Entrepreneurs feel time zones complicate scheduling
12 posts across 11 communities in the last 60 days; 17% from GitHub.
“Screen / Area: System settings Severity: Major Problem Finding A significantly different timezone is selected for Working Hours without explaining how it affects dates, deadlines, and working day calculations. User Impact Users may experience incorrect working days, deadlines…”
“Please confirm: [x] I have searched existing feature requests (open and closed) and found no duplicates. [x] Me or my organization is currently an active sponsor of the product at the $99, level. Problem Statement Currently the only way to view or change a tenant's default…”
“1 PM instead of 20. [re: Company is all-in on LLMs, and now I finally see where the worry is coming from]”
Business owners working with international clients find that differing time zones create confusion and errors in scheduling recurring calls, requiring manual adjustments.
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“1 PM instead of 20. [re: Company is all-in on LLMs, and now I finally see where the worry is coming from]”
“Stop making the same teammates join calls at 11 PM. Global Meeting Scheduler rotates recurring Outlook meeting times so time-zone pain is shared fairly across geographically dispersed teams. Try the open beta: https://tzplanner-outlookaddin.mjfnet.com/ #MeetingFatigue #GlobalTeams submitted by /u/mjfusa [link] [comments]”
“I work remote, travel across time zones a lot, and have friends that live in a few different time zones. Coordination across time zones just plain sucks. I don't care if the sun is up between 02:00 - 15:00 and I have to work 04:00 - 12:00 at my specific locale. People will adjust. The state that I live in used to have a time zone border on a river, which split two cities. When the bars closed at 1AM in one city they'd get in their cars and drive a few minutes to the next city so they'”
“Yes and no. There’s a spectrum with trade offs where sometimes it makes more sense to pay more for somebody who’s in your own time zone. Otherwise, those jobs would all be remote in the first place. So some of the formerly H1B exclusive jobs will get shipped overseas for sure, but others will go to Americans. [re: Microsoft suspended from H1-B program]”
“have you checked whether the date/time you're selecting is actually in the future? ive seen platforms default to the wrong timezone and then treat it as a past date, which sometimes just leaves it sitting as unpublished”
“Yeesh. I've been using the table for 5 years.. so far it's escalated to the dev team and they are looking into it..”
“This is handy. Time-zone mistakes are so easy when scheduling across teams. A small thing that’d help me is showing the date rollover clearly, not just the hour. Nice work.”
“Yeah, this is an easy one to set too. Unless there’s a big time zone gap, like west to east coast and that’s why you do 7am. Same time zone? Nah, no meetings before 9, easy”
East coast to japan = 13 hours behind. 7P us eastern was 8A japan.
“Mountain time vs Swiss time. 8 hrs. Feel bad for our coworkers out there as they are the ones getting shat on. Often they have meetings with us from 6-10pm their time.”
“UTC -4 to UTC +10. We would pretty much touch base at the start and end of each of our days.”
“I’m based in the UK, have offices/teams in; Sydney, Shenzhen, Bangalore, Novi Sad, Grenoble, East Coast, Nashville, West Coast…. You can go around the world in a whole day”
Me right now, spanish based in KL supporting UE and Latam (14h difference)
“Screen / Area: System settings Severity: Major Problem Finding A significantly different timezone is selected for Working Hours without explaining how it affects dates, deadlines, and working day calculations. User Impact Users may experience incorrect working days, deadlines, notifications, or timesheet dates if the timezone difference is unintended. Recommendation Use the system timezone as the default for Working Hours. If a different timezone is selected, display the time difference and expl”
“Please confirm: [x] I have searched existing feature requests (open and closed) and found no duplicates. [x] Me or my organization is currently an active sponsor of the product at the $99, level. Problem Statement Currently the only way to view or change a tenant's default timezone in CIPP is through the TenantDefaultTimezone standard, which is designed to continuously enforce and drift correct a single value via a Standards Template. Benefits for MSPs Since we support tenants located in differe”
“Two different things got tangled here. The imposter feeling did not cost you this one. A timezone did. That is a calendar bug, and it is the only part of this with a fix you can apply this afternoon. Use a booking tool that renders the time in their zone, and make the confirmation spell out both zones with the date written in words rather than numbers. Thick skin comes with reps and you will get those either way. The calendar thing keeps charging you until you fix it once.”
“Time zone stuff catches everyone who works across them. Watch the two weeks in march and november when the US and EU move their clocks on different dates, every recurring call I had was an hour out and I found out by sitting in an empty room. Everything gets booked off an invite now, never a time typed into a message.”