At the end of the day, here's why I think that this "feature" is broken:

I want to be able to enter an event and specify a start and stop time, and then tell my computer to NEVER change those times. Turning off timezone support should do that: it should tell your computer to stop screwing with your calendar.

When my computer takes it upon itself automatically adjusting my calendar, there are real, substantial risks -- i.e., it could cause me to miss a transoceanic flight.

I think that I should have the right, as a user, to assert that I know best when I set the times for my events, and to instruct my computer to leave the times as I have set them.

Solution: use Now Up to Date. It's more robust, has views that don't resemble a barbershop appointment book, is networkable across the internet (with read AND write capabilities) and has stood the test of time. It might not be as pretty as iCal, but you know what? It just works. And it doesn't bend over backwards to impress me (and fail miserably.) It just works. Which is what I want my scheduler to do.

If not, look into Palm Desktop (free) or even MS Entourage.

But for all that is good and holy, if you are serious in your business enough to actually be considered an important ingredient of a pre-scheduled conference call, do not rely on iCal.

The thing is, iCal *isn't* screwing with your calendar. It isn't changing anything at all. If you enter an event as happening at 3PM PST, that event will remain at 3PM PST. Your calendar is never adjusted in any way. I find this very logical and consistent, and I can't imagine any other way that it should work.

If I enter a 3PM item and change my system-clock, iCal makes it a 2PM item (and synchs it to my PalmOS device). That's changing my calendar. It's catastrophic when, i.e., it tells me that my 3PM flight actually leaves at 4PM.

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