Best overlap: 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM in Colombo is 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Paris.
The sweet spot is 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM Colombo time, matching 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Paris. With 7 hours in common, treat scheduling almost as if the two cities were in the same region. Watch the DST gap — when Paris changes its clocks and Colombo stays the same, this window slides by an hour.
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