ICal changed my appointment times

Dear All, can someone explain why this happened? I restarted my PB (Tiger 10.4.6) for the first time in this time zone (CET daylight saving). When I booted iCal it showed most appointments as one hour ahead of their actual time.
I have time zone support turned off (it was on some time ago, but has been off for months). Some of the times were entered while I was in the UK (GMT +1), and some here in France. All changed.
This is a little alarming as some of the appointments are flights I have to catch. Is there somehting I am doing wrong? I expect iCal to keep all my appointment times exactly as I set them.
James
PowerBook G4 15 aluminium Mac OS X (10.4.6) Ultra spec
PowerBook G4 15 aluminium Mac OS X (10.4.6) Ultra spec

I am having the same issue with iPhone and Outlook on WinXP SP2. It is not all of my calender meetings, only some.
I verified the timezone settings as described in this thread. Settings | General | Time Zone Support = Yes. Time Zone = Columbus, USA (Columbus, Ohio?) I also tried other cities in the Eastern Time Zone since it was not clear if Columbus = Ohio or Georgia.
My desktop computer is set to Eastern Time Zone in the Date/Time Settings of Windows XP. Hours & Minutes are in synch between iPhone and Desktop.
I have also tried the synch option under the Info tab in iTunes to replace Calendar data on the next synch. No luck.
Suggestions?
Michael

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Once again I missed an important meeting as I had entered it into my iPhone so that event is to start at 10 AM. Last night I flew to this city which is two hours ahead of my town. So what again happened is that iCal just decided to change the time of my appointment to 12 AM.
Why on earth would iCal asume that I would eneter the event into it in my hometowns time? I mean, when agreeing on the phone with a client, you do not say I'll be there 10 AM my time. You obviously say "ok let us meet at 10 AM".
So how do I stop this from happening.

I was having the same problem and spent some time on the phone with apple today.(new computer is under apple care). Tried a ton of stuff with different folks and ultimately I (well, me and 3 apple specialists) was able to solve this issue.
Here's the break down:
1. Quit Mail, Calendar and Messages.
2. Open: System Preference -> Mail, Contacts & Calendars
3. Delete all your google accounts (using the little minus button below your account list)
4. Restart your computer.
5. Re-add your google accounts. (Obviously, keep the calendar box checked).
6. Open calendar and wait for your google info to populate.
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Events I created while I was having the problem still had the problem.
I simply deleted those broken events and recreated them with refreshed settings.
I've only had this working for a few hours so I'm not certain it will stay working forever.
But for now it is a relief.
I realize deleting and re-adding the accounts is annoying but it's a lot less frustrating than seeing UTC every time you add an event.
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Never ever ever ever change my appointment times in iCal!

I have read dozens of posts. I have played with the settings and my behaviour until I am sick.
In >30 years of using both paper and electronic diaries, I HAVE NEVER ONCE SET A TIME FOR ANY OTHER TIME ZONE APART FROM THE RELEVANT ONE FOR MY MEETING!!
I just was late for another meeting having flown in from the UK to Prague.
I am running MacOS 10.6.8 on a MacBook Pro
Following recomendations from Apple itself, I turned off the hopelessly muddled and confusing 'Time Zone Support' (which never worked in practice as things that synch or when you add appts in a hurry you never see the dialog to set time zone for the specific event)
1/ The 'automatic time change' did NOT change my time zone. (and yes, I WAS on the internet) I had to do this manually
2/ In doing this manual change ONCE AGAIN ALL MY MEETINGS WERE CHANGED BY 1 HOUR!!
Imagine my embarassment when my client shows up 1 hour 'early' literally catching me with my pants down (I was in the toilet) and unprepared. Joked with him that he was quite keen - he takes offense that he was spot on time.
Put in a new option in Preferences: NEVER CHANGE TIME (or word it as "PRESERVE TIMES AS ENTERED")
Turn it on by default
Just fix this. Obviously the programmers behind this 'feature' (a pain in the backside for many years) never had the real world experience of travelling between time zones.
Just fix this. I cannot believe that the hundreds of complaints I have read about this asinine feature are groundless.
Just fix this. You have exacerbated the problem a hundred-fold by encouraging us all to use our iCal as the root to which we synch our iPads, iPhones, and 3rd party calendar systems.
Just fix this.
Gordon Howell, [email protected]
35 year IT veteran, Apple user since 1980

See this:
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I have moved back to Nairobi from London and need to change the default time zone on iCal. However, when I do it changes the appointment time.
Is there any way I can say 'from this point on, I am in a different time zone, please don't change the times of my appointments and get the alarm times right on iCal and when synchronising with my iTouch'.

1) you have to do it for each event.
2) as for time display: go to system preferences>date&time and select 24-hour clock rather than am/pm, then go to system preferences>international>formats>times>customize, then customize the short, medium, long and full to show the 24hr setting - also remove the AM/PM of course and drag whatever field is appropriate as in hour, minutes..
hope this helps

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Thank you for the quick replies. It is not totally clear to me, but it sounds as though the iPhone may be the same as the BlackBerry. If so, then I have to set a time AND make sure that, at the time the appointment is entered, the time zone is properly set for the location of the meeting. The Treo's meeting time was independent of the time zone that was in effect when the appointment time was entered. There was no special setting for it, but there is a setting to either keep the desired time zone in effect regardless of where the phone was located or to let the network adjust the time zone whenever a trip was made. It automatically took the network time from wherever it was so the clock was always right and the alarm for an upcoming meeting would go off at the proper time even if the appointment was entered while set for another time zone. The statement "Time Zone Support always shows event dates and times in the time zone selected for calendars" doesn't really say how it affects previously set appointments. It will only become clear when someone who travels a lot says how it works in practice.

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Hello all,
First of all, let me preface my question by admitting that I'm new to the Mac world, transitioning from MS environment. So please, be a bit patient
Now, on to my problem:
I have created events in iCal and I can not change the time for any event. The time that's always displayed is 15:54! I have checked the time zone setting to on/off to se if it makes a difference, but to no avail. I have also gone into preferences and under the General Tab, the Day starts at and the Day ends at: show three (3) selections; Noon, 15:54, Midnight !!???
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aldanmack wrote:
How could this be a good thing when looking at appointments at a glance in day view and you come to a screeching stop because the TIME is invisible, while in month view time isn't there at all!!
This is actually a run-on sentence, so it's a little difficult to tell what you mean.
Time is visible in the appointments at a glance in day view. I think you acknowledge this and agree.
Time is also visible in week view. (You didn't mention week view.)
Time is not visible in month view. You could see the time for a specific event by clicking on it.
Similarly, time is not visible in year view.
It makes sense that as you lose fidelity, you lose detail.

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We cannot figure out whats happening. We tried to reproduce the problem but we couldn't. Anyway we can see:
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Unfortunately for us, several calendar atendees remained not "datechanged". To summarize show extracts from user "josa" that is OK and "jralemeda" who cried not having his calendar modified (but he was not the unique). Apparently a modification occured 2008-04-08 08:02 for both!!! Interesting... I wonder what made the modification (Outlook Connector at the users end or Outlook Connector at the owners end).
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LAST-MODIFIED:20080408T080255Z^M
X-NSCP-ORIGINAL-DTSTART:20080408T100000Z^M
X-NSCP-DTSTART-TZID:Europe/Paris^M
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LAST-MODIFIED:20080408T080257Z^M
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X-NSCP-DTSTART-TZID:Europe/Paris^M
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iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.5
iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.3.5
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