Best overlap: 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Kolkata is 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM in Edinburgh.
Shoot for 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Kolkata; your Edinburgh colleagues will see that as 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Edinburgh is 5.5 hours behind Kolkata, so the practical overlap is about 4 hours — generous enough for meetings, tight enough to be worth booking ahead. Seasonal note: Edinburgh uses daylight saving and Kolkata doesn't, so double-check the times in your own months — they can move by an hour.
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