Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM in Auckland is 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Caracas.
Shoot for 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM in Auckland; your Caracas colleagues will see that as 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Caracas is 16 hours behind Auckland. That's only 2 hours of overlap, so pair live calls with async follow-ups to make the most of it. Mind the calendar: when you pick a time, Caracas will be on the previous day compared with Auckland. For part of the year the maths changes: Auckland observes daylight saving, Caracas does not, shifting the overlap by an hour.
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