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Schedules

A schedule is a named set of hours you're open for meetings. Every event type points at one schedule; 42min starts from that schedule, removes your calendar's busy events and the event type's buffers, and offers what's left. You manage schedules from Availability → Schedules.

What it is

Each schedule has:

• A name (e.g. Working hours, Interview hours).
• A time zone — the schedule is defined in your zone; invitees still see slots in theirs.
• Weekly hours — for each weekday, the time ranges you're available. A day with no ranges is unavailable. See Weekly hours and date overrides.
• Date overrides — one-off exceptions for specific dates.
• One schedule is your default — new event types use it unless you pick another.

You can keep several schedules and assign different event types to different ones — for example, a Sales hours schedule for demo links and a tighter Interview hours schedule for hiring.

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When to make a new one

• A category of meeting needs different hours — after-hours demos, morning-only interviews, weekend office hours.
• You want one event type bookable on a narrower window than the rest of your day.

If every event type should share the same hours, you only need the default schedule.

How to do it

1. Open Availability → Schedules.
2. Edit your default schedule, or click to add a new one: set the time zone and the weekly hours.
3. Add any date overrides for known exceptions.
4. When you create or edit an event type, pick which schedule it uses on the editor's Schedule tab — see the editor overview.

Common pitfalls

• Edited the wrong schedule. If you keep several, double-check you're editing the one the event type in question actually uses.
• No upcoming hours → no slots. A schedule whose only hours are on days that have passed (or that's all weekends when your event type spans a weekday window) produces an empty booking page.
• Per-event-type caps live elsewhere. A schedule controls hours, not how many meetings you'll take — that's meeting limits (account-wide) and per-event-type limits.