Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 20/01/2023 12:39, Tim Cross wrote:
> 
> No, I disagree with that statement. That is old thinking based when
> meetings meant face to face meetings. Only meeting which have a specific
> location can have a time zone and even then, it isn't really the
> meetings time zone, but instead the time zone of the participants at the
> meeting.

Tim, I am trying to say that any meeting either face to face or on-line 
may be associated with arbitrary primary timezone. Even when all 
participants are in Sydney they may decide to fix time in Darwin. It is 
strange, but it is possible. UTC is just one of time zones that may be 
convenient for on-line meeting despite no participant really use it. 
Local timezone is usually preferred for purely face to face meetings. 
You are not realizing that is decision since it is not verbalized. 
Consider timezone as something unrelated to location but just a set of 
rules how time offset in respect to epoch evolves in time.

UI might offer you to choose time in your timezone and to select another 
timezone for storage. For your convenience it still may be presented to 
you in your local timezone even it is stored in UTC or some other one.