takes the page without a witness. Office hours only indicate when a human will read it.
- What is the shared slot between Europe and Canada?
- On office hours of 9 am to 5 pm, that slot approaches two hours: 3 pm to 5 pm in Brussels, that is 9 am to 11 am in Toronto. Western Canada has none: 9 am in Vancouver is 6 pm in Belgium.
- Do public holidays need to be taken into account?
- 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 — Each number starts with 0, then carries between 6 and 11 digits (a 2- to 5-digit area code plus the subscriber number); 015, 016 and 017 are mobile prefixes
- Dial code +34 — Nine digits starting with 8 or 9, province included; a 6 or 7 at the start indicates a mobile number
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