Best overlap: 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM in Kolkata is 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Hong Kong.
Shoot for 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM in Kolkata; your Hong Kong colleagues will see that as 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Hong Kong is 2.5 hours ahead of Kolkata, but you'd hardly notice — 7 hours of shared hours makes this feel like working in neighbouring time zones.
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