Best overlap: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Panama City is 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM in San Francisco.
Shoot for 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Panama City; your San Francisco colleagues will see that as 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. San Francisco is 2 hours behind Panama City, but with 8 hours of common ground you can hold morning or afternoon meetings without anyone working odd hours. Don't be caught out by clock changes — San Francisco observes daylight saving and Panama City doesn't, so the offset varies by an hour through the year.
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