This has been an issue on and off over the years, but I have never got a fully working solution.
The problems occur mainly with flights from one time zone to another.
I have a flight for which I enter the start and end times, both local to the airport. However, the destination is in a different time zone.
On my iPhone. I have Time Zone Overide turned off, and while in the destination city, I see 2 times for an event’s details: the local time and the time in the origin.
However, I find that:
- The time in the Event List shows only the origin time, not the local time.
- The reminder alerts at the origin time and not the local time.
This applies to other events which were set before the trip.
The question is What do I need to do to see event times and alerts in the local time?
To complete the story, I add the event on my iMac and then rely on my iPhone to keep me informed. Latest version of all software.
Update
I will be flying overseas in a few months, so I can put my possible solution to the test.
I have set the time zone of the flights to floating, which seemed to work when flying interstate earlier.
To be safe, I have also included the local times in the notes section so I can compare; I will also have the original tickets any way. A few years ago I was caught out by the time zone difference, but, fortunately I was early rather than late.
Update 2
I have just come back from an overseas holiday, which involved two other time zones and daylight saving.
I can safely say that setting all times to floating has ensured that all times are local, and everything works as expected.
I have taken to using floating times for all of my travel times, as well as for all of my automated events. What I need to do now is work our how to make it the default for other events.
Best Answer
I've just given up creating timezoned start and finish times in MacOS Sierra. But in iOS 10 and iOS 11, you can assign a different timezone to start and finish. It turns up correct in my linked iCloud calendar & my OSX calendar the right way, showing the correct duration and all. Time to fix MacOS