Best overlap: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Nairobi is 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in New York.
Both teams are at their desks between 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Nairobi and 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in New York. With about 3 hours of overlap, there's comfortable room for a daily stand-up — 3:00 PM in Nairobi / 8:00 AM in New York works well. Note the seasonal wrinkle: when New York is on daylight saving and Nairobi isn't, the gap between them grows or shrinks by an hour.
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