Recurring events with timezone

[Joon Radley]

Hi Georg,

> 
> On Wednesday 20 October 2010 08.46:48 Joon Radley wrote:
>> The problem is: UTC -> User B local time is incorrect.
> 
> Actually I understood the problem to be that user A in Johannesburg has no way 
> to declare an event "sticky" in the time zone of user B,  and that hence it is 
> impossible to get the intended behaviour from the event by purely using UTC.

No the problem defined was that a client can not calculate the time zone with daylight savings time in a recusing event without the addition of some TZ information.

I do not understand the need for a "sticky" time zone. Could you maybe elaborate on this with a use case? 

Best Regards

Joon Radley

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On 20 Oct 2010, at 9:51 AM, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:

> Hi Joon,
> 
> On Wednesday 20 October 2010 08.46:48 Joon Radley wrote:
>> The problem is: UTC -> User B local time is incorrect.
> 
> Actually I understood the problem to be that user A in Johannesburg has no way 
> to declare an event "sticky" in the time zone of user B,  and that hence it is 
> impossible to get the intended behaviour from the event by purely using UTC.
> 
> Best regards,
> Georg
> 
> 
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