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From: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: DST and appointments in other timezones
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:19:47 +0000
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On Wednesday, 13 Nov 2019 at 23:26, Leo Gaspard wrote:
> Well, ideally org-mode could be adapted to support timestamps in
> arbitrary timezones, but I guess there are reasons why that's not
> supported?

In principle, it is possible to extend org to handle time zones.  The
challenges are a) somebody stepping up to do it and b) doing it in an
upwards compatible way to avoid breaking all existing org documents.
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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.6-544-gd215c3