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[James Tatum <jtatum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Johnston correctly pointed out that my comment is not at all
helpful, so I'll elaborate. This is what the 'iCal feed' link gives you
on http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/273/detail/ical/:

DTSTART:20100821T110000Z
DTEND:20100821T160000Z

The Z tacked on indicates correctly that the times above are in UTC.
This makes perfect sense for someone tracking loco events across
multiple time zones, but since you can't specify the correct time zone
of the event, this event shows up as 4AM on my calendar.

So, yes, the Z could be removed to specify that the event is local time,
but it isn't really the right solution since locos are all over the
world and some locos span time zones.

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Time of events is shown in UTC, not local time
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610416
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Status in LoCo Directory: Confirmed

Bug description:
The events page of the loco directory shows times in UTC (i.e. +0000 timezone), example: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/202/detail/ It should instead show times in local time for each loco. Many people coming to events are going to be coming from the local area, and will all be in the same timezone, so there is no need to include the timezone information. Secondly, timezones are confusing for many people, and showing event start times in UTC as opposed to local time forced people to do mental arithmetic when they see an event page. There is very little benefit from showing all times in UTC, and many drawbacks. Local time (for the LoCo) has more benefits and less drawbacks.