I have online appointments in different timezones.
I manually convert to my own time zone and add that to my agenda.
Extra care has to be taken with appointments near start/end of daylight saving time. The clock does not go forward/backward an hour globally on the same date. In those few weeks it's quite easy to be wrong an hour.
I'm thinking about something like:
a]
Enter 1pm Chicago and ePIM enters 20:00 in my calendar. Perhaps adding a note like (1pm - Chicago)
b]
Many of my appointments are with the same people, so I could select them from a list and then ePIM gets the time zone data from their profile.
That could be by just scrolling through a list.
Ideally it will match what I type and asks me to confirm the match. Example, all my appointments contain the name of the person I have an appointment with. So when I type that name (in a special field) ePIM automatically fetches the time zone data.
Calendar timezones
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Re: Calendar timezones
These are nice suggestions, thanks! Will probably start with introduction of the time zones (point "a") first and then continue with point "b".
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Re: Calendar timezones
I recently got into this "situation". Not a real bad problem, but on Cell phones and laptops. Don't change the actual database, but a setting that says "Adjust times for timezone settings?" and "Adjust times for daylight savings time?" Add a confirmation question "Is your device set to show the time zone you are in?" Both my laptop and Android phone do this.
PS our agency used a product called Lotus Notes (Yea, I'm THAT OLD!). The program would show the time for a meeting based on the time zone settings on the computer. Some people changed the time zone settings on their computer to UTC. Caused them to be scheduled for a meeting at 2am!
PS our agency used a product called Lotus Notes (Yea, I'm THAT OLD!). The program would show the time for a meeting based on the time zone settings on the computer. Some people changed the time zone settings on their computer to UTC. Caused them to be scheduled for a meeting at 2am!