Booking a call for March? Mind the two odd weeks
Tuesday was a quiet shipping day for Time of Meeting: the only thing that went out was the blog story about Monday's new share picture. So today we're looking at something that's been on the site all along and quietly saves meetings: planning ahead.
The clocks don't change together
Every spring and autumn, the US and Europe change their clocks on different dates. This autumn Europe switched on October 25 and the US a week later, on November 1. If you had a New York and London call that week, you probably noticed.
Spring has a longer gap. In 2027, the US moves its clocks forward on March 14 and Europe follows on March 28. For those two weeks, New York is four hours behind London instead of the usual five. Your regular 2 p.m. London call starts at 10 a.m. in New York, not 9, and someone ends up sitting in an empty video room with their coffee.
Let the planner do the counting
Time of Meeting doesn't use today's offset for every date. Each city follows its own official time-zone rules for the day you're looking at, daylight saving included. So if you look at a meeting next month, you see next month's offset.
To get there, use the jump buttons. +1 Day and +1 Week move the timeline forward a day or a week at a time, and every city card shows its local time and date for that moment. Click a few weeks ahead into March and you'll see the hours shift by themselves when one side changes its clocks and the other hasn't yet. Snap to Now brings you back to today.
Once the time looks right, add it to Outlook, Google Calendar or Apple Calendar, or share a link that opens the same cities and time. The link holds only those details. Nothing is stored on a server.
Try it
Open Time of Meeting, add your cities, and jump ahead to the week of March 15. If the hours look different from usual, that's not a bug. That's the two odd weeks.