Time Zones/Reminders

That IS time zone support. If it remained at 8 am when you moved to a time zone 3 hours later, that would be NOT supporting Time Zones. You have it backwards.

Just this past week I set a flight check in reminder for my wife on a shared Reminder calendar. She was leaving Los Angeles (PDT), I was in Denver (MDT). She needed to check in at 12:25(PDT)/1:25(MDT) PM, so I set the reminder at 1:25 P.M. It went off for me at 1:25 and for her at 12:25. If reminders didn't support time zones, it would have gone off for her at 1:25 as well.

What you want is for the reminders to go off at the same time no matter where you are, i.e. for the app not to take into account the time zone. I think the app is tied to Calendar. If you turn off time zone support in the Calendar app will it not also apply to Reminders?

Time Zone support does NOT work for Reminders. It works ONLY for calendar events. If you have a reminder on your phone or watch set for 8am it will show 11am when you move 3 time zones. This is NOT the case for Calendars. Time Zone support does not work the same way with the Reminders app.

If you change time zones ANY reminder in the Reminders APP, not anything connected to Calendar, the time for the reminder will change. This occurs if time zone support for Calendars is on or off. Do a test. Set a recurring reminder for 8am everyday in the iPhone Reminder app, not calendar. This is used as it nicely works with OS3 for the Apple Watch. After you set a reminder, go and change the time zone 3 hours forward. You will see that the daily reminder is now at 11am, yet all Calendar events remain the same. If you turn of Time Zone support off then calendar times will also change. However, the reminders on the REMINDERS app do NOT act the same way. The two , Reminder App and Calendar App do not seem to be related at all.

Time zone support works great, and if you regularly deal with multiple time zones, it's a Godsend. If you live in one place, rarely travel, and never deal with people outside of your time zone, then sure, it's unnecessary.

I have a video conference scheduled with a client in Los Angeles at Noon. That day I happen to be in Chicago. It automatically shows on my Calendar at 2:00. If I did it the way you suggest, it would say my meeting was at Noon. I'd have to remember that the client is in Los Angeles and two weeks ago we set the conference in their time, so I need to actually wait until 2 PM. I'd lose track of that very quickly.

BTW, it's especially great for flight scheduling that spans time zones. Shows the proper takeoff and arrival time no matter the time zone you have to be in. I see my associate taking of from Los Angeles at 2:50 when I'm in Denver. He sees that same flight on the shared calendar taking off at 1:50. Without timezone support, this would be a huge mess.

Kip

Thanks for the reply. This has been an issue for a long time. With Reminders now standard on the watch it does create some issues. If you ever find a solution, please post. Many thanks.

Yes, they really seem to be struggling to deal with time zones in a way that actually makes sense to anyone.

It used to be that alarms in the Clock app would be subjected to time zone adjustment. So if you like waking up at 7 AM and you travel to a different time zone, suddenly your everyday morning alarm is set to some weird time. Apparently they figured out that that never makes sense, because now alarms in the Clock app go off at the time they say they are, wherever you are at that moment. I was please a few years ago when they finally figured that out.

But now the reminders app is really broken with respect to time zones. I don't want to turn off time zone support altogether, but now the reminders app works the way the alarms used to be: it changes the apparent time of reminders, but doesn't tell you the time zone information... Or let you change it! Even though time zone support is on.

It would make sense for reminders to work the way alarms do. It would also make sense for reminders to work the way calendar events do. But instead reminders have their own crippled version of the functionality, which makes them unreliable to the point of being essentially useless for travelers.

Not good if you were using them for medication reminders...

Glad to see I am not the only one with this issue. If I have time zone override on then an event on my calendar for 8am will STILL be 8am if I change time zone 3 hours ahead. However, a reminder on my iPhone and watch to take meds at 8am will now be at 11am. Reminders AND events should be operating the same way. Have searched discussions all over to find an answer and there seems to be none.

Yeah, I believe you. I was only speculating they may be related in that, at least for me, Reminders and Calendar both use the same iCloud calendars/lists.

So you want a reminder like "take medication when I wake at 6 am", that will remind you at 6 am to take your meds, regardless of where you are. Yeah, I can see why that would be a pain if there is no way to achieve that. However, I can see the challenge for Apple, as that's competing with reminders like "check in for flight" which are very time zone dependent.

Seems they need time zone support on at least a calendar by calendar/list by list basis rather than app wide.

My problem is that phone is set on mountain time but my reminders come it at a different time zone. Appt at 10 reminder shows 11??