There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
Set against a 12.5-hour difference, Los Angeles and Bengaluru run their workdays on completely separate schedules. Block a single recurring off-hours slot that both teams agree on, rather than negotiating a new awkward time every week. For part of the year the maths changes: Los Angeles observes daylight saving, Bengaluru does not, shifting the overlap by an hour.
| Local time | 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
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Bengaluru Asia/Kolkata |
The Philippines sits 12 to 16 hours ahead of the US and never changes its clocks. Exact overlap windows for every US coast, the tomorrow problem, and a rotation rule that works for product and BPO teams. -
WorldTimeBuddy is a very good time converter. Timezoners is a shared overlap board for a team you meet with every week. An honest comparison of where each one wins. -
Most distributed teams either keep the daily standup and exclude someone, or kill it and lose the rhythm. There is a better third option. Here is how to redesign the daily standup so it works across nine time zones. -