Can I make "Floating" a default setting in Time Zone Support?

Hello,

I have the same problem. I just moved from San Francisco to Warsaw and travel around the world for my work. I would like to be able to have my entries made in California remain at the same time even though I am in Poland now. (and doing this without having to keep me calendar on Pacific Coast time zone.)
Plus, I want to have all my calendar entries be floating entries by default, so that I will not recreate this problem as I travel around. I do the time zone calculations in my head and make my calendar entries for the time of the place I plan to be when I am doing that entry. I don't want to have iCal automatically shifting my entries around.
Right now the only way I know how to solve these two problems is to by hand make every new entry a floating entry. And to turn off my time zone support and then go into my calendar and do two things: 1) manually move the entries 9 hours to correct the times, and then to manually change the entry to a floating entry.

This is a lot more time and aggravation than I want.
Any way around this?

Ike

There is, unfortunately, no way to make floating the default, BUT there is a work around.
First turn on 'timezone support' then set your time zone to 'GMT+00:00' Do this by clicking on all the time zones East of the United States until you get to 'GMT+00:00. That way where ever you go and whatever time zone you are in, there will never be times added or subtracted from you iCal, no matter what time your computer clock says.

I'm struggling with this as well. I just moved from US Central to Eastern timezones, and when I changed my time in the system preferences, all of my iCal events moved one hour later. Turning on "time zone support" only helps the problem if I keep my iCal time zone as Central, an abnormally inelegant "solution."
I'll post back if I can find anything.

See this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10434531&#10434531 for the answer to the iPhone side of it. You have to turn off the Iphone calendar time zones as well. It's working the way I way it to now I think.

I may have found the best workaround. In system preferences, DESELECT "Set Date & Time Automatically." Turn OFF "Time Zone Support" in iCal. When you travel, DO NOT change your "Time Zone" in the "Date & Time" pane of system preferences, just simply move the time BY HAND to the correct time. Please give this a try and report back!

Unfortunately, it seems it doesn't sync to well with iPhone using my method.... events are two hours off for some reason. Argh!