Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Riyadh is 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Sydney.
Schedule calls for 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Riyadh — your colleagues in Sydney will be online from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Around 3 hours of overlap is enough to work comfortably, as long as meetings don't drift to the end of one team's day. Keep an eye on the calendar — Sydney observes daylight saving and Riyadh doesn't, which nudges this window by an hour twice a year.
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