Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> [2023-01-14 20:08]:
>> > When you have appointments with people in totally diverse time zones,
>> > perhaps dates tend to be more fixed wrt UTC.
>> 
>> AFAIK, people don't usually bother.
>
> Can't agree to that, we who do bother will simply find different
> solutions but Org, like I have developed it for myself or other CRM
> systems where all time issues are solved fundamentally on the database
> level.

I think you misunderstood my statement here.

"People don't bother" does not make life easier for us.
I was replying to an assertion that it is common for meeting times to be
expressed in non-ambiguous UTC+XX offsets. I gave an example that it is
not the case - some meetings are, in fact, scheduled in local, tricky
time zones. We have to account for those.

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