Daylight Saving Time Is an Operations Problem in Disguise

Mar 28
1 min read

The hardest part of Daylight Saving Time isn't the lost hour.

It's that 195 countries just made a different decision about it.

Some changed. Some didn't. Some changed on different dates. Some are debating eliminating it entirely.

Now multiply that across a global team trying to schedule a Monday standup.

That's not a calendar problem. That's an operations problem.

Operations is the science of making coordination work at scale. Across time zones, systems, teams, and decisions that nobody fully controls.

Most companies underinvest in it until the chaos becomes undeniable.

What's the coordination problem quietly costing your team right now?

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