I'm not sure about Fantastical 2, and contrary to David's opinion there
are competent programmers working outside of Apple :-), but for the most
part, you just need to set up the event for the time zone the phone is
currently using, and it'll adjust when you get to your destination and
the phone adjusts it's time zone automatically. Many calendar
applications, such as Google Calendar, will let you set the time zone in
addition to just using the default time zone, so if you're in the
central time zone, but you know what time the event is in the eastern
time zone, then you can just set the time zone when you're scheduling
the event and the calendar will take care of the rest as you change time
zones.
I know what you mean about time zones being confusing. I used to work
for a company where I traveled a lot and called into a lot of meetings
that were scheduled by people all over the world. I got into the habit
of just consistently using one time zone, like US central or universal
time when adding a meeting to my calendar. If I didn't have the time to
do the calculation myself, I could just use Google calendar's ability to
change the time zone to whatever the time zone was where the person was
setting up the meeting.
On 06/21/2015 08:21 AM, Alan Lemly wrote:
Hi Wayne,
I don't use Fantastical 2 but last year when I set up NFB convention events
in Outlook, I mistakenly set them with their actual eastern timezone times
even though I'm also located in the central timezone. When I got to Orlando
for the convention, all the event times were automatically advanced by an
hour to reflect eastern time. I don't know what setting I could have changed
to avoid this if any but if I make any appointments in Outlook for this
year's convention, I'm going to use central time and record them an hour
earlier than scheduled. I have a hard time wrapping my brain around how
Outlook handles this timezone stuff and I wish I could set it to assume the
times entered were for the timezone where the event is held.
Alan Lemly
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:50 PM
To: viphone
Subject: Calendar events in different timezones
All,
I asked this question a few months ago, but want to make sure I
understand everything once again. I am going to Orlando for the NFB
national convention in a couple of weeks. I live in the Central
timezone. However, since I am scheduling a few appointments using
Fantastical 2 which happen in Florida, I want to make sure my times
and appointments will not get all messed up when I get to Florida. I
have timezone support on my phone turned on, so does that mean that
when I go from Central to Eastern that my appointments will
automatically adjust the time or will they stay at the same time? I
find this whole issue of changing timezones very confusing so could
someone please explain simply and put me at ease.
Thanks,
Wayne
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