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

[Max Nikulin]

On 20/01/2023 15:11, Tim Cross wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>
> > Tim, I am trying to say that any meeting either face to face or on-line may be 
> > associated
> > with arbitrary primary timezone.
>
> and what you are saying is helpful how? In what way does what you are
> sayhing help address my use case?

Tim, are you trying to convince me that for Org it is enough to have 
timestamps either as local time <2023-02-20 15:00> or as UTC something 
like <2023-02-20 05:00Z> and ability to specify arbitrary timezone 
instead of UTC is redundant?

I believe that in the case of support of optional arbitrary timezone in 
Org files there is no point of distinction between you cases when all 
participants meet face to face (<2023-02-20 15:00> or <2023-02-20 
15:00@Australia/Sydney>) or it is online meeting scheduled as 
<2023-02-20 09:00@Etc/UTC>.

> > UI might offer you to choose time in your timezone and to select another 
> > timezone for
> > storage. For your convenience it still may be presented to you in your local 
> > timezone even
> > it is stored in UTC or some other one.
>
> and I have said as much. So, how exactly is your contribution assisting
> with the use case I've outlined?

I had a hope to assure you that unifying the cases you are considering 
as distinct should not make user experience worse.

Local event and UTC is meaningful for UI to enter or adjust timestamp 
where such cases should be easier to select than arbitrary timezone. For 
parsing, generating agenda, or export a more abstract model can be used.