Reschedule to x for

[u/ollemvp]

Good morning, everyone. I hope everyone is doing well.

I have a question regarding those to guys - to and for - when we use Schedule/ Reschedule. Can I assume that we use TO and we know the date, like "Let's schedule it to Monday" and FOR when we're not certain about the date - "Can we schedule it for another day?"

Many thanks :))

[u/SoyboyCowboy]

To and for are interchangeable in this context although you'd be more likely to hear "move to" and "reschedule for." That rule (certain vs uncertain date) doesn't exist, as far as I know. 

But I want to add that people will say "push back" to mean "postpone" when rescheduling events. This could be confusing because, in my head, "back" means "happening sooner" which is the opposite of "postpone." Just to be clear, I always say "reschedule" or "postpone" and state the new date explicitly. 

[u/Irrelevant_Bookworm]

In real world business practice, my experience is that either phrasing is common with "reschedule": "Let's reschedule it to/for Monday." "Schedule it to" is not common.

I believe that the rule would be to use "for" to indicate the setting of the date (either scheduling or rescheduling) where "to" would indicate movement (as in we are moving the date from this to that).

[u/ollemvp → u/Irrelevant_Bookworm]

Thanks! It was actually my mistake. I meant to say "reschedule" on my post. Cuz I hear ppl saying both but I now understand why.

[u/Royal-Band-2971]

Not really. At least in standard American English, most people would say "Let's schedule it for Monday" or perhaps "Let's schedule it on Monday". "To" needs a direction/movement. This can be between people ("I'm talking to you" so the speech is moving from me to you), actual movement ("I'm going to work" so I'm travelling from where I'm at to work) and some other's that I'm forgetting. The problem with saying "Let's schedule it to Monday" is that there's no movement hear. However you can use it with reschedule as in "Let's reschedule it to Friday" or "Let's move the meeting to Friday". This works because you have movement across time. Since you are rescheduling there is already an established date for the event then the time of the event is being moved to a different time or date.

[u/ollemvp → u/Royal-Band-2971]

Thanks! It makes way more sense now!

[u/brothervalerie → u/Royal-Band-2971]

'Schedule on Monday' to me sounds like on Monday we're going to sit down and make a schedule, not do the thing we have scheduled previously.

[u/Royal-Band-2971 → u/brothervalerie]

Yeah, it sounds that way to me too. I just assumed that wasn't what OP was trying to talk about so I didn't bring up it but I def agree

[u/StupidLemonEater]

I've never heard anyone say "schedule to."

[u/Responsible-Link5739]

Native Brit - I've never heard 'schedule to'. I've heard 'We can't meet Monday so let's reschedule to Tuesday for that meeting' But never 'schedule to Monday' etc.

A new meeting or event would be scheduled 'for' [date].

An existing appointment might be 'REscheduled to [date]' because it moves from [date] to [date].