alt Hacker NewsBut I don't want my San Francisco meeting to display in my calendar as 1am the day before when I'm in Sydney, then switch to 4pm on Tuesday once I'm in California. And I sure as hell don't want the displayed time in Sydney to switch from 1am to 11pm or 3am just because daylight savings kicked in.
It's a 4pm Tuesday meeting. I want it to show as 4pm while I'm in Sydney, 4pm while I'm on a stopover in Hawaii, and correctly alert me for my 4pm meeting when I'm in San Francisco. And it probably should alert me at 4pm San Francisco time even if I'm not there, in case I missed my connecting flight in Hawaii and I want to call in at the correct time. And that last requirement conflicts wit the "I want it to show as 4pm while I'm on a stopover in Hawaii" requirement, because I'm human and messy and I want the impossible without expending any effort to make it happen.
I'm pretty sure there is no "simple solution" for getting the UX right so I can add a meeting in San Francisco on my phone while I'm in Sydney, and have it "just work" without it always bugging me by asking for timezones.
Yeah that's fair, but that's purely a UI/display problem and there is and cannot be any solution that works without context.
Ultimately, if you don't like it, tell your calendar to show it differently.
> It's a 4pm Tuesday meeting
In one timezone, yes.
Apperently you want the times to be shown for when you will be in that timezone. But the calendar doesn't know when you will be in what timezone, and it's such a rare thing that apparently no one made a calendar where you can day "I'll be (mentally) in this timezone from that day and then in that timezone a week later".
So you, your last sentence is right, because that's impossible. That's different from "hard".