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Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managing historical data

Doug Royer <douglasroyer@gmail.com> Wed, 10 December 2014 22:06 UTC

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From: Doug Royer <douglasroyer@gmail.com>
To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managing historical data
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You use the organizers TZ rules. If your user agent wants to map that into
your time, then great. But it still has to match what they will host.

Its not local time. Its organizers time.



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On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 10/12/14 20:38, Doug Royer wrote:
> > The organizer of an event specifies the timezone info. Even if it does
> > not match yours, its the time they will be hosting the event.
> >
> > Why does it have to match another event from another organizer?
> If they are organising linked meetings such as video conferencing then
> it would be useful if they are using the same set of offsets?
>
> I can keep adding examples of where a change to the local time of a
> meeting may impinge on other activities in different time zones. Booking
> flights is another problem if you have allowed an hour to get your
> flight and the meeting is moved back an hour ...
>
> If all you need is the local time then you probably have no interest in
> UTC anyway which is why most systems could not even handle an event
> which happens across several time zones. It's putting the system in
> place that ensures that when booking a multi timezone event everybody is
> using the same set of offsets.
>
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