Best overlap: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM in San Francisco is 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in Hong Kong.
Shoot for 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM in San Francisco; your Hong Kong colleagues will see that as 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. With only around 1 hour of shared time, be precise — book 5:00 PM in San Francisco (8:00 AM in Hong Kong) and you'll catch both teams. Remember Hong Kong is a day apart — the next day — so a late call for San Francisco could be the following morning there. Seasonal note: San Francisco uses daylight saving and Hong Kong doesn't, so double-check the times in your own months — they can move by an hour.
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