Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM in Houston is 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Edinburgh.
Your shared working hours run 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM in Houston (2:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Edinburgh). Edinburgh is 6 hours ahead of Houston. That leaves about 4 hours of common time — enough for a meeting or two, so use it deliberately.
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London to New York is five hours apart, except for the five weeks a year when it isn't. Exact overlap windows for every US zone, the 2026 DST mismatch dates, and where to put the recurring sync. -