There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
Jakarta is 11 hours ahead of New York, so their typical working days don't line up at all. Plan on one side joining outside normal hours. A recurring slot that trades off between early mornings and late evenings usually works best. Watch the DST gap — when New York changes its clocks and Jakarta stays the same, this window slides 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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New York America/New York | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jakarta Asia/Jakarta |
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