Shanghai is 13 hours ahead of Dallas

There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.

For Dallas and Shanghai, the standard workday in one city falls outside office hours in the other — that's what 13 hours of distance does. Keep live syncs short and infrequent, and let written updates carry the day-to-day between Dallas and Shanghai. Watch the DST gap — when Dallas changes its clocks and Shanghai stays the same, this window slides by an hour.