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Operations timezone

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# Operations timezone

The one instance-wide IANA timezone baseline every cadence is relative to. A
`ProgramSchedule` stores only its wall-clock **hour**; that hour is interpreted against the operations
timezone, and the scheduler's Croner fires it there → the exact absolute (UTC) instant. So a cadence set to
"9am" fires at 9am *in this zone*, and changing the baseline **re-relativizes every cadence at once** — the
one-action way to relocate (Sydney → New York) without editing a single domain. It is **Director-only** (set
in Settings → Timezone) and **instance-wide**: every member operates under it. Cadence times display in this
zone first with the absolute UTC alongside, so "when does this run" is never ambiguous. Stored in the record
meta (`aux/meta.json` `operationsTimezone`); read by both the clients and the daemon scheduler.
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