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> It should operate like a good old paper calendar.

In that case, you enter a recurring 10 am conference call every Monday, and the moment you move timezones you miss the call.

The problem really is (as mentioned in this thread) that the user's intent is not known.

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There are two use cases: one is for meetings with participants in different timezones. Gcal does this well. There other use case is travel. For this the current system is not very good.

Well, you know the timezone: it's of wherever in Germany the meeting will take place.

I think the problem is the display: since you know you'll be in Germany from date X to Y, you should be able to configure the presentation timezone for those days (which would also show you those meetings in the local time when you'll have to make them).

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