ICloud – Create event in iCloud calendar for different time zone

If you have a number of events you want to enter and you have their times in another zone, it's very handy to use Calendar's time zone support.

First, go to Calendar->Preferences, and click Turn on time zone support.

This will enable a dropdown in the titlebar of your Calendar window:

You can then use this menu to change the display of everything in your calendar to a new time zone. Pull it down and select Eastern time (or whatever other time zone or city your event is in), and Calendar will convert all your times to that zone.

At this point, you can start entering events, using the times listed in the program for the event. You will also see a new detail in the event detail popup:

This shows what time zone the event is in.

Once you've entered all the events, turn the time zone back. That will display all your events in your own time zone. If you are syncing with your phone (which knows what time zone it is in) all the events will remind you at the right time.

I have spent a lot of time in order to have clean calendar entries for flights over multiple time zones. I couldn't find any good solution, because iOS and OS X only support ONE time zone per event (by the way, so does Microsoft Exchange).

The best solution I found was to create two events :

• One for the take-off, specified in its local time zone.
• One for the landing, also in its local time zone.

And when your phone or computer changes time zone, you have the correct local time.

In a perfect world, an event should be able to have 2 time zones (one for the start time and one for the end time). Apple could do it, but it would probably break compatibility with other applications like Outlook.