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That doesn't sound at all logical to me. The phone conference is scheduled for a particular time, eg 10am in Montreal. The other meeting participants do not care that it is now 10am in Mombasa, where your phone happens to be at the moment - they will not be at the meeting for another 7 hours anyway.

Your other way also allows for the same event to happen twice, at different times, which is entirely unexpected.

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Yes, very true. Doesn't work very well for events where people are attending from multiple time zones. I was thinking more of events that I attend in person.

But I'll use the paper diary example again - if I was in Mombassa and was due to have a phone conference at 10am Montreal time, I would write "6pm - Phone conference" in my diary (assuming that is indeed the correct local time).

And in your example, yes, it would be easier for me if I could tell my calendar that it is "10am, montreal time, please adjust that to mombassa time". So I guess my ideal solution would be a calendar app that works the way I described unless I specifically override it.

Anyway, I think this proves the point that time is hard.

Alternatively, we could all just use UTC+0 and never worry about time zones again! :)

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