Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Rio de Janeiro is 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Cape Town.
Schedule calls for 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Rio de Janeiro — your colleagues in Cape Town will be online from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Around 5 hours of overlap is enough to work comfortably, as long as meetings don't drift to the end of one team's day.
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