Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in Manila is 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM in San Francisco.
Schedule calls for 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in Manila — your colleagues in San Francisco will be online from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM. With about 1 hour of common time, this pairing rewards planning — 8:00 AM in Manila / 5:00 PM in San Francisco is the slot to defend. Don't get caught out: San Francisco is the previous day from Manila, so "tomorrow" means different things to each team. Finally, San Francisco observes daylight saving and Manila doesn't, so this window shifts by an hour for part of the year — recheck it each spring and autumn.
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