ICal: editing event times broken

Can anybody confirm the following iCal behavior:
Create new event in iCal, try to edit the time to let's say hour 10.
If you type quick - no issue,
BUT
if you pause a bit between the 1 and the 0 (let's say 2 seconds) ...
then iCal automatically expands the 1 to 01 and then the 0 to 00 and you end up having the event starting at midnight, not at 10.
(by the way, have more severe issues with internet access and secondary mouse button releasing automatically after 3 seconds when using my foot switches attached via swifty USB switch interface http://www.orin.com/access/swifty/)

Dennis, it's not you. iCal has handled time zone changes like this for some time now. As far as I can tell, Apple considers this a feature, not a bug. You see, iCal is trying to be helpful, so if you're normally in the US/Eastern time zone, and schedule something for noon, if you travel to the US/Pacific time zone, it will show the same event at 9:00 am. Technically, the same time is maintained, but unfortunately, 90% of users don't want this adjustment made for them because we don't think about time that way.
The above describes how iCal works with Time Zone Support OFF. Yes, even with Time Zone Support OFF, it auto-adjusts times when you change time zones.
When Time Zone Support is ON, it basically works the same way, except that instead of all your events being associated with one time zone (e.g. US/Eastern), you can assign different a time zone to each individual event (e.g. US/Pacific or US/Mountain). When Time Zone Support is OFF, iCal still assigns time zones to each event, but it's hidden from the user.

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