Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in San Diego is 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Cape Town.
Shoot for 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in San Diego; your Cape Town colleagues will see that as 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM. The overlap barely stretches to 1 hour, so reserve it for what really needs a live conversation and handle the rest async. Don't be caught out by clock changes — San Diego observes daylight saving and Cape Town doesn't, so the offset varies by an hour through the year.
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