Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in Boston is 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM in Chennai.
Schedule calls for 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in Boston — your colleagues in Chennai will be online from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Chennai is 9.5 hours ahead of Boston, so you only get about 1 hour of overlap a day — worth locking in a standing time like 8:00 AM in Boston (5:30 PM in Chennai) before it slips. Remember that Boston shifts for daylight saving and Chennai doesn't, so recalculate the overlap after each clock change.
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Long-distance relationships, parents working overseas, grandkids in Auckland and grandparents in London. The work guides do not really apply. Here is a practical playbook for keeping family relationships strong across time zones. -