Best overlap: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM in Manchester is 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Chennai.
The hours that work for both Manchester and Chennai are 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM (Manchester) and 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM (Chennai). With about 4 hours of overlap, there's comfortable room for a daily stand-up — 8:30 AM in Manchester / 2:00 PM in Chennai works well. One seasonal catch: Manchester springs forward and falls back, but Chennai doesn't, so the gap changes by an hour for several months of the year.
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. -