Services are often arranged to operate at regular intervals throughout the day or part of the day (known as clock-face scheduling).

Memorario is the regional railway system of Tuscany, operated by Trenitalia since 2004 and based on a clock-face scheduling.

Design of the schedule may aim to make times memorable for passengers, through the use of clock-face scheduling - services departing at regular intervals, at the same times every hour.

The Commission put the priority freight corridors here, and the integrated system, which has clock-face scheduling in local passenger rail transport and also allows regular-interval long-distance transport in Germany as well as freight transport, needs to be particularly well coordinated.

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can be taken on a continuous or cyclic schedule and in a higher or lower dose.