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Re:How to save datetimes for future events by kbenson on Monday March 23, 2015 @12:47PM (#9251830)
Yes, whether the location/context of the event is relative to you or some other location. I.e. Someone outside Chile creates an event to track the start of a football game in Chile before the change mentioned in the article.

What you really want is an absolute time, and a localized timezone that applies to the event (which may not be your own).

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Re:How to save datetimes for future events by ska on Monday March 23, 2015 @12:54PM (#9251874)
Ah, I wasn't clear enough ... I was thinking in that case the canonical calender event would be encoded in time in Chile, even if the local calender was in Germany or whatever. Looking back that could have been written much better so I've added a parenthetical.
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