Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Brisbane is 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in San Francisco.
For a call that suits both sides, look at 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Brisbane / 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in San Francisco. Around 3 hours of overlap is enough to work comfortably, as long as meetings don't drift to the end of one team's day. Be careful with invites: San Francisco is on the previous day, so a Monday meeting for Brisbane may land on a different day there. Because San Francisco and Brisbane don't both observe daylight saving, plan to re-check the overlap around March and November.
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