[Ti] [OT] iCal Stupidity

[Robert Nicholson]

How about the way DateBk5 solves this problem.

Check this out page 65 onwards.

http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/datebk5-manual.zip

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 09:24  AM, Victor Eijkhout wrote:

>>
>> iCal events are built with a your local timezone associated with 
>> them, so that when you switch timezones, their times are shown in 
>> your local timezone & thus are shifted from the timezone with which 
>> they were set.
>
> Right. Now I'm wondering, the reason this showed up was that I 
> restarted iCal while on travel, and the restart was because I upgraded 
> to 10.2.4. I have no evidence that this behaviour was present in 
> earlier iCal versions. Was it?
>
>>  In the example you give for setting your return flight, the approach 
>> to use is to change your timezone to your destination time zone.  
>> Create the return flight event & then switch back to your local 
>> timezone.  Not pretty, but it fixes the issue you describe.
>
> It fixes what I would call a design error.
>
>> events like this are easier.  Since some events like flights will 
>> start in one timezone & end in others, I'd like the option to define 
>> both start & end timezones.  This won't cause problems for duration, 
>> but it will possibly be confusing.
>
> Right. I vote for no changes in event times. That does mean that my 
> flight westward will look very short and the return flight very long, 
> but _so_bleeping_what_? I'm not using iCal to bill hours. I can deal 
> with such a peculiarity. I find the current behaviour much more 
> annoying, and any solution (like you propose) extremely cumbersome.
>
> If you need to change the timezone to enter the time of the return 
> flight, do you also have to change daylight savings time if that 
> flight is on the other side of the change?
>
> -- 
> Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu>
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