Cape Town is 9 hours ahead of Los Angeles. Put the other way round: Los Angeles is 9 hours behind Cape Town.
Los Angeles is UTC-7 in summer and UTC-8 in winter; Cape Town is UTC+2 and UTC+2.
A nine-to-five in Los Angeles and a nine-to-five in Cape Town do not overlap at all. Somebody has to move: the nearest workable slots are early morning in one city or late evening in the other, which is the kind of thing the planner is for.
Los Angeles changes its clocks for summer and Cape Town does not, so there is no single answer: the gap is 9 hours for the northern summer and 10 hours for the rest of the year.
| Los Angeles | Cape Town |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | 17:00 |
| 09:00 | 18:00 |
| 10:00 | 19:00 |
| 11:00 | 20:00 |
| 12:00 | 21:00 |
| 13:00 | 22:00 |
| 14:00 | 23:00 |
| 15:00 | 00:00 next day |
| 16:00 | 01:00 next day |
| 17:00 | 02:00 next day |
| 18:00 | 03:00 next day |
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