I'm with Damien on this one. I think the iCal timezone support is exactly right. I don't even use the new timezone feature. Everything goes in to iCal in my local timezone, including events in other timezones, but for items that span timezones (air travel) I do the math in my head when adding the event, and the title/subject of the event contains the local times for start and stop. Here's one for a couple of days ago: "SJC-JFK AA 288 (11:25a-7:50p)". That's not an 8.5 hour flight - I leave at 11:25 in San Jose, and land at 7:50pm in New York.

You're thinking - do timezone math manually? Well, I have to do it all the time, because non-tz warriors don't think in anything but their local time zone. So to reduce confusion I always use their time zone when I'm talking to them, which means I have to do the math anyway.

I realize you (Cory) work differently. But that doesn't mean iCal's timezone handling is broken.