Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda

[Tim Cross]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 20/01/2023 12:39, Tim Cross wrote:
>> No, I disagree with that statement. That is old thinking based when
>> meetings meant face to face meetings. Only meeting which have a specific
>> location can have a time zone and even then, it isn't really the
>> meetings time zone, but instead the time zone of the participants at the
>> meeting.
>
> Tim, I am trying to say that any meeting either face to face or on-line may 
> be associated
> with arbitrary primary timezone. Even when all participants are in Sydney 
> they may decide
> to fix time in Darwin. It is strange, but it is possible. UTC is just one of 
> time zones
> that may be convenient for on-line meeting despite no participant really use 
> it. Local
> timezone is usually preferred for purely face to face meetings. You are not 
> realizing that
> is decision since it is not verbalized. Consider timezone as something 
> unrelated to
> location but just a set of rules how time offset in respect to epoch evolves 
> in time.
>

and what you are saying is helpful how? In what way does what you are
sayhing help address my use case?




> UI might offer you to choose time in your timezone and to select another 
> timezone for
> storage. For your convenience it still may be presented to you in your local 
> timezone even
> it is stored in UTC or some other one.

and I have said as much. So, how exactly is your contribution assisting
with the use case I've outlined?