The Direction of Time

The timeline points to the future, right? Clock numbers get bigger, day numbers get bigger, and year numbers get bigger in the future.

And how about daylight savings time with its "Spring forward, Fall back"? They want you to move the clock forward (to a bigger number) in the spring and to move the clock backward (to a smaller number) in the fall.

So why do we move meetings forward (meaning to meet sooner, at a time with a smaller number) and deadlines back (meaning to deliver later, at a time with a bigger number)? Or am I confused about meeting times? Maybe that explains why I am almost always late to meetings.

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