Best overlap: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Boston is 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Austin.
Schedule calls for 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Boston — your colleagues in Austin will be online from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Austin is 1 hour behind Boston, but you still share a generous 9 hours of overlap, so scheduling is easy and there's room to move a meeting when you need to.
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