>> As a proponent of iCalendar - a well established and successful IETF >> technology - I would like us to use it for all event announcements and >> the like. I know the tools folks have support for it for the main >> meetings, so some of the necessary pieces are available. > >+1 If it could help us get the time zones right, that would be fabulous. I've pretty much given up trying to explain that "PST" is not the local time in San Francisco in the summer, it really does matter, and Paris is not always nine hours ahead of them, even among technically savvy people who should know better. The most reliable I've found at this point is to ask where they are and the local time the meeting will start, so if the local time and UTC disagree, it's invariably the UTC that's wrong. R's, John PS: It does not help that products from a large vendor in the Pacific time zone send out invites that proudly announce that they don't get the summer time changes right.