Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Geneva is 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Cape Town.
The best time to meet is 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Geneva, which is 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Cape Town. Plenty of room to work with: 9 hours of daily overlap means you can prioritise people's preferences over the clock. Note the seasonal wrinkle: when Geneva is on daylight saving and Cape Town isn't, the gap between them grows or shrinks by an hour.
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