ICal time zone issue??

I received a meeting invitation from exchange, my Mail on my mac correctly puled it into iCal and adjusted the time by 2 hrs (since this was sent from CA and I am in Houston at the moment, and have adjusted the time zone on my mac). So far so good. But when I synced m iPhone (that has been on the whole time I am in Houston) the time for this event showed up as Pacific time not Central time. The previous sync I did was in San Jose (where I live) but I don't see how that would matter.
Had i been back in San Jose and done a sync, then gone to Houston I think the iPhone does update Calendar event times for the local time, so what is going on here??

On your iPhone, drill down Settings>Mail,Contacts, Calendars and drop down to Calendars. My Time Zone was ON and set to an offset of GMT, I turned it OFF and my appointments are at the correct time on my iPhone.

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