Raleigh and New York share the same timezone year-round. When it's 12:00 PM in New York, it's also 12:00 PM in Raleigh. Both cities observe DST on the same schedule.
Both cities use Eastern Time (EST/EDT, UTC-5/-4). North Carolina is one of the Eastern timezone states.
Any time works! Business hours are identical. The 1.5-hour flight makes same-day business trips convenient. JetBlue and American operate frequent flights.
Raleigh is part of the Research Triangle (with Durham and Chapel Hill), home to Duke, NC State, and UNC, plus major tech companies including Cisco, IBM, and Red Hat.