There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
The 12.5-hour difference means Bengaluru and Los Angeles miss each other entirely during regular office hours. Where you can, lean on async updates and save live calls for when one team is happy to start early or stay late. Daylight saving complicates things slightly: Los Angeles observes it, Bengaluru doesn't, so the difference flexes by an hour part of the year.
| Local time | 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
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Los Angeles America/Los Angeles |
The Philippines sits 12 to 16 hours ahead of the US and never changes its clocks. Exact overlap windows for every US coast, the tomorrow problem, and a rotation rule that works for product and BPO teams. -
WorldTimeBuddy is a very good time converter. Timezoners is a shared overlap board for a team you meet with every week. An honest comparison of where each one wins. -
Most distributed teams either keep the daily standup and exclude someone, or kill it and lose the rhythm. There is a better third option. Here is how to redesign the daily standup so it works across nine time zones. -