Best overlap: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Auckland is 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Shanghai.
The best time to meet is 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Auckland, which is 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Shanghai. You won't be short on options — 6 hours of overlap leaves space for recurring syncs and ad-hoc calls alike. One seasonal catch: Auckland springs forward and falls back, but Shanghai doesn't, so the gap changes by an hour for several months of the year.
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