Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
I am still looking for a calendar program written by someone who
understands that there are multiple time zones and that when I travel
from one time zone to another I probably want to get up at different
times etc without having the change affect appointments when I return.
Seriously, is it so difficult for someone to understand that when
setting a recurring appointment it is necessary to be able to specify
the time zone so that the correct daylight savings adjustments are made?
I gave up waiting for those features in Outlook after waiting ten
years. But they do indicate just how 'STUCK' software gets.
That's odd - time zones and daylight savings time just seem to work in
all the calendars that I use - (including Outlook and my out-of-the-box
Android smartphone)
As for being a low volume mail user, I am currently using 10Gb of my
15Gb free Gmail allowance. The reason I use Gmail to do my IETF mail
is that I can't wait half an hour for IMAP or POP to sync each time I
want to read mail.
I don't give my work email out nearly as often as my gmail account
which means that I get my corporate email in an acceptable length of time.
Hmmm.... my mailbox alone gets maybe 5000 emails a day - a lot of it
spam of course, but a lot of list traffic and admin messages (I'm
postmaster for our system as well as admin for a bunch of email
lists). The mail on my laptop client (SeaMonkey) and my smartphone are
pretty much always up to date, and if I boot my laptop cold, a few
thousand messages will update within a minute or so. If it takes you
half an hour to sync IMAP then you're doing something very wrong.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra