Best overlap: 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM in Geneva is 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Bengaluru.
Shoot for 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM in Geneva; your Bengaluru colleagues will see that as 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Bengaluru is 4.5 hours ahead of Geneva, so the practical overlap is about 5 hours — generous enough for meetings, tight enough to be worth booking ahead. For part of the year the maths changes: Geneva observes daylight saving, Bengaluru does not, shifting the overlap by an hour.
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