Comments on: Time Zone support in iCal http://macmegasite.com/node/1978 Community-driven Macintosh news, tips, and rumors. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:53:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://macmegasite.com/node/1978/comment-page-#comment-500 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-500 Well, it's a quibble that I can't show my sked tomorrow as departing OAK at 3:30 PST and arriving JFK at 11:45PM EST. The <b>real horrible</b> problem comes when you backup and synch your Palm, phone, iPod, dotMac, etc. These devices and even Apple's service are even less aware of the subtleties. Several times, I have found myself up with multiple entries for the same appointment. Once I got so tangled that I had some 16,000 (!) calendar entries be juggled in a synch, most of them ridiculous duplicates. It takes forever. Took hours and some risk of losing my files to get back to the few dozens that I actually have. It'd be nice if you entered times with a (defaultable) zone, and they were stored in GMT, with notes about the intended DISPLAY preference: specific zone or "Current Local." Or whatever it'd take to keep this colossal SNAFU from arising. It can take hours to fix, if you mistakenly plug in your iPod to a laptop (intending only a recharge) when you're on the road in a different zone, and have a synch happen while you're not watching. Well, it’s a quibble that I can’t show my sked tomorrow as departing OAK at 3:30 PST and arriving JFK at 11:45PM EST.

The real horrible problem comes when you backup and synch your Palm, phone, iPod, dotMac, etc.

These devices and even Apple’s service are even less aware of the subtleties. Several times, I have found myself up with multiple entries for the same appointment. Once I got so tangled that I had some 16,000 (!) calendar entries be juggled in a synch, most of them ridiculous duplicates. It takes forever. Took hours and some risk of losing my files to get back to the few dozens that I actually have.

It’d be nice if you entered times with a (defaultable) zone, and they were stored in GMT, with notes about the intended DISPLAY preference: specific zone or “Current Local.” Or whatever it’d take to keep this colossal SNAFU from arising. It can take hours to fix, if you mistakenly plug in your iPod to a laptop (intending only a recharge) when you’re on the road in a different zone, and have a synch happen while you’re not watching.

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