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Google Calendar is also guilty of this nonsense, I missed a flight exactly for this reason.

At least for Google Calendar, it's pretty easy to avoid the mental math by using the built-in time zones. You can select the time zone when creating the event[0].

[0] https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37064

iOS does this, too. There's and entry for "time zone" immediately beneath the time setting spinny thing.

I came very close to missing a flight because of this too. It's ridiculous.

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