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

[Lester Caine <[e-mail]>]

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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