Calendar events trigger by UTC/GMT

Hi
I travel internationally from time to time and it would be really good if I could set **one** of my calendars so that events are triggered by UTC/GMT not matter which timezone I was in.
I have a sort of work around of setting Lighting timezone to London but that is then right across all my calendars which means any local event is triggered at the wrong time. So that does not work for me.
If it's not already there and I've missed the setting, could the developers consider
1) Picking up the time zone from the OS (Windows in my case) as I change this (Windows time) on arrival in a country. I always seem to forget that I need to change it in Lighting as well!
2) A setting to override the default timezone (set by Lighting TimeZone setting) of a calendar to something else
Thanks
Geoff

Turns out the problem disappeared when I installed the final release of Windows 7, guess thats why no one had the same problem. Problem solved.

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hi,
i am vinod from knowledge systems pvt ltd. we are the partners with the iplanet india for customer support.
problem description :
m fetchcomponents_by_range,m fetchevents_by_id,m fetchtodos_by_id returns the event dtstart & dtend in GMT and not the timezone (tzid) requested
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http://localhost:portnumber/storeevents.wcap?id=n38tew98wbhhv95s&calid=userA&tzid=America/Indianapolis&rid=0&dtstart=20020419T050000Z&duration=PT1H0M&summary=eventtest&fmt-out=text/xml
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dtStart = 1019210400 (20020419T100000Z) [19-Apr-02 10:00AM GMT] (isDate = 0)
dtEnd = 1019214000 (20020419T110000Z) [19-Apr-02 11:00AM GMT] (isDate = 0)
NOTE : in the WCAP command i had specified the time in America/Indianapolis i,e 0500 hrs behind GMT(-0500) hence the server stores the dtstart & dtend in the GMT which is perfect as explained in the docs.
Now for retreving the same event i execute the following command
http://localhost:portnumber/fetchcomponents_by_range.wcap?id=n38tew98wbhhv95s&rid=0&calid=vt&tzid=America/Indianapolis&fmt-out=text/xml
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<START>20020419T100000Z</START>
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For example, if a command such as storeevents or fetchcomponents_by_range
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2. The following two commands, which already have the tzid parameter, have been modified:
m storeevents
m storetodos
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Jean-Philippe,
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