Best overlap: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Austin is 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Auckland.
Shoot for 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Austin; your Auckland colleagues will see that as 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Auckland is 17 hours ahead of Austin, so the practical overlap is about 3 hours — generous enough for meetings, tight enough to be worth booking ahead. The date rolls over between them: Auckland is on the next day relative to Austin during these hours.
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