Default timezone of wiki calendar

I want to change the default timezone of wiki calendar. It is set to "America/Los Angeles" by default. Each user can change it through setting but it is confusing to new people who access it. The calendar is accessible to anybody. I am using Server 2.2.1.

As far as I can see from looking at the saved CalDAV data, iCal and Sunbird save timezone info for each calendar entry whereas the WebCalendar saves none.
This is fine if you are working only with the web calendar or you specify no timezone data in your external client (iCal, Sunbird, etc), but is unusable otherwise.
There are four things that need to be addressed here as I see it.
1) The iCal Server software needs to use the timezone info from the settings on the server machine to set its internal values.
2) The web calendar software needs to use (1) as a default for all new web calendar accounts.
3) The web UI needs to have a way to set a timezone value in the "Settings" page of the users and the groups.
4) The web calendar needs to read and save this timezone data with each entry to/from the CalDAV server.
Until Apple does this the system is unusable except in tightly controlled environments as more diligent users will set their timezone data in other applications such as iCal, Sunbird, or others that are coming out.
Any comments on this from Apple Tech?
JM

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