Best overlap: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Addis Ababa is 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Boston.
Your shared working hours run 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Addis Ababa (8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Boston). Boston is 7 hours behind Addis Ababa. That leaves about 3 hours of common time — enough for a meeting or two, so use it deliberately. Watch the DST gap — when Boston changes its clocks and Addis Ababa stays the same, this window slides by an hour.
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Long-distance relationships, parents working overseas, grandkids in Auckland and grandparents in London. The work guides do not really apply. Here is a practical playbook for keeping family relationships strong across time zones. -