From: Gary Britt 

Except for a calendar shared across timezones.  It only makes sense to
schedule things based upon local time.  At least to me.  If I'm going to be
on a conference call at X time.  I enter the local time for me.  The
parties should translate timezones when setting up the meeting and each
participant is responsible for putting down the right time for them on
their local calendar.

Someone mentioned shared calendars across timezones where there could be a
problem, but for the life of me I can't imagine why somebody would want to
share a calendar across timezones.  Everybody keep there own calendar and
is responsible for their own calendar seems to make the most sense to me. 
Its one thing to make the calendars viewable across timezones/offices but
to make them actually shared seems a problem waiting to happen to me.

Gary

Rich wrote:
>    You would be wrong to schedule an 9:00 AM appt in CA as 9:00 AM EST.
> You schedule it for 9:00 AM PST or 12:00 PM EST, the actual time of the
> meeting.  I do the former because it is clearer for me.  Maybe it is
> easier for you to think about a teleconference between you and someone
> in CA where what is at 9:00 AM for some participants is at 12:00 PM for
> you and others.
>
> Rich
>
>
>     "Gary Britt"      > wrote in message
>     news:45fe7d3b{at}w3.nls.net...
>     This doesn't make sense to me.  If I schedule a meeting in
>     California for
>     tomorrow at 9:00 AM, expecting to fly there from the East Coast
>     today, I
>     enter it on my calendar for 9:00 AM.  When I arrive in California
>     and pull
>     up my calendar I expect it to still say 9:00 AM.  Further, when I
>     schedule
>     it for 9:00 AM while on east coast local time, I don't expect to
>     enter it as
>     12:00 PM EST so it will show up on the calendar in California for
>     9:00 AM.
>
>     All appointments are scheduled for local time without regard to
>     timezones.
>
>     Gary
>
>     Geo. wrote:
>     >  "Gregg N"      > wrote in message
>     >  news:45fd6769{at}w3.nls.net...
>     >
>     > > What is the reason for storing the time as UTC instead of as local
>     > > time, given that local time is what is being scheduled?
>     >
>     >  Global corporations, I may travel to another office and it would
>     need to
>     >  remind me at the correct time when I'm there.
>     >
>     >  Geo.

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