* Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> [2023-01-19 00:31]: > The problem is with meeting 2 and the assumption there is a definitive > timezone for the meeting. > > Consider this scenario. I have a meeting with two other people. We are > all in different timezone. What is the timezone of the meeting?
Org in this state can't handle such things. A person in any timezone shall be able to see that time in his local time zone if we speak of distant meetings, and in case of face to face meetings, that person shall have computer aid to show him the meeting time in any time zone that user is located, during travel and upon arrival to face to face meeting. User is supposed to be assisted by computer. And not to assist to computer, or to get troubles from computer. - Time zone shall be more or less recognizable by city and country. - User addresses in the address book shall be part of every computer system - It is natural and common sense to know addresses of people one wants to meet - By using location of person one wants to meet, computer has got enough information for representation of the time zone - By sharing appointment record to user in other time zone, that user would see it in his time zone, or by choice in original time zone of the meeting place A record of time, shall have two attributes, the UTC time and the time zone to be displayed. By using system time zone setting, Org file time zone settings, heading time zone settings or time stamp time zone setting, any export of Org shall contain (by user's option) the desired representation of time stamps. Function of sharing of meetings shall ask local user: - is user in different time zone? And then by choice of the user's location, the time representation shall be prepared in such way that both parties understand each other. That is really not in the sphere of Org where there is not even a decent address book available. Just re-write the time by hand for your friend at other part of the world, write the timestamp in his time zone and your time zone, and problem solved. It is supposed to be text. It is not God. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/