Best overlap: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Bucharest is 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM in Austin.
Schedule calls for 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Bucharest — your colleagues in Austin will be online from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Austin is 8 hours behind Bucharest, so you only get about 2 hours of overlap a day — worth locking in a standing time like 4:00 PM in Bucharest (8:00 AM in Austin) before it slips.
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