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I always just basically ignore TZs and always use UTC when communicating with my international team. Only using a single timezone for everything simplifies things a lot.



How do you handle DST? That's the only wrinkle I can see, recurring meetings changing time based on the season. With location-specific meetings, we've been lucky so far and all countries involved switched to DST at around the same time.


No Daylight Saving Time in UTC

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is not used for UTC as it is a time standard for all time zones

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc


That's exactly the issue -- you want your local meeting at a particular local time, and if you schedule it in UTC, the meeting shifts by an hour twice a year.


this isn't a solvable problem with a sufficiently dispersed group. not even all US states observe DST, let alone all the countries in the world. you can't set a recurring meeting that will always be at the same local time for everyone.




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