Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in Toronto is 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM in Kolkata.
The best time to meet is 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM in Toronto, which is 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM in Kolkata. The shared window is only 1 hour — treat 8:00 AM in Toronto (5:30 PM in Kolkata) as the one fixed point and plan everything else around it. A quick caveat — Toronto's clocks move for daylight saving and Kolkata's don't, so the times here are right for only part of the year.
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