From: Darrell Fuhriman Date: 16:47 on 23 Aug 2007 Subject: iCal Timezones Dear Apple, In your iCal application, there is a setting in the Advanced tab of the Preferences. This setting allows me to select or deselect "Turn on Timezone Support." This option is off for me. When I set an appointment time, it is based on the timezone I will be in at that time. When I travel it tends to be for long periods of time, and I often create appointments for when I'm in my "home" timezone. So for instance, I call my doctor from the west coast and schedule an appointment for 10am in my home on the east coast. I then enter an appointment at 10am into iCal. A few weeks later I fly home, and dutifully change my timezone in the system preferences. iCal dutifully sets my appointment to be at 1pm. To me this raises a question: What part of "Don't enable Timezone Support" do you not understand? Do you need another checkbox for "Don't use any Timezones and I really fucking mean it. Not like that other wussy option above that only claims to manage Timezone Support"? And if you did, would swearing violate the Interface Guidelines? So instead I have to shut iCal down, go into the special Library directory, open up vi and replace every instance of US/Pacific with US/Eastern so I actually can go to the doctor on time. Lucky I don't have, say, pancreatic cancer where missing my doctor's appointment because of your idiotic software might kill me Sincerely, Baffled Consumer PS, here's a question: Why has iTunes suddenly decided to stop playing the current track just because I put a CD in? Answer: Because it already has that CD in its library! Makes sense, doesn't it? Apparently we also need an option under what to do with an inserted CD that is "Import and Eject, and don't fucking stop playing the music if you already have this CD."
From: Robert Rothenberg Date: 13:21 on 26 Aug 2007 Subject: Re: iCal Timezones Reminds me of when I tried sharing a calendar file between Mozilla Sunbird and KOffice (both hateful bits of software). It turns out that KOffice would adjust events added in Sunbird by one hour, apparently due to some confusion about daylight vs standard time. I recall finding it strange that something more polished like KOffice was munging my calendar files instead of the alpha-quality Sunbird. So much for sharing a common data file among multiple applications. I learned my lesson quickly. On 23/08/07 16:47 Darrell Fuhriman wrote: > > Dear Apple, > > In your iCal application, there is a setting in the Advanced tab of the > Preferences. This setting allows me to select or deselect "Turn on > Timezone Support." This option is off for me. When I set an appointment > time, it is based on the timezone I will be in at that time. > > When I travel it tends to be for long periods of time, and I often > create appointments for when I'm in my "home" timezone. So for > instance, I call my doctor from the west coast and schedule an > appointment for 10am in my home on the east coast. I then enter an > appointment at 10am into iCal. A few weeks later I fly home, and > dutifully change my timezone in the system preferences. iCal dutifully > sets my appointment to be at 1pm. > > To me this raises a question: What part of "Don't enable Timezone > Support" do you not understand? > > Do you need another checkbox for "Don't use any Timezones and I really > fucking mean it. Not like that other wussy option above that only claims > to manage Timezone Support"? And if you did, would swearing violate the > Interface Guidelines?
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