There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
There's no shared 9-to-5 between Wellington and Manchester; at 13 hours apart, one city's workday is the other's evening or night. Your best bet is one team taking an early-morning or late-evening call — alternating who stretches keeps it fair over time.
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London to New York is five hours apart, except for the five weeks a year when it isn't. Exact overlap windows for every US zone, the 2026 DST mismatch dates, and where to put the recurring sync. -