Stop Mac Calendar from changing times with time zone changes.

I don't understand why Calendar defaults to changing the time entered to be different. When one flies to different time zones and I put in times of arrival and departure, the Calendar defaults to making them wrong.

Is there anyway I can get that as the default? Use local time where the event is going to occur?

It is an extra step as I will never use the default that Apple is doing. I can't quite figure out what it is doing, but now all of my times on my trip are wrong.

BTW, I went into the event. There is no selection for time zone. I select arrival for 12:00 and it changes it to 11AM. I am leaving EDT and arriving at CDT. I am not even sure how the Calendar knows where the flight is going to, other than it includes the flight number.

And the same event was imported from Google Calendar and somewhere the times were changed to 5PM to 6:53PM with displayed times of GMT+2. How the heck did anything like that occur?

I want Calendar to completely ignore the time zone.

I have turned on Zone Support. That is what I thought the Apple instructions tell me to do.

When I look at my calendar, it says that my flight will land in a Mountain Time Zone city two hours earlier than it will if I enter it while I am on the east coast.

"are shifted in the calendar to match local time."

" This might sound stupid for a flight". It is horrendous when scheduling travel and trip times and knowing when I have to be at the airport or train station.

Ex: Flight leaves Central time city at 12:45 PM and lands Mountain time city at 3:15 PM. How do I set this up so I can enter the times and it will show up at the correct local time? Right now it tells me that the flight is going to land at 2:15, which is not correct.

Even worse, it changes my return time so that it is now an hour (or two if starting east coast) early.

I then have a flight from Mountain time to the west coast. None of those times in my calendar are anywhere close to correct now.

How do I get Calendar to just leave the times I input alone and not change them?

I had a similar issue when I set up all of my travel times on a trip to Europe. All of the plane and train times were wrong.

"You can turn Timezone support off but it means that when you are in a different timezone from where you live you have to work out the real time of all your Calendar events and note that the calendr alerts will go off at the wrong time."

I am not sure what you mean there. Example: I booked while I am on the east coast, a flight from Mountain to West.

The local times are 10:45AM and arrive 11:05AM. As with all flights, they are the local time.

I accepted an event from the airline for those times. The times that are in my calendar are 5:45PM for departure which isn't even close.

Thanks for that detailed explanation. And what you are describing something that I have no use for and exactly what I want to avoid - I do not want the times changed.

From my original post: "I have entered flight information with times for departure and arrival in the local times. The Mac version of Calendar changes the displayed arrival time by two hours accounting for the change in time zones. I want this to stop."

Your comment: "You can turn Timezone support off but it means that when you are in a different timezone from where you live you have to work out the real time of all your Calendar events and note that the calendr alerts will go off at the wrong time."

That does not apply to what I am looking for. I fly from EDT to Germany, and the airline lists arrival 6 AM and my connection leaves at 9 AM, that is what I enter into my calendar. The calendar changes those times by 6 hours. Now my alerts go off "at the wrong time" for me. That is what I want it to stop.

"That's a really good explanation of how it works. "

And exactly what I want to stop.

From my original post: "I have entered flight information with times for departure and arrival in the local times. The Mac version of Calendar changes the displayed arrival time by two hours accounting for the change in time zones. I want this to stop."

Here is an example: Flight departs from Mountain Time at 12:42 PM. That is what I enter. The Calendar changes the flight time to 1:42 PM. Now I will be an hour late for my flight.

There has to be a simple way to stop this.

My iPhone Calendar is set this way:

My Mac was set this way:

"Then, for the third time, turn off time zone support - untick the box on the your Mac and turn on Time Zone Override. Personally I think it will cause you more problems. "

But what you said was, ""When timezone support is turned on then the time of the event will always be shown at the correct time in your current timezone." I am finding that is not true.

I just got off from texting Apple Support. They also told me to turn on time zone support. When I walked through the steps I did, they did not understand why it did not work. They said that they are investigating.

" Personally I think it will cause you more problems. if you are at your destination and you have calendar reminders for things like regular zoom calls which are in your home time then they will alert you at the wrong time."

I have never mentioned Zoom calls nor meetings as an issue for me. I do not have those to worry about. All I have to worry about is making my connections whether air or train. Having the hotel reservations display on the correct date and not be moved due to time zone issues. That has been my question from the beginning. Telling me my train leaves at the wrong time is the issue as I will miss my train.

A number of people have tried to convince me what to do based on meetings that I might have. Or zoom calls. Nope. My question from the beginning has been flight times, arrival and departure of connections, plus when my train in another country is booked for.