October Roundup: Handle daylight saving time, manage multiple time zones with ease

October Roundup: Handle daylight saving time, manage multiple time zones with ease

Last updated Nov 26, 2024

The shift to daylight saving time in many countries means shifting clocks and more complicated scheduling considerations. Don’t worry: Teamup’s here to take out the manual work and handle those DST calculations for you. Learn more about the powerful built-in features Teamup offers for easy scheduling across multiple time zones, at any time of year. Get power tips and printables and see a few of our user feedback favorites for October.


1. Highlight: Handling daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (DST) is the practice of moving clocks forward to make the most of natural light during warmer months. While the time shift is only one hour, it can bring unexpected challenges. It’s especially frustrating for folks who are working or connecting across different time zones. We’ve rounded up the top 5 DST challenges and some practical ways to handle them easily and keep your scheduling smooth.

Read more: How daylight saving time impacts everyday life

2. Use case: Scheduling across time zones

An analog alarm clock beside a paper calendar, a paper datebook with pencil, and three small wooden stamps on a wooden background

Working with events across multiple time zones is a normal need in today’s connected world. Whether we’re connecting with loved ones on the other side of the world, working remotely with a global team, or sharing events with a worldwide audience, we have to schedule across time zones.

Teamup can help with these scenarios, with automatic time zone detection, event time conversion, and more. Find out how you can use Teamup to manage events and share accurate event timing with folks all over the world.

Read more: Schedule and share events across time zones

3. Feature highlight: Automatic time zone conversion

With Teamup, event timing is automatically converted accurately when you change time zones. So you can create events in your own time zone, then change to a different time zone, and the event time will shift. Or share the event with a colleague or friend; the event timing will adjust for the time zone they’re viewing.

Screenshot of a website header with the title "Current time in Adelaide, Australia" followed by a calendar image with a red line to indicate the current time

See how easy it is to use by checking the current time in a city around the world. Choose any city from the list, then click the time zone indicator in the bottom right to change to another time zone. The current time indicator and events will shift appropriately.

See the current time in cities around the world

Screenshot of a digital calendar showing the current time in Costa Rica, with a dialog open to change to a different time zone.


Create your own calendar that does time zone conversions automatically for all your events. Daylight Saving Time (DST) are always automatically taken into account. Take the stress out of working across time zones and let Teamup do the work for you!


5. October’s power tips from the Teamup Ticker

Keep the current week at the top of the screen

With Teamup, when working in a browser, you can use Multi-week view instead of Month view. Multi-week view automatically keeps the current week at the top of the screen. Rather than a static view of each month, you get a dynamic view of several weeks, up to 53 weeks, with the current week always on top. 

A multi-week calendar view for a Teamup calendar shows 4 weeks with the current week on top and the current day highlighted. Color-coded event titles are visible.

Calendar settings vs Teamup app settings

The Teamup calendar settings are the “control center” for the calendar, accessible only by an administrator. Teamup app settings are available for all users for app-specific configuration, not for the calendar itself. 

Two mobile screens show 1) the open left sidebar of the Teamup app with a red arrow pointing to the gear icon, and 2) the app settings.

Display a calendar with a limited date range

Customize an embedded Teamup calendar to show only a limited date range by choosing the appropriate calendar view, setting the starting date, and hiding date controls.

A minimal view of an embedded Teamup calendar has three days visible with no date controls or options to change the calendar view.

Easily compare calendar data points

Choose which sub-calendars to be visible, and use the built-in filters to view events in Table view and compare data across date ranges. 

A Teamup calendar shown in Table view has a list of events filtered by sub-calendar, keyword, and custom field option.

If you share a link-based calendar URL with a large group to eliminate the need for everyone to create their own user accounts, you can enable password protection for the link to keep it secure and accessible only by currently authorized people. 

A login screen to a shareable calendar link for a Teamup calendar shows a password prompt and a green Open button.

6. Product updates: Mobile browser, push notifications (early access)

An improved mobile browser experience
Two mobile screens show Teamup calendar accessed on a mobile browser, 1) in Week view with horizontal arrows indicating that you can swipe to navigate dates and 2) a pop-up date picker.

If you frequently use Teamup on a mobile browser, you’ll love our latest update. We’ve made the Teamup web client easier and more fun to use on a mobile device with swiping to navigate and improved behavior throughout.

Early access to push notifications for calendar changes

We are rolling out push notifications for mobile phones. The notifications are pushed to your mobile devices when changes occur: an event is added, modified, or removed. If you’re in the selected group of users with early access, go to Teamup app settings to enable push notifications for calendar changes.


7. Insight: Time zone conversion tools

A header image shows a starry night sky with planet earth in the bottom one-third of the image. There is a glowing white grid of connecting nodes imposed over earth.


Time zone conversion tools help us bridge the geographical boundaries and stay mindful of everyone’s schedule limitations. There are simple browser-based calculators, full-fledged apps with widgets, and more. Take a look at our top 10 tools for time zone conversion.

8. User feedback favorites from October

9. October’s free printables and blank calendars

Here’s a themed November printable calendar for those celebrating U.S. Thanksgiving. Click the image or use the Download button to save and print the PDF.

A November month calendar, blank, with a Happy Thanksgiving heading in a cursive font. The background is a cream color with foliage and flowers in fall colors on the bottom and left and ride sides.


Printable blank calendars for next month and quarter

To print: Ctrl-P on Windows or Cmd-P on Mac.


 See all October tickersNew tickers are added daily, so don’t forget to check them out on the calendar or collected on our News page.

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