Dave, i am confused by your statements as well.
... My users are stating that during standard time and DST the event's time does not change ...
The event's time of recurring events? Maybe we have missed an update, but the behavior of our large installation is exactly as i described: I added a recurring event for every day starting on march 1 running until end of April at 8am. The generated events are from April 1 to April 24 at 8 am, then starting at March 25 (when our DST started) it switches to 9am until end of April.
I fixed this. It was in acs-events but there was no upgrade script. I checked in an upgrade on Friday that should be in the next release of acs-events.
But real people couldn't care less.
It depends: in an international setup this makes perfectly sense. It is actually the only possible way, when e.g. three people in three different time-zones work together. These real people don't care about the time-zones the other people are in, but they want to meet in a chat at the same time.
Right this is totally true. The calendar software (and especially the Oracle datamodel) does not allow setting of the timezone of an event. So you can only enter an event in the system timezone. (It does not use the user's preferred timezone.)
So I am just reporting that I had users complain that their evets mysteriously changed time on March 11
That is the display of the events on the calendar changed, but the schduled time they expected to see on the calendar did not.
Let me clarify again, the scheduled time of the event does not change. ie: 9am EST, and 9am EDT. To the computer these are different times. But the users want to see "9am".
