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Timekeeping Briefs

Original editorial notes on public time standards, practical scheduling, and timezone awareness.

How Distributed Teams Avoid DST Surprises

Published: February 18, 2026

Operational teams can prevent daylight-saving confusion by storing schedules in UTC and exposing local conversions only in user-facing interfaces.

Why IANA Names Beat Abbreviations

Published: December 9, 2025

Abbreviations like EST and CST are ambiguous. IANA names such as America/New_York remove ambiguity and should be the default in software.