Best overlap: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Lagos is 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM in San Francisco.
Schedule calls for 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Lagos — your colleagues in San Francisco will be online from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. San Francisco is 8 hours behind Lagos, so you only get about 2 hours of overlap a day — worth locking in a standing time like 4:00 PM in Lagos (8:00 AM in San Francisco) before it slips. These times hold for most of the year, but San Francisco's daylight saving (which Lagos doesn't use) shifts them by an hour twice annually.
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