Best overlap: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Abu Dhabi is 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Edinburgh.
For the smoothest call, aim inside 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Abu Dhabi, i.e. 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Edinburgh. The overlap is wide at 6 hours, so you can protect mornings for deep work and still find plenty of meeting time. Daylight saving complicates things slightly: Edinburgh observes it, Abu Dhabi doesn't, so the difference flexes by an hour part of the year.
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