How to create an event in two different time zones?

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How to create an event in two different time zones?

Hello,

I am traveling a lot and I would like to be able to enter the flight details in iCal - whether on my iPhone, iCloud, i... whatever. The problem is that I cannot manage to enter these details without calculating the time difference. Example:

I am flying on Saturday from Frankfurt to Japan. My flight takes off at 19:00h local German time and arrives in Tokyo at 13:00h local time (in Japan)

I can either specify the time zone for Germany or for Tokyo, but is there a way to enter the event from 19:00h German time to 13:00h Tokyo time?

Thank you very much for your time.

Larry

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jul 31, 2014 12:10 PM

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Answer 1

chuck_3rd

Community Specialist

Aug 2, 2014 6:44 AM in response to Loerincz

Hello Loerincz,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.

The following support article explains the time zone support feature in iCloud.

iCloud: Change your calendar’s time zone

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2677

Take care,

Alex H.

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Loerincz Author

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Aug 4, 2014 8:15 PM in response to chuck_3rd

Hi Alex,

this applies only when the event takes place in one time zone, but in my case I start the event on one time zone and ends in a different time zone. As it is known, the airlines show always the local times on the ticket. Which means that I start my travel at 19:00h German time (UTC +2) and end it at 13:00h Tokyo time (UTC +9). When I create the event I can choose From Date/Time... To Date/Time and below I have Time zone. Ideally I should have two time zones, one for the start and another for the end.

Since this situation only applies to travelling (I can't think of another case right now), I believe that Apple didn't take this into consideration.

Any other thoughts/ideas? Other than manually calculating the difference, of course.

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Loerincz Author

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Aug 4, 2014 9:44 PM in response to chuck_3rd

I just noticed, that Google Calendar offers this possibility - when creating an event, one can choose "Use separate start and end time zones". Is there such a thing in iCal?

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Answer 4

chuck_3rd

Community Specialist

Aug 5, 2014 9:04 AM in response to Loerincz

Hi Loerincz,

Thank you for using the Apple Support Community. Due to the nature of your question you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action

Take care,

Alex H.

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Answer 5

Aug 10, 2014 7:58 AM in response to Loerincz

I Have the same darned problem. I found some way to make the calendars to "float", but for the life of me I can't remember how.

And it is annoying to look at your calendar and not know if the time you are looking at is the ACTUAL time of your appointment in that particular zone, or if it's the time in the time zone you added to appointment. Grrr

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Csound1

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Aug 10, 2014 8:06 AM in response to Loerincz

Go to Calendar>Preferences>Advanced and turn me Zone support on.

This will place a control in Calendar (or iCal) enabling you to view and enter events on your calendar in any time zone you choose.

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Csound1

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Aug 12, 2014 6:23 AM in response to bigalwood

bigalwood wrote:

And it is annoying to look at your calendar and not know if the time you are looking at is the ACTUAL time of your appointment in that particular zone, or if it's the time in the time zone you added to appointment. Grrr

If you read the post above yours you will see how that is done.

Just turn Time Zone support ON.

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