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For oil change frequency, (at a simple level) there is a time-based and mileage-based consideration. For example, an older car will have 1 year/12,000 miles oil change interval, whichever is the sooner. Also worth bearing in mind, new oil has a shelf life.
For newer cars, they use a service interval indicator which also takes into account things like number of engine starts, type of driving (it will shorten the interval if there's lots of high-speed, full throttle use etc) etc in addition to simply the time and mileage. So, for my car it has an indicator, so I'll follow that.
Some cars also have a choice to go "longlife" on service stuff - VW/Audi around 2000-->, for example. The owner has a choice of regular or longlife servicing. The longlife uses a higher specification oil and other components (eg filter), and can work out for higher mileage/useage owners. Personally for me (lower miles) it would have never worked out because I think it triggers after 15 months anyway, and I'd have not done the longlife's miles in that time - thus not saving anything. Also if you do your own servicing on VW/Audi, to switch/use longlife intervals you need a proper service interval reset tool, not just resetting it with the pressing the buttons on the dash (which will reset but put it into regular mode).