Thanks for the link, but I don't think that fixes the problem. If anything, it looks like it'll make it worse. If I'm traveling from CA to NY and I enter a bunch of meetings and flight, and then get to NY and enter some additional ones... they're going to be wrong.
A Calendar event is a specific moment in time, it doesn't move with timezones.
So if you want to enter an event which will be at 7pm local time in NY but you're currently in CA, why would you enter it at 7pm in your own timezone? Just enter it at 7pm and select NY as timezone.
"why would you enter it at 7pm in your own timezone"
Because I (and, I suspect, most people) enter appointments BEFORE my trips. And, while on a trip, I may set up appointments that will take place after I return.
Why should we have to dick around figuring out what timezone we're going to be in for every appointment in the future? Who operates like that?
I know that the phone will show the correct time wherever I am. So all I need is to set up the appointment reminder based on the TIME SHOWN ON THE PHONE, regardless of where it is. I want to tell Calendar: "When the clock on my phone says '10:00 a.m.', raise an alert."
For whom is this not the most common use case? Obviously you should be ABLE to specify a timezone, but I submit that the default should be "local."
But you’re having the appointment with other people, right? How does that work?
How can you make an appointment for a specific local time without setting a specific timezone? Are the people you’re having the appointment with traveling with you?
Good question if you're assuming that those people are invitees in my Calendar entry (which is seldom the case for me). If you "invite" people within Calendar, then you would simply be forced to select a time zone instead of "none" or "floating."
If I understand what you're saying, it's that you don't want the calendar to adjust any times based on location/timezone.
What I believe tour perfect scenario to be: you enter an event for 10am (even if in a different timezone than your local), and it always shows up as 10am on your calendar, regardless of where you are.
If you fix your calendar to a single timezone, nothing updates time dynamically, and you take on the responsibility of manually translating timezone shifts.
- You're in PT
- A 9am event in PT, you add at _9am_ on your calendar.
- A 10am event in ET, you do the timezone translation manually, and add at _8am_ on your calendar.
