Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Austin is 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Johannesburg.
Your shared working hours run 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Austin (3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Johannesburg). Johannesburg is 7 hours ahead of Austin. That leaves about 3 hours of common time — enough for a meeting or two, so use it deliberately. Heads up: because Austin changes its clocks and Johannesburg doesn't, the difference moves by an hour twice a year. Confirm the overlap around the DST switch.
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