Timezone needed?

[Bernhard Reiter]

With the agreement we have in making UTC explicit,
my question below
results in that a client has to create two event entries
and limits them according to its daylight time shifting.
Did I understand that correctly?

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 15:58, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> RFC2445 nicely descripes that floating times can have its uses, too,
> but this is outside of my remark. I also believe that floating times can
> become a hassle in implementing and showing the user something useful.
>
> Above I am using a time and date with a  timezone which is fixed
> for each recurring event. When creating the event, the CEO decides
> in which timezone he thinks. If he makes the event in Africa/Johannesburg
> that means this is 7:30 UTC in January and July leading up to his client
> showing him 8:30 in January and 9:30 in July when being in Europe/Berlin.
>
> > Another thing: Since none of the clients support actually doing this, I
> > think it's pretty theoretical.
>
> What does Kontact do currently, if we create such an event?

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