I am confused by the time zone settings in the Apple calendars, especially by the wording.
I book a date here in Melbourne (UTC+10 ignoring DST) for an event in the Netherlands (UTC+2). I want to enter the event as 06:00 here, but really mean 06:00 in the Netherlands local time. The calendar is in iCloud.
This happens all the time when booking flights — the times are always in local time, which is, of course, appropriate.
What is the correct setting in the iPhone and on the MacBook for this to work? I think the wording has changed, but I never thought it was clear.
Currently I add the local time in the notes just in case. I was caught out in the past when the event showed the wrong time (fortunately it meant I was too early for the flight).
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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 :
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.